
I got all of these stars finished over the weekend. I spent several hours in the car on the way to and from Fortuna/Ferndale.
As an aside, if you haven’t visited Ferndale, it has a lovely Victorian main street (I posted some photos a few years ago) with lots of nice shops. Fortuna is more modern, but there are some great shops and a wonderful Mexican restaurant called La Costa where they make their own tortillas.
Both directions are about a 5 hour drive and DH drove on this trip. It rained and I am not a very good passenger. Having my focus on something else is a good thing.
One thing I did differently was I sewed a couple of the stars together to start a line of them. I want to start putting the piece together. I also have to put some of the stars together, so I can start to take the papers out. I may need to buy another pack of papers.
I don’t have the background nailed down, though I am still thinking of dots on white. I am pretty sure I will use dots on white since they worked so well on Scrapitude. I loved the look. I just need to cut some pieces.
I really like the way the stars look. Are they a special pattern and do they have to be sewn by hand?
I am making them using Paperpieces.com half hexagons by hand. I think they could probably be done by machine, but there would be a lot of Y seams. Paperpieces.com has an acrylic rotary template that could be used for machine piecing.