Originally Posted by JNCT14

I made this for my dad for Christmas. The block has insets that I had to hand piece in, and I was worried that the block wasn't laying flat. I posated the question to the forum and got a lot of good advice - the best was to just quilt it into submission! I did exactly that - when 4 blocks were put together, they made sort of a circle which I FMQ'd using a spiral pattern. I outlined each remaining star, again with FMQ (I need to get better at FMQ!!!!!). Rather than quilt the border, I 'wrote' all the things that I remembered that were specific to things I did or learned from my dad. (example: 'Special Memories; Boston University graduation weekend'). It came out very nicely and he was so pleased he cried!