Hey Acre, You said suggestions were welcome when you started this thread, so....
http://www.quilterscache.com/B/BrasstownStarBlock.html
This makes a pretty block and it's not too hard. Just thought I'd run that up the flagpole and see if anyone saluted.
Ginger.....I got your block today and I love it! Thank you so much for the extra material. It is pretty and very nice cotton material. You are a sweetie.
NanaKat... Thank you so much for the freezer paper pattern and instructions. I love the block you sent and think I can actually improve...
I think my dh would notice but that would probably be because I used the brightest thread I could find. My bad....Some of us never grow up.
Thanks for the link, Ginger. I hadn't seen that one. With the links and NanaKat for backup, we've got it made, CW.
Kathryn, Could you elaborate a little bit on the pattern? By white cloth, do you mean you use the white cloth as a template for your first piece or do you just use whatever is the first color in the block that you are going to piece?
Be gentle, I'm new to this.
OK, y'all.....I spent all morning getting this block cut out precisely and sewn together carefully and when I got to the final step I realized it is going to be 14 inches instead of 12. The one inch test square measured one inch so I don't know what went wrong. I am paper piecing by the...