50. How to Piece a Slash Star Quilt Block

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

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  1. Gemma Potts says:

    I love "Stomach lining" because you can tell you were a biology major and looked t sections under the microscope. I was wondering if you have ever made any designs from looking at pond water samples. Some of the microorganisms have such beautiful designs. I love Volvox. I wonder how that might look as a FMQ design! 🙂 (I was a bio teacher for over 20 years).

  2. How about a dab of glue stick behind each section and a revolving cutting mat? So odd to watch a left handed cutter. Read more quilt blogs and you will get used to seeing the modern esthetic. N

  3. I have been enjoying making all the blocks so far. BUT, the slash star block is very disappointing! I kept try to convince myself that they would be fine when finished, but they were not. I made all four of them and by the time they are trimmed down to size, they don't even look like stars any more! Wonky? No, just weird! I really couldn't stand the way they looked. I finally decided to draft a paper piecing pattern by tracing one of the quilting diagrams and breaking it down into four separate sections. Sewing it together is a bit more complicated than your instructions but the block looks like it should and the quilting diagrams will fit the way they should. And I can look at it and smile! Still ripping out the other three blocks because I'm afraid I will run out of fabric if I start them all from scratch.

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