Karen Styles is Coming From Australia

I decided to make a couple of Eight Point Stars tonight to promote 

Karen Styles' visit to us in March.

It was so much fun fussy cutting my 1800s fabrics for these two.

But I did have to press the living daylights out of the first block on the left 

and couldn't figure out why. 

Can you? 

It had a huge hump in the middle, but now it doesn't! 

Thanks to a steam iron and starch.

The second one went together like a gem and sat flat straight away.

I am thinking I will make more at class and will learn lots of tips from

her to make them even better.

She is teaching making them by American hand piecing or machine piecing.

I did mine by hand.

It was great to return to a technique that I hadn't used for years.

It also made a change from English Paper Piecing over card.

Remember these little fussy cut hexagons I made last year 

and then forgot about when Patchwork of the Crosses came along.

Little ones

Bigger Ones

Well I think they are going to get a revival and go into a quilt with the stars.