I am doing some research leading to an instruction sheet about sewing multiple points.

I'm having difficulty finding info in any of the current quilt books. I am assuming that differing methods are not copyrighted. All the current instructions appear to avoid multiple points and reduce the designs down to four points rather than the 6,8,10 and above. My current project has 12 points that come together in the center and I have pieced designs with 16 points.

Do any of you have references you might share with me.

I have not started going through my older quilt books which might address the subject- such as the Giant Dahlia

Check out Eleanor Burns. She's got a way of doing those multiple points to get them to lay flat. I haven't mastered it so I'm not help but she's good at it and you can go to her website for free videos.

They have a new "tool" that looks like a bg rubber mallet and it is used to "hammer" down the fabric. It got a good review.

Can you PP them. They would come out wonderful if PP.

The way I learned to do multiple points is to fan them and then use a tailor's clapper after steam pressing to make them flat. This works the best of any method I've tried. It would be great if you found a great way to master this!

I press the seams open, where the blocks are joined together.
When I was making the OBW's with cutebuns cass, I had a little bowl of water next to my iron. I dipped a finger in the water and put a drop right where the seams all met in the center on the back and front, and then pressed it dry. I had really nice centers that were very flat :wink

http://www.jinnybeyer.com/quilttips/...x.cfm?axis_v=2

Jinny Beyer has a good reference for hand piecing.