I finished up my 4th row yesterday evening on the purple star quilt and then kept right on going. I’ve finally found my rhythm on making the blocks. Each block is made of 4 identical sets, and each of those sets includes 4 units. I’ve found that making an entire row – 20 sets –…
Category: Paper piecing
I think I’ve had the same goal for 3 or 4 days now. Finish block 60 of the Splendid Sampler, and finish the 3rd row of the purple star quilt. I finally got one of those completed yesterday – yay! The picture of this is actually rotated which hopefully explains why the left side –…
Block 58 – Homeward Bound
First things first. I saw that our LQS had posted a photo of the flamingo fabric and immediately started thinking “what can I make out of that?”. Why, more pillowcases of course! A friend of mine has also been making pillowcases lately and she texted me a picture of one she had done that had…
9 down, 16 to go
I wanted to get a quick idea of how these would look together, so I went out of order and sewed 2 rows of 2. That means that I needed to finish four more sets of 2 before I can get back to sewing these one row at a time. So…for now I need to…
Here’s why I changed fabric
It’s not that I didn’t like the original fabric I had picked out. Rather, the quilt pattern really has two distinct patterns that weave in and out and it makes more of an impact with there being a distinct difference between the blue and the purple. And when you see just one block like this…
Christmas quilt -done!
I am officially finished with the Sergeant Pepper Christmas quilt! I sped through the binding – and yes, I did sew it by hand like I should have. I had thought I would do a binding like what I used for the 1″ strips between triangles but it didn’t go well with the fabric on…
Block #54 – Shell
I started to write two blog posts, just so I could name this one “Harry Chapin Quilting Design”. I slept on it and decided the way I wanted to quilt this was straight vertical lines, then straight lines at 60 degree angles to match the large triangles on here, and finally different sizes of circles…
Block 50 – Flights of Fancy
Halfway done! I was afraid we might celebrate with the hardest block yet, but that paper pieced dress still holds that distinction. I pieced this one per the directions to see if I’m at better now with those 1″ pieces than I was when I started. The jury is still out. The first thing I…
Block 48 – Whim
‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ I took one look at today’s block and let out a “woo hoo!”. It’s a beginner’s paper piecing block. I could probably knock this one out in 10 minutes! Except I didn’t catch that I had a piece of fabric that didn’t lay flat…
Block 46 Twirl Time!
What’s wrong with this finished picture? Or put another way – theoretically…if I person accidentally made a rotated image of the pattern, is it still the same pattern or is it a new one? My apologies to the wonderful designer, the very talented Sarah Maxwell. I had this bright idea that I would paper piece…
Block 42 – Pencils
Whew! An easy paper pieced block. Jane always has challenging blocks that really stretch my growth, but this week I saw her design and realized she gave us all a break. These always look a bit “off” when the design lines up with the edge, but when it’s sewn with the seam allowance it will…