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Stardance from Sew'n Wild Oaks Quilting Blog

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This is why you haven't heard a peep out of me lately. I've been finishing up my latest design, making kits and writing the pattern for Stardance. The pattern is available HERE in my Etsy shop.

Creating a pattern and preparing it for printing is a time-consuming process. My aim was to have this one completed before the kickoff of my very first Sew'n Wild Oaks retreat of 2025, which starts on April 27th—just one week away! I'm getting excited to see 'my girls'!

I combined my new Gentry's Mill fabric line ...

added by Lynn 1 week, 6 days ago. under stardance

Snow'n Wild Oaks from Sew'n Wild Oaks Quilting Blog

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Yesterday I changed the name of my company to Snow'n Wild Oaks instead of Sew'n Wild Oaks. I worked in the dining room on Stardance, my newest design incorporating my Hearthstone fabric line with Gentry's Mill.

It was like being in a snow globe and I kept getting distracted while looking outside. It seems as though I either need to start making smaller quilts or buy a larger table! I was measuring and squaring up the quilt and cutting border fabric. It is so much easier to have the quilt on the table instead of ...

added by Lynn 1 month ago. under snow day , stardance

Stardance Is Almost a Wrap from Sew'n Wild Oaks Quilting Blog

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It' has been a whirlwind of fun activities over the past few days. Between all of the fun, I was able to get Stardance together. I have to get this finished before my retreat at the end of April.

We headed down out of the mountains to the SF Bay Area to watch our grandson play in a high school lacrosse game Friday night. Kade is #6.

We were the Home team and the score says it all.

The next day was our eldest son's 50th birthday party. (You know I was only 6 years old when ...

added by Lynn 1 month, 1 week ago. under chuck , stardance

Stardance Update from Sew'n Wild Oaks Quilting Blog

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In between working on paperwork, and shipping Gentry's Mill BOM patterns, I've been working on Stardance. This is one of my favorite blocks.

The blocks are all made, and the pattern writing is coming along nicely. As time permits, I disappear into my sewing room, even if only an hour or two, and I work on this quilt. The little white notes are the block numbers. There are 10 different colorways of the star blocks, and the courthouse steps blocks.

It's a crisp 32 degrees this morning and the snow on the ground is now ...

added by Lynn 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under stardance

Stardance Update from Sew'n Wild Oaks Quilting Blog

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We've had the perfect weather for quilting, rainy, windy, and cozy. This is the best weather to sequester myself away in my quilting room and work on Stardance.

The Courthouse Steps blocks go together much quicker than the star blocks. I can make four of them at a time in no time at all.

I've been ordering bolts and bolts of fabric to make kits for this design. I can't start cutting until I finish making the quilt, so until then, the bolts will stack up.

While I'm making the blocks and putting them ...

added by Lynn 2 months, 4 weeks ago. under stardance

Stardance Update from Sew'n Wild Oaks Quilting Blog

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I have so many fun things planned for the day that it's hard to decide what to do next. I've been playing around with Stardance in EQ8. This is what I decided on yesterday.....that could change today.....but I'm really liking this look of the well-defined star blocks dancing around the quilt.

This is what the design looked like before I started to play. The blocks were cut off and I think they looked incomplete. To remedy that, I made half-blocks to put in the border.

I keep adding to my little pile of ...

added by Lynn 3 months, 1 week ago. under gentry's mill , stardance

Stardance from Sew'n Wild Oaks Quilting Blog

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I've been working on a new design, and I have a nice little assortment of blocks for Stardance. This is a snapshot of what I'm working on in EQ software.

This is what the actual block looks like. I love that what I see in EQ software is very similar to the real block.

This is a snapshot of another block in the quilt in EQ. The block placement in the quilt determines the framing around the block.

This is the actual block.

I'm combining my Gentry's Mill fabric line with my Hearthstone fabric ...

added by Lynn 3 months, 2 weeks ago. under eq software , gentry's mill , hearthstone , stardance

Stardance Quilt from Sew'n Wild Oaks Quilting Blog

Hello Everyone,

Thank you all for your input about the organizational sheet that I'm going to start including in my patterns. I used it while making the first four blocks for my new Stardance pattern. The stars will dance their way across the quilt.

I'm going to make 40 blocks in 10 different colorways. This is a picture of the first four blocks.

I took your suggestions to heart and reconfigured the organizational sheet to make it less busy. I used it while making the blocks and got a great deal of satisfaction checking off the components after ...

added by Lynn 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under gentry's mill , hearthstone , stardance

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