PROGRESS ON THE STAR FISH

Progress with fish fabric

For the last few days, I've been hand piecing my fish fabric Texas Stars and one inch hexagons.  This is my progress so far.  I started out with 33 Texas Stars.  Here I've used 32.  One lonely star left out.  See the pink/blue star to the left of the photo? I think I'll use her in the label.  I plan to continue with hexagons all around as a border to the stars...perhaps several layers of Hexies.  I have no idea how I will end up with this.  That's the fun of it...create as you go kind of thing.  Time to press it.  I've pressed as I pieced but now I believe my little project can do with another pressing before I begin adding the Hexie borders........tick-tock...OK pressing done.

Pressed

Pressing is time consuming.  I find it much easier to press each star as I go and when a row or section is finished to press that section.

Pressed star block -back

Time to move on to the borders.

Texas Star Fun

Nice day today.  I worked on my Texas Tumblers this morning.  Added another star, put the tumblers with dark diamond to the left.  Then wondering what it would look like if I turned the lightest diamond on the tumbler to the top, I inverted my photo.

I liked it much better.  I needed to change a few blocks here and there.  ...and here's the last go round.  I'm sure I'll make changes as the Texas Tumbler grows.

Light diamond of tumbler on top

This afternoon went to my 3rd Tuesday group and brought along some kaleidoscope Texas stars to hand piece.  Yesterday, I printed up some star points from Fish Fabric below  using Inklingo Star Points .05/1.00 plus .5 Hexagons and working on little Texas Stars.  I got enough for 30 Stars.

Mini Kaleidoscope Stars

I plan to put them together with one inch Hexagons or maybe diamonds pieced into tumblers.  I'll be using creams and beige fabrics for the Hexies.