She wanted to see how the star pattern works using a striped fabric. I was somewhat hesitant at first, not because I didn't think it would look good but because I don't really have that much striped fabric in my stash. I pulled out what i did have and I actually only had 3 real stripes -- SHOCK I know. I had pulled out my Alice in Wonderland / Jim Shore fabrics for destashing but realized that this was a great opportunity to use this fun and patterned striped fabric.
The pattern comes in many size variations which is really nice.
I still like the block and being that it's Alice in Wonderland themed it still works out nicely and really in a way better than if it had came out perfect. I'm going to be adding a boarder to this one and embroidering a quote on it to put up in my bedroom with the rest of my AiW collection. I am also doing a Disney themed swap starting soon till January so perhaps this mini may become a source of inspiration.
Elise writes great patterns and I am very happy to have been a part of this testing (even if my results were not what I expected). I am thinking that if I may be adding more stripes to my fabric vocabulary in the near future and perhaps I'll give it another go with this pattern.
You end up with a lot of alternating bias with these kinds of cut - heavy spray starch is your friend. Use it to press the fabric for cutting and spray again with each bit of piecing. It will be stiffer than a board, but won't wonk on ya.Cute, cute fabric.
ReplyDeleteGreat tip above ^^^ Yes, you can't get it too stiff before you work with bias cuts. I think it came out pretty good for a first effort! The stripe is a tattler, cos if it weren't for the close proximity of the changes in colors, you couldn't see any wonkiness. I *lurve* strips and the only place they get really unhappy is as quilt backing and bias cuts or paper-piecing that is directional. They make really nice binding (cut across the stripes) and sashing can work well with them. Excellent effort and a bonus star to you for trying something new! ;)
ReplyDeleteLove the attempt! Too bad it didn't work, I bet it would have been really fun!
ReplyDeleteAwesome tip from Sharon. Your try was still pretty good.
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