Oopsie

So I was so proud of myself, completing block 9 of the Carol Doak Radiant Star BOM, but when I went to photograph it with the rest of the blocks, it was 1/2" too big!  Ahh

It's a cute block too!

I always measure to make sure the block is the right size before I start sewing, but for some reason, this time around I must have measured wrong.  :(  Welp, this block might become a pillow.

Another Simply Radiant Block

While I had no machine, I prepped a couple of the Simply Radiant BOM blocks from the Carol Doak Yahoo Group.  Here's this completed block.  I just love how these blocks are turning out.

And here are the eight that I've completed.  Just four more to go.

This block is in the upper right corner.  I said it before, and I'll say it again, I love these!

Simply Radiant BOM - January

As I was preparing to teach the BMQG paper piecing, I was looking for just the right pattern that didn't have too many pieces, needed to be pieced together to show how to join two paper pieced blocks, and had different angles to show how to take care in lining up the fabrics.  I decided on the January BOM from Carol Doak's Simply Radiant Star BOM.  I hadn't made this block, but it appeared to be the easiest block out of the bunch.  It would be perfect.

Here's my finished block.  I really like how it came out.  As I was preparing and picking out fabrics I decided that I needed a block with red as the dominant color.  I think this works well.

Here are all seven blocks so far.  See why I thought I needed another block with red as the focus color?

I put this aside for a while, but I'm going to TRY to pick it back up again and get a few more blocks done.  All of the patterns have been posted for the quilt, I just need to finish them all. 

Radiant Star BOM - Block 6

Well, after a break from quilting for a few weeks with traveling for work and pleasure, I finally got back into the swing of sewing the other night.  To start, I worked on catching up on the Radiant Star BOM.  I think we're up to block 9, but I just got to finishing block 6.  Progress is progress though.

I love these blocks.  I think it's fair to say that I really love Carol Doak's patterns and I love to paper piece.

Here are the first six blocks.  Half way done!  I love how using one line of fabric for the entire quilt pulls everything together even though the blocks are all different.  

Radiant Star BOM - Block 5

Last weekend I also finished block 5 of Carol Doak's Radiant Star BOM from her Yahoo Group.  I really love how this star turned out.

My goal for this block was to incorporate more brown into this one.  I think it turned out cute.

Here are the first 5 blocks.

Seeing all of the blocks together makes me glad that I decided to use one fat quarter bundle for the color cohesion.  I still haven't made any of the connector blocks that will go in between each of these blocks.  I'm not sure when I'll get to those.  Right now it's not a big priority for me.

Radiant Star BOM - Block 4

Today I finished the fourth block of the Carol Doak Radiant Star BOM for September.  I tried to incorporate more red this time around since the previous blocks had more pink and blue.  I'll probably try to incorporate brown more into the next block.

Here are all four blocks so far.

It feels good to be back sewing again.  We had house guests for a while and with my broken toe, it had been able two weeks since I've sewn.

Radiant Star BOM - Block 3

Last night I finished making block 3 of the Carol Doak Simply Radiant Star BOM.

I love the blue squares in this block.  I think this came out cute.

Here are all three blocks together.  I really like how they look all together.  I'm using a fat quarter bundle of Blush for the entire quilt.

And I leave you with some of the goodies that I got at the Lowell Quilt Festival last weekend.  I got a lot of great stuff on sale.

Radiant Star BOM - Block 2, Take 2

So after the size issue with the second block in Carol Doak's Simply Radiant Star BOM, I re-did the second block.  Since I was re-doing it, I decided to change up the color placement and I like it much better. I still think it looks more like a flower though.

And here are the first two blocks together...

Now to work on block 3 which was just put out a few days ago.

Radiant Star BOM - Block 2

I finished the second block of Carol Doak's Radiant Star BOM tonight.  Unfortunately, the block ended up finishing 1/2" larger than it was supposed to.  I'm not quite sure how that happened since I printed it out the same way that I always print off my paper pieced patterns, but it looks like I'll have to re-do this one.  I'm not too devastated that I have to re-do it since I'm not crazy about the dark red on the outside.  I think next time I'm going to put the baby blue on the outside and the brown on the inside.

And here are both the blocks together.  I'm not that crazy about the second block since it's not very star like and is more flower like in my opinion.  You can see the size difference in the photo too.

And I leave you with a cute picture of the new kitten that we have officially named Misty.

Radiant Star BOM - Block 1

I finished block one of Carol Doak's Radiant Star BOM found on her Yahoo group.  I cracked open my Blush fat quarter bundle for this quilt.  I was slightly hesitant to pull the Moda bow off the fat quarter bundle, but I found the strength to open it up and cut into it.  Here's the first block.

All of the blocks will have the same white background with the pinks, reds, blues, and browns of the Blush fabric line.

Carol also posted a sashing block, but I'm not sure if I'm going to go that route.  I need to wait and see a few more blocks before I decide on the sashing.