After the final round and Radials was completed I laid it all out on the kitchen floor to square it off and to see if I had enough stars. After I had decided the size and juggled a few stars - deciding which colour some of the multcoloured one were was tricky I worked out that I needed 11 more stars. So that was 11 more ties to buy, not counting the 8 I had bought that morning! Actually I had bought 9 but discovered one was not pure silk - it was labelled Myung Ju silk but it melted when burnt, as did another one which I am sure did say was silk. That meant I needed 12 more. Plus a lot more black diamonds - nearly 400! I shall probably have to buy some new silk. So the stitching has come to a halt while I complete the remaining stars, then I shall do the black ones before finally deciding which star goes where for the remaining
corners, and sides
