Piecing a LeMoyne Star Block, Part 2
Well, I survived my high dose of glucose and the four needle sticks that the long form glucose tolerance test required. No results until late afternoon sometime today (Friday), but I'm optimistic. A lot more so than I was when I got on the bus to go to my doctor's office Thursday morning. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it was the nice woman who gave up her seat on the bus for me (completely unprompted on a very full bus) or the fact that it was such a nice morning when I had the test and I got to go walking between bleeds. Even if it doesn't help my glucose readings, the walking definitely made me feel better. How can you not be happy when the morning sun is shining over Lake Michigan and you can feel the breezes off the Lake? And I even managed to turn the heel on the second of my Sprung socks.
Anyway... to pick up where I left off yesterday, once you put those pieces back in place, it's time to add the next piece to the diamond, small triangle set that you have.
To do this, you simply place the larger triangle, right sides togther, aligned with the other edge of the diamond.
Once again, your pins are your friends! You want to line up the square corner of the triangle with the square corner of the diamond/small triangle combination and the edge of the diamond. You do this for all 4 diamond-small triangle pieces that you pieced in the first part.
As you did with the previous pieces you're going to iron open all the seams on the back sides of the pieces that you just sewed together. Now you have two triangles and a diamond fit together as a larger triangular piece that is the first half of the 4 square blocks that make up the larger LeMoyne Star block.
Once all the pieces are ironed, take them back to your table and lay them out where they should go. You're done with these pieces for a little while, but it's always nice to admire your handiwork.
The next thing you're going to do is repeat all these steps for the second batch of diamonds and triangles. It's the exact same process, only the final pieces are going to be mirror images of the first set of final pieces. When you're done with that, you'll be coming down the home stretch!
I love your tutorials, even if I am never likely to do any quilting myself it is nice to have a bit of insight into how it is done.
The stars are so beautiful! I really need to learn how to do this now. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thursday sounds like a good time, except for those needle sticks. Bah!
Good luck on the glucose test results. Nice that you got to go walking between the regular sticks. I took the long form test when I was on hospital bed rest with my twins and talk about uncomfy. I was crawling out of my skin from all that sugar!
Beautiful! And I'll be thinking good test result thoughts for you. I'm glad the testing itself went well -- it does help to have a nice day!
I'm thinking excellent passing glucose grades.
Thank you for this tutorial - it's giving me more confidence in tackling my first *real* quilt.
Hello, do you have the Baby Cashmerino blanket pattern to share? Thanks for letting me know, Deborah