Lone Star Quilt Construction Tips and Y-Seams
from Fret Not Yourself
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quilting
After so many Lone Stars, LeMoyne Stars and other eight-pointed stars I have a few tips to pass on.If you are sewing smaller diamonds together, it's easier to press those seams open.
Of course, that means those intersections need more pinning when sewing one larger unit to another. I put a pin exactly one-fourth inch from the edge and through the seam on both sides then add pins on either side to keep it from shifting. Take ...
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| Press seams open on smaller diamonds |
Of course, that means those intersections need more pinning when sewing one larger unit to another. I put a pin exactly one-fourth inch from the edge and through the seam on both sides then add pins on either side to keep it from shifting. Take ...