I made a lone star and it volcanoed on me too, but some one had told me to use a rubber mallet and wrap some thing around a brick and give it a good whack. But I did not do that. Some one else had said you will have to take out a few stitches and adjust them and such. Well I did the best I could and once I put it in the bed and smoothed it out it was fine. I'm wondering if on the center star when you make it, if you should iron the seam open as there really is a lot of bulk there. Eleanor Burn has a book comming out called Radient Star and it is a lone star pattern and I bet she will have a solution in that book. I plan to order it. Maybe I'll make another lone star. Yours is so pretty and I would leave it or try to adjust the stiching a little bit in the center as you already have a lot done on this one that it would be a shame to have to take the whole thing apart. Good luck, Huggies, Fay