Delightful Stars Quilt-Along

Welcome everyone to our first star block lesson for the Delightful Stars Quilt-Along (DS QAL). Here is the finished Block 18:

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For the first several blocks that we’ll be creating, the focus is on creating the various triangle and flying geese units. We’ll be paying close attention to lining up the seams and not cutting off the triangle points. A couple of tips shared in this week’s lesson are below.

When joining the half-square triangle units together, focus on lining up the diagonal lines. The photo on the left shows that the two triangle points achieved after sewing the seam don’t quite match. To fix this, I unstitched one inch from the edge of the seam, realigned the pieces as shown in the second photo, pinned, and stitched again, making sure to backstitch the starting line. The photo on the right is the result; it’s close enough for my liking.

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When attaching the flying geese units to the pinwheel, I’m focussing on getting the flying geese point aligned with the centre seam in the pinwheel block.

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Delightful Stars Quilt-Along

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DS QAL: Lesson 1 – Block 18

2 thoughts on “DS QAL: Lesson 1 – Block 18

  • January 31, 2014 at 6:48 pm
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    When you update the change file each week please tell us in this current file what page number that change appears on so we don’t have to look through the whole file each week ie: the info on pressing seams.

  • May 17, 2014 at 11:04 pm
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    How can I get some of the star patterns that you have shown or just the sizes of the squares. Thank you

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