MONTH 2 — Share Your Progress HERE

[Barbara B.]

Those look great, wonderful addition to your quilt.

[Gloria V]

I decided to change the appliqué because I loved the pink plaid fabric so much. I used the Rosa Rojas and Alex Anderson methods of making and machine appliquéing. Two totally done (still need to trim) and 10 ready to machine appliqué. Hopefully they will play nicely with adjoining blocks!

[Lynn W.]

Your blocks look great to me, Susan.

[Barbara B.]

https://thequiltshow.com/forum/block...spring-fabrics

[Lynnanne]

Lynnanne, You could go to a hardware store with your print out of the pattern diagram and buy
a couple metal washers the same size as the circles. Use them the same technique as Karen Kay Buckley uses with her teflon washers. Just be careful when you iron the circles
not to burn you fingers taking out the metal. Let it cool. If you used a dime it would be a little
bigger but not noticeable. Do you have dimes in Italy??? HelenW

Thanks Helen, those are good ideas. The one cent euro is too big also. Anyway this time I’m doing them with the glue like we did in Afternoon Delight. They’re not perfect but it will do. The other pieces I did with the starch and freezer paper technique.

i cannot find the place where someone posted about where to buy more fabric used intthe kit. Any help would be appreciated!
Susan

[Ellen L.]

I'm not going to do all the applique this month to highlight the flamingo fabric in the background. I purposely placed the hearts in circles in places between the birds and will celebrate their asymetry.

[Ellen L.]

Such terrific fabric for the baskets. I love what you did with this.

[Helen W.]

Lynnanne, You could go to a hardware store with your print out of the pattern diagram and buy
a couple metal washers the same size as the circles. Use them the same technique as Karen Kay Buckley uses with her teflon washers. Just be careful when you iron the circles
not to burn you fingers taking out the metal. Let it cool. If you used a dime it would be a little
bigger but not noticeable. Do you have dimes in Italy??? HelenW

[Lynnanne]

Lynnanne, Have you ever tried Karen Kay Buckley Perfect Circles? They work great. She has a
tutorial on how to do it on her website. HelenW

Thanks Helen, I will look at the tutorial but I can’t purchase them where I live so, like with other supplies suggested in the patterns, I have to find alternative ways to work. Thanks though!

Wow! OMG and amazing. You are incredibly talented! I like how you echoed the center design. It gives the quilt a look of radiating outwards. How much larger did you make the center star? Oh and your fabric is gorgeous! Seriously fantastic job!
Lori

[monroequilter]

I have Rosa’s Apliquick tools and large scissors but have never used them, this morning I decided to re-watch her TQS show and afterward ordered myself some of the one-sided fusible and glue sticks. In the meantime I made a heart template and a football templet out of heat resistant Mylar, I just wasn’t satisfied with the freezer paper method for these. I’m using KKB’s perfect circles for the center and where the football tips meet.

[Barbara B.]

They look great from here. Put it on a wall, step back 6 feet and it will look great.

[Lorry0]

Ok company coming and like many quilters cleaning not on my favorite things to do list, so making some of those circles is my ‘break’. Using the starch method is bit challenging but it does work. Felt like a contortionist so put my wool ironing pad on a lazy susan which made starching in a circle easier. I can only do 3 or 4 at a time then need to do something else so I have completed one full block, 11 others ready for circles. My block is not perfect but best I can do. Maybe by the time I get to block 12 I’ll have all perfect circles, ha ha! Lorry

[Helen W.]

Lynnanne, Have you ever tried Karen Kay Buckley Perfect Circles? They work great. She has a
tutorial on how to do it on her website. HelenW