Honoring Women's Rights ~ Week 7

Alice's Star

 

 

 

We are quilting along with Barbara

Brackman's Block of the Week,

Grandmother's Choice.

http://grandmotherschoice.blogspot.com

 

 

Fabric Requirements:

 

8 1/2" x 3 3/16" strips in either

2 or 3 different fabrics.

 

Scrap fabric for star

 

 

Sew the 3 strips together as shown.

Press seams to the darker fabric.

Square to 8 1/2".

 

 

For my block, I printed out the template

from the pdf and then enlarged it 112%.

 

I then fussy cut pieces using the template

and machine pieced the star unit on the

right.  I then trimmed 1/4" from all sides.

I cut the star on the left to the same size.

 

I then trimmed an additional 1/4" from

the fussy cut star.

 

 

I hand stitched the fussy cut star to

the larger star using a blanket stitch.

Then I stitched this unit to the 8 1/2"

block.

 

 

I added an additional circle to the

center of the star and stitched that

in place using the blanket stitch.

 

Check out everyones work on the Flickr site:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/grandmotherschoice/

See you next Sunday!