Something tells me I’m just getting started with the idea of paper piecing and English paper piecing. Carolyn McCormick created and sells the handiest ruler called “Add A Quarter” like in the photo above. I have one, except mine is pink! She does some phenomenal quilts out of paper piecing – some with blocks as small…
Machine Quilting Party # 4
I haven’t posted as many photos of this particular sew-along but that’s because there will be just 12 large blocks, one per month. To put that in perspective, the Bloom sew-along that I’m doing is weekly for 20 weeks. The Splendid Sampler is semi-weekly with blocks that are released on Sundays and Thursdays. I decided…
Bloom block 12
Wow, and like that we’re already 60% through the Bloom quilt. I think I mentioned last week that I traced around the Pellon, sewed it to the individual shapes and basted those onto the background fabric before I left for the weekend. I was 35,000 feet in the air on the way to my destination when…
Block 15 – Family Affair
Back home in the evening and what did I see? A paper pieced block Now easy for me! That might be stretching the truth; I sewed almost every seam twice. But it was so much easier because by unexpected good fortune, I had just practiced paper piecing last week. I placed one that was a little short…
Block 14 – Flying High
Many thanks go out to Janet Clare for a timely block for Thursday’s Splendid Sampler, as I will be flying out of state this morning for a long weekend. I didn’t want to stretch the fabric since it’s so tiny, so I glue basted the little birds on before I finished it. The son and his friend were asking last…
snail’s trail
I saw that Accuquilt had a pattern for the snail’s trail block and theirs happened to use red, white and black fabric. Their pattern calls for equal amounts of black and white and double the red but I have double the white with equal amounts of red and black but that just means that white –…
Bloom block 11
The background fabric is an optical illusion; it looks like I have a piece of tape stuck on it but that’s really the print on the fabric. If it is still distracting when I complete the quilt, I’ll probably do some heavy quilting on this one to detract from it. This week’s bloom block from Lori…
Block 13 Scrap Stars
I made this into half of a Lemoyne star because I wanted the 4 star points to pop, and also because after trying out a number of fabrics, I didn’t find one for the other 4 that just had that wow factor. Other than a couple of bobbles, I like the way it turned out…
bobbin blunder
Here’s how my day is going so far! It’s going to take a while to get a new bobbin wound if it isn’t ending up on the spool.
Boden triangle challenge
I received some flowers for Easter a couple of days ago and thought they would look nice next to the piano, but I didn’t have a mat to put the vase on and I didn’t want to take a chance of getting water on the piano. In the meantime, Pat Sloan posted a Boden quilt challenge ….
Seeing red
This showed up on my doorstep last night! I am committed to finishing the quilting on the king before starting another large scale project but I liked it enough to get it now.
Block 12 – Checkerboard
Hands down, this is the fastest block for The Splendid Sampler yet. Maybe because I love patchwork. I also need to give a big shout out though to Accuquilt though; from start to finish that saved me time by using my 1.5″ strip die with my Go cutter. First it saved time with the cutting, but then because my…