Road 66 Hexagons

I've been adding the white background to the hexagons for my Road 66 Quilt from Di Ford's book, Primarily Quilts.  I wanted to see how the fussy cut diamonds would look when the blocks were joined, so I've cut a few of those and joined the first two blocks.  

 I started working on cutting the hexagons for this quilt before I started work on the Rotherfields Grey center and got a bit sidetracked adding rounds to it.

Most of the hexagons I've made so far have at least one fussy cut round and a fussy cut center.  

I've had so much fun cutting the pieces for these blocks, that I probably have enough cut to make 2 quilts or to make this one really huge.  

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Rotherfield Greys - More Borders

I've finished the next two borders on my Rotherfield Greys quilt.  I feel the same with this quilt as I did with my Dear Jane quilt.  I'll be excited to see the quilt top finished, but at the same time I'll be a bit sad to see it end.  I have really enjoyed all of the different borders on this quilt.  

I really like how the mitered border print frames all of the elongated churn dash blocks.  

Sometimes my photos make my quilts look like they're not quite square.  I checked this corner (below) after looking at the photo, and it wasn't square.  So I took the mitered border off and squared the corner and put the miter back on.

The last planned border is 1" six pointed stars and I've started working on those.  The quilt finishes at 84" X 84".

There are 52 of these little 1" stars that are English Paper Pieced and then appliqued onto a background.  Each star has the same tan points, and I've fussy cut all of those.  You can find my fussy cutting tutorial here.  There is also a link to it under my blog header.

I'm linking up with Judy for Design Wall Monday at Pachwork times.  

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Oh, My Stars!!!

Hello everyone.  Hope you are enjoying a nice Friday.  I probably spend as much time trying to think up a title for my blog posts as I do taking photos.  It's hard to come up with something original because I keep making these six pointed stars.  They are really addictive.  

Here are my stars so far.  They are 2" six pointed stars and are English Paper Pieced.  I ordered my papers from Paper Pieces.com.     They have now moved to Paducah, KY, and I can't wait to visit their store when I go to the AQS Quilt show there next year.  

I'm sewing along with Fussy Cut Fridays at Temecula Quilt Company blog. It is week #25.  I have 35 stars so far so I'm a little ahead of the game.  

The fabric I used for the first star is Alexandria by Jo Morton for Andover fabrics. 

This pink fabric is an oldie from my stash.  It is Williamsburg Randolph by Windham fabrics.  

Here is the link to my Fussy Cutting Tutorial if you are thinking about making some of these fussy cut six pointed stars.  

I hope you are finding some time to stitch today!

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