Been busy, busy here. I tend to feel like I am starting to go in circles and that I am a half square triangle! Don’t you just hate those things sometimes! the hst’s I mean. I am working on the Star Crazy quilt trying to not get left behind in the dust and keep up with the monthly obligation of the monthly assignment. But ran into a problem. The instructions right off the bat tell you to make sure that you have your printer settings at full size no scaling. I checked– it was right – no scaling, full size. Well something is off because I started to make my hst’s and then decided to put one star together just to see what it looked like and the hst’s were too small! Not by a lot but enough to make a difference if you know what I mean. After a lot of measuring to see what the problem was I found that the print out for the paper piecing of triangles is 1/16th of an inch off – too small.
After some playing around with it I think I have it figured out – not the printer – my patterns – I am having to make all of my seams less than 1/4 inch if I want to use the patterns and not have to cut a bunch of strips ect., to do it the other method. So by the end of the day I managed to have some of my half square triangles finished and I needed a break so quit for the rest of the evening.
my scrappy color choices for the beginning of this part of the quilt and a pile of triangles that I will get the paper off of this evening, press and then square up because now they need squaring up because I have made the seams less they are not all the same size - but they will be size they are supposed to be!!
I have been continuing to work on my other quilt that has 4 patches and appliqued circles. It is coming along nicely!
My box of 328 four patches. I only needed (I think) 317 but I went ahead and made some extra - just in case needed to swap out because of colors next to each other that you don't want next to each other 
You can see that the Moda Sampler box is starting to look empty compared to the full box I started with. The two zip lock bags contain a total of 220 appliqued circles, about a hundred left to do. They are actually going rather quickly (until today that is when I devoted almost a whole day to Star Crazy)
I did take a little time off today to clean house and to meet two old friends for lunch. I used to be on a bowling team – Mike and I together – we quit bowling about 4 years ago and I’m afraid I have just about lost touch with some old friends. Time flies doesn’t it, you don’t mean to neglect friends but if you don’t have a lot in common other than one activity you tend to do so it seems. We had a good visit over Chinese Food and then I got back home to work on these hst’s!
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Oh Karen, so sorry to hear about the glitch in the HST’s but it appears that you have it well under control now. But I know what you mean, after all that hard work is put in only to find out that something went awry. But they do look beautiful. And your four patches and yo-yo’s look just beautiful!! My hubby and I used to bowl on a league together. This was before kids though, so we haven’t done that in a while. We had fun though.
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What a shame about the HST’s, but looking at them, I see we share some of the same fabrics!
Maggie
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I’m glad you figured out the problem…I’ve got a similar issue with the Antique Quilt, but haven’t had time to put my brain (or the hubby’s) on it yet. I’m kind of starting yo yo ville too, just making yo yo’s right now though. I love your circles!
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Sure is a good thing you put a block together before sewing the triangles and finding out Oh No!!
I am going to start working on a purse that I have started then needed buttons so it got set aside.
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You are so productive! I love all of those appliqued circles using the Moda sampler. I asked for a Moda sampler for Christmas, so I will have to think of something creative to do with mine too. Lovely work.
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Did the squares in your four patches come out of the sampler box to. I believe you got your moneys worth out of that sampler. I just love moda fabrics. I can hardly wait for the finished top of the circles to be finished.
yes I am glad that I hadn’t made all of the half square triangles before I decided to put one star together to see what they looked liked. I need to continue work on it today so I have this months of work put aside.
Karen
Glad you figured it out. And I can’t imagine the patience to do all those circles. I don’t mind the appliquing, it’s the prepping that makes me nuts.
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I can just imagine how you felt when the hst didn’t fit, what a headache. I’m happy you have it all figured out now though, so smooth sailing through the rest of the project. Wow that box is really getting empty!!
Crispy
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