Star Gardener Block

Star Gardener block

Wow... finally got this together and the little block took nearly an hour, juggling with seam allowances to get it to press reasonably flat - I used so much steam I fogged up my glasses! Mind you I did stop for coffee half way through.







Here is the felt bookwrap I made on Monday, now completed. Mostly hand stitch as that was the day I took my Embellisher machine but not the lead.
This is made with some lovely wool felt given to me by Jean who had found a huge piece at a car boot sale. I put it through a hot wash and it felted up nicely, but wasn't quite wide enough so the lining was cut wider to act as a binding to control the slightly frilly edges.

Fame at Last!

They've put up my pic and instructions for making a Bookwrap on the wordpress bookwraps site here!

 

version 1

Playing with tiny triangles today, just trimmed 50 of the little blighters, put in a new blade halfway through and wondered why I didn't do it sooner... I am planning to make Farmer's Wife Star Gardener block.  

 

 

 

 

 

I laid it out on the table and it didn't look right:

I realised I had the half square triangles rotated so the dark was where the light should be.

I started to turn them round, then found another interesting combination before arriving at the correct layout.

 

 

version 2

 

 

 

 

 

I just hope they don't all get mixed up again when I sew them together or I'll have yet another version...

version 3