I learned a couple of new paper piecing tricks yesterday! First of all, I decided to paper piece the block today. I figured that was just as easy as cutting out a template, plus it would give me an opportunity to try something that I learned yesterday. If you look at the first 3…
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Block 34 – Lemonade Block
If you are working Splendid Sampler blocks and are about to start block 34, do yourself a favor and get out a disappearing glue stick. I think you’ll thank me in the end. Then while you’re at it, if you have a governor on your foot pedal set it to the slowest speed and the…
lunch hour progress
Before I do anything else, I have to brag on my dear friend, Lisa. She brought me the nicest present last night! It’s a zippered pouch that uses the fabric and leaves from the Bloom block, and the Dresden is from the Splendid Sampler block that we did not too long ago. Isn’t that pretty…
Block 32 – The Constant Needle
Wow am I ever running in 20 different directions this week! I’m taking a quick break to post a few pictures and then I’ll be off running again. Here’s the Bloom quilt with all 20 blocks sewn together. I also sewed the top, left, and right sashing but didn’t get a picture of it yet….
Block 31 – Blossoming
It took me part of Saturday evening, Sunday, Monday, and early Tuesday morning – but I hand stitched everything on the block designed by Jenny Reynolds! I saw she had stitched 3 variations of it, which made me feel comfortable with switching up the skeins used to adapt it to the colors in my sampler. I…
Block 30 – Simple Surprises
Let me count the ways I love this block! Geometry was one of my favorite classes in high school – I like the preciseness of the angles, and how if you change one thing there is an equal and opposite reaction to it. And after looking at my blocks, I was also looking for more…
Block 29 – Scrappy Happy Heart
The story of this block starts back in the first half of April. I had signed up for a workshop by Becky Goldsmith to learn about the value of color as it relates to the other colors around it. The class requirements were some grey fabric for the background, and a slew of different blue fabrics, cut…
Block 28 – Stitching Fashion
Does this block look like it was hard to make? I sure hope it does. I hope that you can look at that, see a 6″ finished block and then imagine just how incredibly tiny some of the pieces are on here, like the top of the bodice. And the teeny tiny triangle at the…
give me an inch and I’ll take a mile
It’s another paper pieced block – with a twist. See that piece A3 there? It’s 2/8″ by 3/8″ – if I’m being generous with the ruler. Do the math, and that comes out to less than one square inch for that little piece. A2 is only 2/8″ tall, and A4 isn’t much more than that….
Block 27 – Sewing Machine
How about that for timing? The 27th block for The Splendid Sampler closely resembles a Singer Featherweight! Good timing, Pat Sloan! I looked for the darkest fabric in my stash that I’m using for this project to get close to the ebony color of my own 1949 Singer Featherweight. And of course the heart would be pink. And since…
Block 26 – Dreaming of Dresdens
I started the Splendid Sampler block Thursday evening and finished up Friday; this was a good block to break up into at least 2 or more segments because there are some steps in here that took some time. The Dresden pieces themselves were actually really easy to make. An accurate quarter inch seam was the key to…
Bloom block 17
I actually finished up the first block of the last row of the Bloom blocks earlier this week. I don’t know if Lori has spelled it out but I think we will probably spend a couple of more weeks putting together the sashing and border. In sewing machine news, I am giving serious thought to…