50 Fab Paper-Pieced Stars
10-24-2013, 07:02 PM
#2752
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: northern ontario
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awwww can I join in....I`ve already started a few stars a couple months ago....would be fun...always better to sew with friends.....
Please join us in working through Caraol Doak's book "50 Fabulous Paper-Pieced Stars". Starting the first week in January we will be making one star a week, starting with Alabama and ending in December with Wyoming. If you have this book, please join us. there will be no patterns or tutorials given and there is no sign ups required. Do as few or as many as you like. We would love to see your beautiful stars so please post their picture here.
and the book is on my sewing desk
11-02-2013, 10:07 PM
#2755
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 888
Ok, I see another run of the fifty blocks is gonna start in January....will it be the stars again or another book? Maybe it is because I am up waaaaay too late that I am not finding the answering skimming through the pages.....This would be so fun. It would also keep me focused on something and not let the time fly, like years, in between blocks.
11-03-2013, 05:16 AM
#2757
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Iowa
Posts: 2,563
Yes, I got approval to start a new thread. I am planning to post it around December 1st so that people who haven't started can make plans for Jan. For those who have, they can keep working through where they are. If anyone has finished and wants to try out some of the "mixed" blocks, they could do one of those each week and end up with a completely different quilt! 
11-04-2013, 05:34 PM
#2758
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Queensland Australia
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Went to the stationery store this morning and had the first 10 blocks reduced in size. I am planning on making my blocks 10 inches. Having made 6 inch and 8 inch blocks in previous BOM's I thought 10 inch would be a nice easy size. I am also thinking that 12 inch blocks would make a huge quilt that would not require sashing and I plan on adding sashing to these blocks. I hope that makes sense
11-05-2013, 04:13 AM
#2759
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Fairfield, OH
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Mirabelle, I did all 50 stars and added about 1 1/2 inch sashing. It made a large queen sized quilt. It is probably almost a king size. I love how it came out. I actually used 49 blocks in the quilt. I am making a wall hanging out of the last block. I am making 4 of the block to use in the wall hanging. I have 3 finished and the wall hanging is sitting in my UFO pile. I think it is the Vermont block.
I look forward to seeing all of the pretty blocks.
I look forward to seeing all of the pretty blocks.
11-05-2013, 08:48 AM
#2760
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Brewerton, NY
Posts: 2,489
I only finished 36, and at that point realized that I'd never make it into that large of a quilt, so I made it into three lap tops, one for me, my daughter and daughter in law. So there are enough blocks left for me to make one more lap size, or something else. Like a wall hanging, or some for the backing.
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