I have another pattern on the Accuquilt website. Click Here for Pattern It is called Star Illusion! It really is the simplest pattern ever. I love Accuquilts new Qube block dies! They are easier to store and easy to use. If you think cutting this quilt out by hand would be faster, I am here to tell you it is not. It took my all day just to cut it with the dies. Accuquilt has this awesome die reference for cutting with its dies. Link Here 1930's reproduction fabric was used to make this quilt. It was cut using the GO! Qube 8" and GO! Qube 8" companion set. It only requires two dies and goes together fast. The hardest part of this quilt is organizing the rows to get the star pattern. I laid out the blocks and pieced them in four patches and assigning a row letter and number to each. I pinned the HST to each middle piece and stacked them in 4 patches with a label. I chain pieced each 4 patch then stacked them with the label. After pressing the 4 patches I
What do you do with an old quilt top? My step Dad's wife had a quilt top her mother made that she wanted me to create two quilts with for her daughters. The sashing was coming apart and the top needed a good cleaning. It looked like it had some type of glue on some parts of it. At first I thought I could repair the sashing and divide the top into two as she suggested. But the sashing was partly machine sewn and hand sewn. Very strange. So I decide to take it apart instead. After it was apart I soaked the whole thing in Retro Clean for a day. Man the water was brown when I went to pull it out! I nice cold rinse and I quick toss in the dry on a cool setting. I then Ironed and starched every piece. After that I trimmed everything even. The sashing was different sizes. No wonder it looked weird. I don't have any pictures of the before quilt top. I had a couple of sashing pieces that were damaged by the glue that I didn't want to put back in the quilt. Because I