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Ohio Star Quilt Block in Polymer Clay

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It looked so easy!    I had almost all the tools.   When I was at the Quiltedinclay.com website, I thought, “ooh what fun that will be.”   So I ordered one of the quilt disc sets and later realized if I was serious about this project, I should have ordered the 2 nd set.   So I did. I decided to make the ‘Ohio Star’ pattern when the disc set came.   I read the instructions – 3 times.   Since I wanted to make the extrusions that night, I had to find enough light and dark clay of one color for the project.   Yellow and Copper.   It seems I need more practice reading instructions.   I kind of ‘fly by the seat of my pants’ and when I see something I make up my own instructions to get it done.   Usually that works.   But I know enough about quilting to know these shapes of clay need to be precise.   24" long extruded triangle and squares I figured out I would need a total of 13 long extrusions of dark and light colored clay. The extrusions as you can see in the photo are