Niemeyer pattern ?

Is this the pattern? I'm assuming yes. It's beautiful.

There are a lot of Flying Geese units and HST units. Plus the skinny little points on the star. On those small HST and FGU you will have almost as much seam allowance fabric as you have visible fabric. And depending how they advise you to cut the star points -- you might have considerable waste there, also.

A 60" square is about 2.5 yards of fabric straight up. So to do all the small piecing -- and triangles at that -- I'm guessing it is pretty accurate.

I did one of her patterns years and years ago (her wedding star). I know I bought extra -- and I really don't how the yardage worked out.

But it is a gorgeous pattern... something you'll use forever (and I'm betting your kids will fight over who gets it when the time comes....).

So bite the bullet and splurge if you can. I think you'll be glad you did!!!

Good luck whatever you decide.

No experience with Neimeyer here, Taria but 3 thoughts. (1) paper piecing seems to waste a heap of fabric so it probably would take more than you'd think. (2) 60" is pretty big. Maybe even really, Really big. (3) I'm on a mission to get rid of things that are taking up space here so I used old sheets for backing the 4 skirts just finished. Nobody's going to make up a bed with your skirt or see the back ( unless you have a resident QI who likes to get comfortable) so you can save some $s there. Can you show us the pattern? Share your plans. We wanna see. Polly

"Taria" I have a Judy Neimeyer pattern for the celebration tree skirt. I am not a

Just a thought, Taria: if you make one, in the first instance, and the yardage is way over the top, you might have enough left for a second one? The often-used way of foundation paper piecing, just 'slapping' on a chunk of fabric and cutting off the leftover, *is*, as Polly says, terribly wasteful. However, I can't remember who advocated the following method, but I use it all the time now, and it wastes hardly anything. It is especially useful when you are doing multiples of the same pattern eg those Flying Geese.

When you have your pattern 'drawn' out (or bought!), make an extra one. Cut this one up into component parts to use as rough templates. When you have your fabric chosen for each part, place the 'template' onto the reverse of the fabric (safer in case it isn't all symmetrical, though yours is). Leaving about half an inch all round, cut this out. Just continue with however many you need. You then have a little pile of accurately angled and almost the right sized pieces. This is tremendously helpful with triangles and odd shapes, because you get the angles right for their placement, and you *know* the piece is going to be large enough. When you have the little piles of pieces cut out, put them in the correct order, according to the numbering on the pattern, and you're away.

This is also a handy method if you want to 'fussy cut' any of your pieces.

. In message , Taria writes

I did this very pattern at a class last winter. I love the way it turned out. I have done a bit of paper piecing the Carol Doak way and found it easy and fun. Judy Neimeyer patterns use a little different method and this one especially. It has templates in the pattern for cutting all the pieces before you paper-piece them. It is really very organized. Have lots of zip lock bags to put the pre-cut pieces in and organize and it will go well. I don't remember having a lot of material left over.

I will post a pic later, I have to head to work now.

Let me tell you about another way for pieces to wander about. I had this brilliant idea that I would cut the pieces for each block and place them between sheets construction paper. The theory is orderly but the effect was traumatic. Now and then, a piece would sneak itself onto the bottom side of the paper and hide - until I had growled, searched, failed and replaced it. Zips would be better - unless, of course, your QIs have learned to undo or chew through them. Gotta love 'em. Polly

"Taria" Thanks Pat. I wonder if I do two do I really need double the fabric?

I very much doubt it! I do understand about the organising of small pieces of fabric - in piles! I'm afraid my kitties never get the chance to get into my sewing room if I in the middle of construction. Thus I can carefully arrange the piles on a nearby table or board (if the table is full >g

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< Thisdoesn't pertain to yardage, but it's good to check for patterncorrections when starting something new. There are severalcorrections on Judy's page for various patterns of hers. I lovethis tree skirt! No...no...no........I can't order it....I can'torder it....can't order...........KJ

Hey Kathyl, Sure you can order it. It really is ok. Thanks for reminding me of the corrections. I was there before I got the pattern. You probably saved me a bunch of trouble! TAria