Embroidering a star

[mamapez]

I am making an American Flag afghan. I have the star field completed and am attempting to embroider stars on it. The field was knit from the side. I would have done intarsia stars, but I would like the star to look like a star on both sides. I tried outlining a star, but it doesn't look quite right. The top point either pulls to the left or the right depending on how I attempt it.
Does anyone have any recommendations?

I found a five pointed star fridgie to crochet...I'll have to make 100 though. :faint 50 for each side.

[BethyM99]

www.metcalf.d2g.com/bgallery.htm

I did a soaker with a big star on the butt. That was all I came up with. I think I freehanded it on some graph paper.

[mamapez]

I got an object not found error. :( I would love to see your star. Does it show up as a star on both sides?

[BethyM99]

Oops!

http://www.theknittykitty.com/bgallery.htm

It helps if I use the correct website ;) The other one is pictures of my kids :lol:

No, it was duplicate stitch so it didn't look like a star on the other side... :( I'd think you'd have to do an embroidery stitch... I'm not sure what it's called but long stitches... maybe one of the mamas that did patriotic last year can help?

[mamapez]

Your star is cute! I remember when you first posted that last year. :)

[BethyM99]

Has it been that long!! (Boy, what would we do without pam?) :)

[pamelamama]

:love

Did you work it out Ms. Pez?

[mamapez]

Well, I started to crochet a million stars and my hands cramped. Then I thought that crooked stars didn't seem so bad, but the thought of embroidering 50 stars made me want to faint. So now I think I'm going to frog the star field and try again with intarsia. If it looks really horrible on the back, I guess I'll make two star fields and sew them back to back. *sigh* None of the ways seem so great...