MONTH 6 — Show Your Progress Here

[Barbara B.]

Please use this TOPIC to show your progress.

[lholzhu]

The little stars are so cute. I finished them today. I did a test block using the Tri Rex rulers and it was accurate. Not sure if this color star will make the cut when we get that far, but there are only 4 to change if needed.

[Deb B.]

[Christine B.]

that looks amazing with the black background! Beautiful

[Marcia D.]

black background is stunning. really makes everything pop.

[Carol G.]

My 4 star 'C's are done. Using my own stash.

[brigitte.wieser]

Month 6 completed. I decided to do the large star by Foundation Piecing and it worked quite well.
If at all possible I try to quilt my quilts QAYG. So this one too. So far I'm very happy with the result.

[Helen W.]

Brigitte, Thank you for the quick response. I love the idea and your free motion bubbles look great.
So if I understand you correctly, you put the applique border face down on the quilted center section,
the backing fabric with the right side facing the back of the center block, stitch the 1/4 inch seam.
Then put a piece of batting in between the border/back pin and quilt. Do you leave an extra inch
or so of batting on the center and then just butt the new piece up to it, or do you trim the batting
edge to be even with the center before you stitch the applique/back on. HelenW from Idaho
USA.

[brigitte.wieser]

Dear Helen,
you understood everything correctly. I also cut the batting right along the edge because that makes it easier to line up the fabric edges.

Kind regards,
Brigitte

[Gayle L.]

I love your color palette

[Pat D.]

I finished my stars, and may continue with more 1/2 sq triangles ahead of time as suggested. I will say that the friendship stars were more difficult to get right. Mine are "mostly right". I used the templates and then used paper piecing and neither way was perfect. But on we go...

[Carol G.]

Your large stars look great from here! So pretty

[Pamela K.]

Month 6 is done, found the flying geese the way Barbara Black showed us to be much faster way.

[Susan M.]

Beautiful!

[midnight33]

Sew many choices; I keep reminding myself I should just wait on those small stars til I pick stash for the appliqué. I appreciate the suggestion of tri recs ruler, I had it but never used it ~ worked great!

[Sharon P.]

i gave up with machine use on the stars. i handpieced them and they came out fine. wheeeu. i think going through the seams,not over the seams appears to help

[NinaMarie]

Now that's a skill I haven't learned! I thought it was a lot of work getting all 24 done by machine. I love to hand applique and EPP so I'll have to give hand piecing a try sometime!

[Carol G.]

Got all my stars made and the top done thru Month 6. Ignore the pumpkin hanging out on my design wall LOL I am using my own stash. I used the same blue fabric for all the star points, except the 4 in month 5's border

[GypsyBobbin]

Simultaneously working on two.

[Donna M.]

Because I cut my strips before watching Barbara's flying geese video, I did the HST's with the help of Thangles. I finished the parts for month 6's additions to the center block and will just work on the rest of the HSTs in between other projects. I also had a set of Nifty Notions rulers where one was a perfect fit for one of the triangles in the friendship star and I just taped the paper template to the other one to make sure I trimmed to size.

[Susan D.]

I love your colors.

[Jo Anne]

I finished my stars and just placed them around the corners for the moment. Once I got my method down, they went pretty quickly. For the large C stars, I used freezer paper to cut out each piece.

[Kati]

Here is my month 6 completed. I am thankful that most of my triangle points and start points are intact. I used the 4 at a time flying geese- which I have tried once before for 2 inch sawtooth stars (that is tough) and found that the 4 inch was easier . I am getting the gist of it. I will have to figure out the color of my next stars-

[KayeT]

Small stars done just the 4 friendship star corner ones to complete then will be caught up for June. Like Barbara’s flying geese method