Rhonda's Boston Blocks Tutorial
09-18-2014, 03:05 PM
#52
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: New England
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Hi Rhonda,
I am new to the board and to quilting. I have been looking at the tutorials and decided to try your Boston Star Quilt Block. Your instructions are very clear and easy for a new quilter. Will get some fabric tomorrow and start right away. Thank you for the tutorial
I am new to the board and to quilting. I have been looking at the tutorials and decided to try your Boston Star Quilt Block. Your instructions are very clear and easy for a new quilter. Will get some fabric tomorrow and start right away. Thank you for the tutorial
10-05-2015, 06:56 AM
#54
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Rocky Mountains of Idaho
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Hello Rhonda ~ Oh where or where have I been and missed this wonderful tutorial? Can't wait to put my orphan bits and pieces on the feed dogs to try this technique! Is your e-book still available? Please free to PM to me if promotions are not allowed in the threads.
07-24-2024, 06:59 AM
#55
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Dallas area, Texas, USA
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Soon after I joined Quilting Board I saw this tutorial and put Boston Star on my bucket list. I have yet to make one, but I'm still thinking I will. I thought I'd take a minute to write a comment in the hope of making it a little more likely that newbies will notice this and be inspired.
What brought it to mind was finding this block among the ones being offered on OESD for embroidery machines. Yay, now I don't even have to be able to sew straight. They call it "Split Quarter Square Triangle" and offer two sizes. They have other blocks as well, such as flying goose and hst. These are stitch and flip quilt blocks and can be done with scraps exactly as Rhonda shows, but in the hoop. Aside from having to deal with tearaway stabilizer, they provide an easy way to get perfect accuracy. I'm not suggesting that anyone should buy an embroidery machine just for this purpose, however. That's not an economical or even necessarily easy way to sew quilts, but if you already have one this is another good use for it. BTW, I'm not necessarily promoting OESD. Other embroidery sites, such as Ann the Gran offer similar blocks.
Rhonda's tutorial is worthwhile for other types of blocks. The concept of sewing scraps together and then trimming the seams and cutting the square is a lot like foundation paper piecing, but without the paper. Thanks, Rhonda!
What brought it to mind was finding this block among the ones being offered on OESD for embroidery machines. Yay, now I don't even have to be able to sew straight. They call it "Split Quarter Square Triangle" and offer two sizes. They have other blocks as well, such as flying goose and hst. These are stitch and flip quilt blocks and can be done with scraps exactly as Rhonda shows, but in the hoop. Aside from having to deal with tearaway stabilizer, they provide an easy way to get perfect accuracy. I'm not suggesting that anyone should buy an embroidery machine just for this purpose, however. That's not an economical or even necessarily easy way to sew quilts, but if you already have one this is another good use for it. BTW, I'm not necessarily promoting OESD. Other embroidery sites, such as Ann the Gran offer similar blocks.
Rhonda's tutorial is worthwhile for other types of blocks. The concept of sewing scraps together and then trimming the seams and cutting the square is a lot like foundation paper piecing, but without the paper. Thanks, Rhonda!
07-26-2024, 01:47 AM
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it's been quite a while since anybody contributed a new one, but the old ones are still there.
https://www.quiltingboard.com/tutorials-f10/
https://www.quiltingboard.com/tutorials-f10/
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