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Kaleidoscope Star – Lesson 2
After much procrastination on my part, Lesson 2 is done!
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All Our Quilts
A couple of months ago I joined a wonderful online quilters’ group at AllOurQuilts.com. The site has been online a relatively short period of time and is growing by the day.
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Round 3 Quilted
I chose to quilt using a coordinating pattern for the main diamond in this round.
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The small accent diamonds were quilted using a straight line stitch 1/8th inch apart. |
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The zigzag stitch on the blue border coordinates with the brown triangles. I established guides by marking tips of brown triangle with a water soluble marker. |
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Round 3 added
Round 3 added to quilt and stablized.
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Starting Round 3
Sugar Bowl
I’m in the process of making 54 of these blocks.
 Sugar Bowl corner block |
I’ll need to make 4 corner blocks |
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Still Plugging Away on Round 2 Quilting
I’m down to quilting the last 2 squares of this round. Seems to take forever….so much going on….so little time.
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Quilting Round 2
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I’ve chosen three different patterns for the center of the Navajo squares for this round. This first one will be quilted on the corner squares and the middle squares of the side panels. |  |
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This pattern will be alternated with the pattern following in the remaining squares. |  |
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This is the third selection. |  |
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This is the pattern for the corner triangles.
The cream triangles will be quilted in the same manner as the center block. And I will stitch in the ditch outline each square around the different fabrics. |
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My assistant, Sunny, looks on as I continue to quilt this round…only 11 more squares to go. It’ll be several more days before I’m ready to start the next round. | |
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Adding the Second Round
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I’ve finished piecing together 14 additional Navajo squares. I then assembled 2 rows of 3 squares (sides) and 2 rows of 4 squares (top and bottom). I attached these rows (sides first) to the quilt using the same procedure utilized for Round 1. |
Next..quilting this round..
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Pattern Modification
I’m still plugging away at making the Round 2 Navajo squares. At the same time, I’ve been making some modifications to my design.
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My original pattern called for a 3-inch sash border after the Round 2 Navajo squares. I realized this created a problem for my final round of 9-inch squares. The horizontal rows for the final round were made up of squares a different size than the vertical rows for the round. Since I plan to paper-piece this round, it resulted in two different patterns for the round. I realized I needed to increase the sash border to 6 inches and reduce the final round squares to 6 inches to accomodate using 1 pattern for the final round. The result being all the squares are identical in size…6 x 6 inch squares. |
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Once I increased the sash size to 6 inches, I decided that a solid brown sash was too much for the overall look of the quilt. So I divided that round into 2 sections. The first is 4 inches wide with a series of big and little diamonds. The second is 2 inches wide with 1/2 inch strips of cream surrounding 1 inch of the blue fabric.
The overall size of the quilt remains the same. And I like the additional interest of the diamond borders between the two square rounds. The blue sash border breaks up the predominant browns on the outer edges of the quilt nicely. |
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Quilting the First Round
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First, I quilted in the ditch around all the various pieces of this round. After evaluating the round, I decided to quilt in the cream sections and leave the colored triangles alone. My goal was to make the brown and blue triangles pop out. |
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I used this pattern for the cream triangles adjacent to the blue and brown triangles. |
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I used this pattern for the blue, cream, and brown squares. |
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Then I decided to go back to the center Navajo squares and used this pattern for the cream triangles adjacent to the blue triangles. |
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