Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Today and probably the rest of the month will be my tiny Lemoyne stars up on my wall. This is one of my Git-R-Done for this month They are small Finish size will be 3 inches. They are not that hard because I am using Deb Tucker's Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star Tool. Here is a link to a YOUTube video of this tool Once you try this you realize how easy it is to do such a difficult block. Neat thing about it is that you use strips instead of templete of diamonds and squares. And there is no Y-seams. Which is a good thing because I want to make a reproduction of this antique quilt. Now my stars will be 3" but on this antique quilt which was probably sewn by hand, the stars if I remember correctly were around 2 or 2 1/2 finished stars and there are 275 stars. Now see why I'm loving this tool. Now an update on my Love Entwined  I have the compass made and need to add the inter center circle plus the outside ring. The...

I love Sundays, it's the day of the week that is devoted to rest and reflection. So I try my best to fulfill those things and find great satisfaction. I believe my stitching is not considered work, I find handwork very relaxing. I love making something so beautiful and useful with my hands and working on this quilt will fit those criteria. I'm piecing the center by hand, had thought about paper piecing but I don't do it enough to feel comfortable doing it. So I photocopied the pieces onto some freezer paper, then pressed onto the wrong side of my fabrics. Trace the outline of the pattern so I have a guideline to stitch by. Seeing how the pieces are all straight edges I used my ruler and rotary cutter to trim them down. I trim to under a 1/4 by not quite a 1/8 inch. The directions with the pattern are excellent and the suggestion to leave the paper on until time to stitch is an wo...