Description
The Feathered Star is an all-time quilter’s favorite, and Marsha McCloskey has been collecting these intricate designs for many years. She has two block collections now in print, Feathered Star Quilt Blocks I and II, and she has designed a Feathered Star Ruler that measures 8ths and 16ths without having to “eyeball” between the ruler lines.
Feathered Star quilts aren’t particularly difficult, but they have a lot of pieces and take time. The results are well worth the effort. It’s a design that invites you to slow down and do your best work. Marsha will show you how and tell you why.
Registration closes 10/23/2020
You’ll love this workshop if you:
- Love Feathered Stars, and making one is on your bucket list
- Want to learn to draft your own pieced patterns
- Want to learn how to make design and size changes in pieced patterns you have drafted
- Want to learn a technique for making 2-triangle squares that gives you precise units without drawing lines, trimming “dog ears,” or using paper
- Want to increase the accuracy of your piecing
- Like precision in your cutting
- Want to perfect your machine piecing
- Love adding finishing touches to your quilts.
Workshop Outline:
Lesson 1: Introducing Marsha McCloskey and Feathered Stars
- A short history of Feathered Star quilts and how they became Marsha’s passion
- How to tell the different Feathered Star quilt block types apart
- How to choose fabrics for our Radiant Feathered Star Wall Hanging project
Lesson 2: Drafting the Radiant Feathered Star Wall Hanging
- Draw the basic Radiant Feathered Star on graph paper
- Identify the shapes that need to be cut
- Add seam allowances to shapes to get cutting dimensions
- Modify the design and make it larger or smaller
Lesson 3: Making Feather Squares with Bias-Strip Piecing
- Make the Bias-Strip set-up
- Estimate fabric to make the number of units needed for a Feathered Star block
- Determine strip width for different sized 2-triangle squares
- Use Marsha’s Feathered Star ruler
Lesson 4: Rotary Cutting the Other Shapes
- Choose fabrics for the different parts of the design
- Cut half-square and quarter-square triangles and trim the points for easy matching
- Cut accurate diamonds, octagons, and kites
- Cut the large trapezoids for the outside pieces
- Determine when pieces need to be cut to exact size and when to use a cut-it-larger, trim-it down approach
Lesson 5: Piecing the Units
- Achieve an accurate seam allowance
- Organize the pieces for sewing
- Stitch and press the different units with the utmost accuracy
Lesson 6: Joining the Units, Finishing the Block
- Finish partial seams and join the units together
- Make the outer triangle units using a set-in seam
- Join the outer triangles to the finished block
- Plan a Dogtooth border to enlarge the wall hanging
Feathered Star Quilt Supply List:
Feathered Star Quilt Kit
3/4 yard light large-scale floral for background
1 fat quarter dark print for feather triangles and diamonds
1 fat quarter medium-scale print for kites
1 fat quarter large-scale dark print for center and large triangles
Fabrics to match the class project are available here: Feathered Star Quilt Kit
Drafting Supplies: 18″ C-THRU drawing ruler (B-85)*, sharp pencil, eraser, colored pencils, compass. Large sheet of 1/8” graph paper (17″ x 22″) – each student will need one sheet.
Drawing ruler and graph paper are available on my website http://www.marshamccloskey.com/rulandnot.html
Sewing machine and normal sewing supplies. Iron and ironing board.
Feathered Star Ruler
Precision Trimmer 3 Ruler
Feathered Star Quilt Blocks I Book
OPTIONAL:
Small zip-lock bags.
Portable Design Board for organizing sewing. See instructions on the blog
Sewing Machine needles: Schmetz Microtex Sharp Needle 70/10*
Clover 4 mm pins (1-1/2”long) Art No. 2507 Extra fine pins*
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