I am going to make this short and sweet this week. After all the only pieces that are left are setting strips.
Here is the link to the YouTube video.
Here are the printable directions:
Please stop by next week. I will post the Patriotic Series in its entirety in one document!
I hope you are having a great time playing a long. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving…with family, friends, and some sewing time for yourself.
Later,
Lorrie
This week we are making four at a time flying geese to accent those cute little stars that swirl around the middle block.
We will need 32 flying geese to frame up those stars. Since we are making them for a time, we will need to make eight geese units.
Trimming the assembled geese makes them perfect to add to the setting star blocks. Please note the direction of your star blocks if you used directional or fussy cut fabrics.
Please watch my YouTube video presentation here for additional assembly details.
Here is the free PDF for these blocks:
I hope you are enjoying this Patriotic quilt series! One more week to go!
Later,
Lorrie
We are in the home stretch of this series. We are down to some of the last setting pieces. This week, we are making 22 pieced variable stars.
In the cutting document, I provided a chart for one star OR (in the second chart) 22 stars. You will need to make adjustments based on your color choices and scrap selections.
Remember that this is a free printable pattern. Enjoy!
Later
Lorrie
The election is over…no more political adds for a while. Whew!
This is the last block in this quilt. Next week, we start the setting pieces so that we can have the top done by the end of the month.
This block finishes at 12″ when set in a quilt. It is made up of mostly 2″ squares.
When I assembled this block, it took about 40 minutes to trim the triangle blocks. This is not my favorite task, but I powered through by taking short breaks between block stacks.
I like that this block looks complicated, but it really is not.
My hints are:
Here is the printable PDF:
I hope you are enjoying this build a block series. If you have any questions about cutting pieces at a different size for a different piecing technique, I would be glad to help you! Contact me through e-mail at werquilters@gmail.com.
Later,
Lorrie
