I am sure it will be beautiful, but it won't bee on my list as it is too small for these old fingers to deal with.

Funny someone mentioned the Dear Jane quilt. I would love, love, love to do one but do not have any of the skills (zero experience at this point but hopefully some day) necessary to make the curved blocks which are well over half of them.

This Omigosh quilt is really just a handful of basic blocks so to me it is much more doable. I also want to do this one: http://www.snowyriverquilts.com/cgi-...d=1#fhd102_jpg

This would for me be complete insanity but you are the one choosing.

I have a very urgent desire to start cutting 1" strips. very urgent!!!

I've started making some 9patch blocks with the idea of doing a scrappy "Omigosh". The pieces are small however, and I'm struggling with keeping my seams uniform. I could use some tips on starching my fabric. I've never used starch before... so, what type and how? Also, how should I press my seams? Thanks, everybody!

I'm a fan of Mary Ellen's Best Press for starching. I'm not making this quilt, but a scrappy one made up of 2 1/2" four patches, half square triangles and squares along with 4" squares, so I'm dealing with a lot of small pieces too. The Best Press really does help. I also use a Steady Betty for pressing and the pieces stick to the pressing surface because of the material Steady Betty is made from. This means that when I'm pressing there is very little movement of the patches if I happen to iron rather than press. Hope this helps!

KSCrafter, what a timely post you have. I am the post originator and have been preparing my fabrics to begin my Ohmigosh quilt but was going to post a new one to ask for some tips as well. I did prepare quite a while back a sample of both the 9 patch and shoo fly blocks to see how they will come together. I pressed the tiny 9 blocks with the seams towards the dark (non-background) fabric so the seams for the 3 rows would nest together. That works fine. I got the seams for the 9 patch block to work well. It is the shoofly block that is a little tricky. I will post photos later tonight if my daughter can load them for me.

Here are photos of my sample block and the fabrics I am going to use. I took a picture of the back side to see how "intense" the seams are with such small pieces.

i have one more quilt to finish then I can start mine. I saw your first post and a picture of the quilt and had to do it. I can't wait to get started. Any tips before I start.

I saw blocks from this quilt that a friend had started at a retreat in March. So, I worked it up on EQ7 and here are my first two blocks. My strips are 1.5 inches (small enough for me) and the little subblocks that form the 9 patch are 3 inches finished. The whole 9 patch will be 9 inch when finished. Not sure if that was the size of the any of the components on the pattern as I don't have it and don't intend to buy it since easy to draw on EQ7. I am thinking batiks would be real nice..............