My Little Corner of the World

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This is "BRC, Sarah Jane", an intermediate-level corner piece for which I used the raw-edge machine-buttonhole stitch method of applique. On Jane Stickle's original quilt, this is the place where she embroidered the words...

In War Time

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Jane A. Stickle

I'm not sure if I will embroider anything on this block or if I will just put a label on the back of the quilt. I'll decide that once the quilting and binding are finished.

So, this is it...the last of the blocks/triangles/corner kites. Now I will add a border around the entire quilt which will be scalloped later on. Stay tuned next week for a photo of the entire top....Can you stand the excitement?

Cutting Corners

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This is "TRC, Longwood", an advanced-level corner piece that I mostly paper pieced and then added the two small stars using the raw-edge machine-buttonhole stitch method of applique. Again, the software said "this applique block cannot be paper pieced". No, the whole thing can't be, but a good part of it can. So again I drafted my own paper piecing pattern for part of it.

Rounding the Corner

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This is "TLC (Top Left Corner), Sadie Rose", an intermediate-level corner kite piece for which I used the raw-edge machine-buttonhole stitch method of applique. Not nearly as time-consuming as the first corner piece that I blogged about in my previous post.

In This Corner...

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I decided to start with the hardest corner piece first. It wasn't really all that hard, just very time-consuming. But that's to be expected when it has 74 pieces (76 if you add the two adjoining dark triangles on the top and right.

"This is BLC (Bottom Left Corner), Goshen", an advanced-level corner kite piece that I paper pieced. This is where I rant about the software -- when I tried to print a paper-piecing pattern for this kite, the software said that "this applique block cannot be paper pieced". That's absurd...this block is not appliqued and a pattern can easily be made to paper piece it. So that's what I did. I paid good money for the software and it has bugs like this? And they haven't provided patches for downloading?