I don't have any new full stars done yet, just lots of bits and pieces of stars. Plus some small stars for the cornerstones. So many of these subunits are directional: the triangles face one way in one unit and the other way in another unit, that I find it easiest to do a bunch of one kind, then ... VIEW POST
Radiant Star Part 6: 8 blocks down
The only place I'm making progress this week is in my sewing room. Quilting? not going well. Sockmaking? ditto. House? A mess. E-mail? Behind. Packages mailed? Ha. But at least I've gotten some stars made. 8 blocks done = 40%! 256 of the little blue and white half-square triangle ... VIEW POST
Radiant Star Part 5, Forward Progress
I'm now up to 3 fully complete blocks. And since taking this picture, I've actually added sashing to those 3 and sewn them together into a unit. Plus, I have the subunits for 2 more stars ready to be assembled tomorrow. I hadn't counted until just this very minute: there are 121 individual ... VIEW POST
Radiant Star Part 4a, more about HSTs
I'm going to apologize right off the top: there are no pictures in this post, and it's another really technical post about a quilting technique... ... VIEW POST
Radiant Star Part 4, Half Square Triangles
For the non-quilting readers, this is going to be more about quilting than you are probably willing to sit through, so you may be excused. Or you can keep reading if you think it might be interesting. Just don't blame me if you are bored. For the rest of you, I thought I'd do a post about how ... VIEW POST
Radiant Star Part 3 — Houston, We Have a Block
Only 19 more to go. It took longer than I had thought it would, but I was only doing the one, when I'm working on a bunch at a time and doign some assembly line work, it'll all go faster. Plus, I was still trying to figure otu what the heck I was doing, there's a LOT of pieces to keep track ... VIEW POST
