Christmas Amish Star, part 3 is up! Ready to look at some fabrics?

Hopefully you are enjoying this series helping you learn how to draft and make your own Amish Star block in Christmas fabrics. I've sure had fun putting it together. Grab a cuppa and come watch my process for picking complimentary fabrics to go in this block...

Around the Block with Judy Hopkins: 200 Rotary-Cut Blocks in 6 Sizes

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First Quilt - Swapping Stars

After taking a long arm class last Fall, I quilted 2 quilts in order to get a little practice in. I also gave a top to a friend from the class so she could practice - what a treat to have her hand it back to me so all I had to do was put on the binding! Swapping Stars was a top that was ready for borders. I had a few extra blocks and decided I'd make a pillow tuck as well - they weren't my best blocks but they are made from some of my favorite fabrics and I decided they weren't THAT bad, particularly since I'm keeping this quilt. It's a very bright quilt, made by me and my quilting friends on a Yahoo group as a row robin. I went for a pretty simple block called Swapper's Star from Quilters Cache but I redrafted the instructions since my friends would be making 7 individual blocks instead of strip-piecing several of the same fabrics. I also asked the ladies to do something unusual - set it on point. I drafted instructions for this and they did a te

Pioneer Braid is quilted!

So we've made it through Spring Break around here - took the whole week off to play with my kiddos and get Pioneer Braid quilted. Happy to say, it went great! My folks came for a few days so I could toddle off to the quilt shop guilt-free! First to decide on setting... Finally decided that the up and down pattern didn't make me too seasick after all. Left the 3 inch strip border on the center row and went with 2 inch strips between the remaining rows. I like how that turned out. Now my original plan was a solid navy border and going to bed before midnight. Around 5 PM I got this wild hair of an idea...piano keys. Now mind you, I still had the backing to prep and I didn't have ANY pre-cut bricks left. I'd literally used every single one I had won in the auction, plus many of my own scraps. You can see my "audition border" for the piano keys at the top - I only made it 10 bricks long, telling myself that if I didn't like it, I'd go back to the s

BIL 9-Patches Surrounded

Back again with a progress report and more pictures. While summertime isn't the ideal time for me to get quilting done, I was proud that I made time to finish up this top and get it quilted. It's hanging from the railing at the top of my stairs waiting for binding...queued up right behind Star Mountain and Pioneer Braid. Someone is getting this for Christmas and it looks a whole lot better than this now! First a little backstory.

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