Paisley Pirouette Quilt - Echidna Sewing Products

Quilt InstructionsStarsTo machine piece the stars, place the rotary cut pieces with right sidescarefully together and machine with an accurate ¼” seam allowance. To assistwith set in seams you may choose to place a small dot on the back of your fabricusing the holes provided.To hand piece you can choose to either rotary cut around each template or tracearound with a sharp pencil, mark your ¼” seam allowance through the holesprovided and then draw a seam line between the dots. Using a small runningstitch and following the line, hand stitch, starting and stopping at the dots.Cutting the Five inch stars:Cut a strip of background fabric, 2” wide. From this strip rotary cut squares usingthe template marked 5A.Cut a strip of background, 1” wide. From this strip rotary cut triangles using thetemplate marked 5B.Cut a strip from star fabrics, 1” wide and rotary cut diamonds using thetemplate marked 5C, trim to the exact size of the template.5A2”5 B1 ”5 C1 ”Piecing the stars:Each large Lemoyne star is created using four, template A squares, four templateB triangles and eight template C diamonds. Our star is pieced using one fabric inposition C. You may choose to use more colours or use only the one. You mayCopyright© 2009 Janet Sansom – Paisley Pirouette Quilt 6