Once I had everything cut out I dusted off my sewing machine and set to work piecing everything together. This is the fun and tedious part of the quilt for me. I love putting the colors in different combinations but it takes quite a while to sew everything together. First I lay out what piece will get sewn together.
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| All layed out and ready |
Next comes the sewing and as long as I don't run out of bobbin thread or have issues with my machine I can be fairly quick, but after each seam is sewn I have to iron it.
From the pictures you can see how it looks with one done (a before and after) as well as both. Slowly the pieces come together as there is a specific way they have to be joined.
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| Half way done |
Then the moment of triumph when everything is together and the back needs to be ironed.
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| Iron all the seams |
And after almost 2 hours I got my first star done! Granted April was the first time I had used my sewing machine this year and I knew I would a few kinks to get worked out.
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| All done! |
It wasn't until August that I was able to get all 30 stars finished. The last thing I had to do was measure and clean up the edges to make sure they are all about the same size. The tricky thing with quilting is that unlike cooking it has to be fairly exact.
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| Measuring |
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| The piles of stars |
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| The perfect star |
Making stars and points is really tricky and I was really excited to see this star turn out perfectly. You can see all the points and the seams all line up.
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