{"id":10611,"date":"2011-09-24T14:20:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=10611"},"modified":"2025-01-17T12:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:36:12","slug":"sampler-quilt-lemoyne-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/sampler-quilt-lemoyne-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Sampler Quilt: LeMoyne Star"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"LeMoyne<\/a>
LeMoyne Star<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I worked on the LeMoyne Star today. I had some work, which languished while I was out of town,so I had to do that as well, but it was great to get back to sewing a bit.<\/p>\n

The LeMoyne Star has some tricks, but is not very difficult to piece. I took pictures as I pieced it and will work on a tutorial for a future post. The key trick is to NEVER sew into the seam allowances. I did sew into the seam allowances along the outside edge towards the end of the process, but otherwise, I stopped shy of the seam allowance, or moved it out of the way as I was sewing. My stilletto came in handy. Choosing fabrics was a key piece of the process and took longer than I expected. The ‘make visual decisions visually’ adage worked well, though, because what I thought would look good didn’t look good at all. Below are some of the choices I considered:<\/p>\n

\"Alternate<\/a>
Alternate colorway from the Moda Bliss line<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dots<\/a>
Dots from Quilted Fish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bright<\/a>
Bright Flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Another<\/a>
Another Bliss Fabric<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Aqua-Red<\/a>
Aqua-Red Sampler Quilt Blocks -September 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Above are all of the blocks I have made for the class so far. Don’t they look nice? They are hogging up space on my design wall, so I will need to take them down, but I am pleased with how they are coming out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I worked on the LeMoyne Star today. I had some work, which languished while I was out of town,so I had to do that as well, but it was great to get back to sewing a bit. The LeMoyne Star has some tricks, but is not very difficult to piece. I took pictures as I … Continue reading “Sampler Quilt: LeMoyne Star”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[400],"tags":[349,331,380,142,359],"class_list":["post-10611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-400","tag-blocks","tag-piecing","tag-sampler","tag-sampler-quilt-class","tag-tutorial"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65396,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions\/65396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}