More Stars

Well this morning I finally finished the August Star Crazy Blocks.  These little blocks really shouldn’t have taken the 3 days that it took me but my sewing skills kept running into problems and I had other things to do!  I’m so glad to have this months blocks done because the September blocks instructions come out in just a couple days.  I have been trying to stay caught up on these and not fall behind.

3 different kinds of stars and 3 of each –

Besides the stars this week in the evening I have been working on my quilt that I had brought along on our travels to quilt and then didn’t work on it.  It is coming along nicely.

The quilting so far.  What I do with the quilts lines is as I get some quilting done I use a little water to “erase” the lines – I do not do the whole thing I have quilted so that the blue lines that I still need are still there – I will wet up to about 2 inches away from the areas that need quilting still.  I do not recommend you doing this if you have never used the blue pen before.  You have not be careful to not use too much water.  I just do it if I want to really see what the quilting is actually looking like without the blue lines to interfere with it.  (the quilt will still need to be washed several times to get all the blue out as I did not use a lot of water, just kind of dabbed at it with a wet cloth.)

The whole quilt – well actually you can see the strip border on it as I have it folded in to prevent raveling.  As I get to the border I will unpin it. I didn’t straighten it out completely on the floor – it is not bunched up like that but does lay flat.