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Star Surround Quilt - Cutting

7/31/2013

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I’ve made it through Week 2 of the Star Surround Quilt Along!  During Week 1, I selected my fabrics and then our Week 2 assignment was to cut all the pieces.
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I chose to do the 4 x 4 layout with 16” blocks and a scrappy layout.  Normally that would use 16 star fabrics but you may recall I’m using 8 fabrics.  So in Melissa’s cutting chart below (click the pic to see this week’s full instructions), I had to double the cutting amounts for each fabric:
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The number of pieces to cut for the background fabric is the same as what she posted:
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Melissa also has some really great tips for cutting all these pieces and effectively using the rotary cutter.  Check out her post for more info on it.  Thanks to my handy dandy rotary cutter, I was able to get all 880 pieces cut out (yikes, what was I thinking?!?!).  Something tells me this quilt is going to be way more work than I anticipated, LOL.
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See below for all the stages of the Star Surround Quilt Along!
My Progress
Week 1: Planning
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Week 2: Cutting
See Above!!
Official QA Instructions
Week 1: Planning
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Week 2: Cutting
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Week 3: Half Square Triangles (coming soon)
Week 4: Flying Geese (coming soon)
Week 5: Building Block Centers (coming soon)
Week 6: Building Block Surround (coming soon)
Week 7: Piecing the Quilt Top (coming soon)
Week 10: Quilting & Finishing (coming soon)
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