How Is Your Sweet Stars Quilt Going?

We’re about half way through the Sweet Stars Sewalong so I thought it would be a good idea to check in with every­one sew­ing along.   Have you been keep­ing up with the blog­ger posts?  Just in case you missed them here’s a recap…

If this is the first time you’ve heard about the Sweet Stars Sewalong you can click here or at the link in the menu at the top of the page to check out all the details.

Amy Diary of a Quilter has shared some excel­lent tips about choos­ing fab­rics for a quilt.   Check out Amy’s post for a raft of inform­a­tion about using pre­cuts and work­ing with col­our, scale and more…

Christine from Stitch­ing Reviv­al’s blog post was all about sew­ing accur­ately.   And the best bit.… it’s a trick that is easy to do and makes a huge dif­fer­ence to sew­ing quilts!   Check out Christine’s post for tips about nest­ing seams and pinning!

Next up Kirsty from Bon­jour Quilts showed us how to make Half Square Tri­angles 8 at a time.   I love the meth­od Kirsty shares in her blog post and will def­in­itely be giv­ing it a go.    It sure makes sew­ing the Weather­vane blocks a lot quicker!

On Monday this week Kim­berly from The Fat Quarter Shop pos­ted about mak­ing the Saw­tooth Star blocks.   Kim­berly’s tips are fab­ulous and she has some addi­tion­al tricks you can use to help with accur­acy.   Check out her blog post if you haven’t already!

Don’t for­get that the Fat Quarter Shop has Quilt Kits and Back­ing Sets avail­able if you’d like your quilt to look like the one I made.   They also have yard­age avail­able for each of the beau­ti­ful prints in Sedef’s Sweet Orch­ard collection.

And finally, today Sedef from Down Grapev­ine Lane,  the design­er of the Sweet Orch­ard range and someone I feel very lucky to call a friend is shar­ing her tricks for accur­ate piecing and easy corner tri­angles.    Easy corner tri­angles are used quite a lot in the Sweet Stars quilt so you won’t want to miss Sedef’s post!

If you’re in Aus­tralia and prefer to shop loc­ally, check out Fab­ric Pix­ie and Fab­ric Patch, Deanne and Janeene are both really lovely and stock beau­ti­ful fab­ric I know you’ll love!

Last but not least, don’t for­get to share pic­tures of your pro­gress so far.   You can use the hasht­ags #sweet­starsquilt and #sweet­starssal on Ins­tagram or, if Ins­tagram isn’t your thing, I’d love it if you could send a photo through to my email address shequiltsalot@gmail.com.

Have a great week,