Hello, I made Qty 9 Stars for the May Loto.  I think mine look like bats and not stars. Happy Sewing, Debra...

First of all, SOPHIE THANKS, you are doing a great job helping us computer illiterates and I appreciate all your help. This was a very tough block for me, but I did make two I think are good enough to enter. Terry in CA...

I made 5. I read through the instructions carefully and realized that it was very important to do the cuts exactly right. Make sure you run some cuts to the edge and others that terminate on the other cuts like the picture in the instructions. If you do this and piece in the recommended order there will be only easy straight seams to sew. I’m donating this month after winning April’s...

One of Maree’s stars The block for May is a liberated, stack and slash, 5-pointed star.   Susan Druding’s directions for the technique are here:   Slash Stars   This is one of the blocks that Maree made.   Like many liberated techniques, there is a learning curve–but trying new things and learning is why we’re here, right?  If you have not made these before, please allow yourself to fail …...

I found that the method with the single large triangle created better results, flatter seams, easier to match points.  I hope to make more! Glad to be back and I would love to win these blue & white beauties!...

These were fun to make.   I found Bonnie Hunters website and blog many years ago and I took her Scrap Users system to heart, so it was great to be able to go to the  3.5″ strip box for the backgrounds, and the small scrap boxes for the star...

This was a good exercise in fabric selection.  I’m partial to on-point...

The block for October is a 9-inch (finished size) split star block in solid white plus two solid colors of your choice. Print-friendly (PDF format) directions for making the block are here: Split Star Block Pattern The basis of this block is known as Sawtooth Star or Square and Points–it’s a go-to block for me, easy to make in almost any size, so after seeing some other diagonally sliced star blocks in blog land, I had to create this...

 I’m having trouble posting so going to do this in 2 posts.  This is block 2...

Actually, I did make 9 blocks in the sneak peek, but looking back at them, some of them seem like very red purples, so I think I will hold them back and see if I have some time to make a few more with less reddish purples. Some of the ones I made are probably ok,...

I took advantage of the bitter cold and snow earlier this week and stayed inside and got my liberated stars top quilted and bound. Thanks again for the wonderful...

I took advantage of the bitter cold and snow earlier this week and stayed inside and got my liberated stars top quilted and bound. Thanks again for the wonderful...