Now to paper piecing... I got together with my friend's mom and a friend of hers to do paper piecing. Mrs. D has taken a class on paper piecing with Carol Doak and has done a few quilts using the technique so I wanted to learn. Mary - follow quilter and blogger, wanted to learn too so the three of us got together yesterday afternoon and had a "class". It was fun. I got two paper pieced blocks done while I was there and did two more and put it all together when I got home. Here's my end result...
Cute, springy tulips. I had to piece together the bottom border because I was running low on the pink polka dot fabric. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. I'm tempted just to frame it and hang it on my wall as art. OR I'll quilt it so that I can get more quilting practice in and figure out how to do binding before I bind my first quilt and then hang it on the wall as art. Undecided at this point. But my husband liked it so I'm going to enlarge the block and I'll make a table topper for our dining table.The technique is really easy once you get started. I borrowed a book on the process and was totally confused which is why the "class" was needed. Now I got it. Now I'm going to do more! My plan is to make a pillow for Punkie with her name paper pieced in blocks. I saw a pillow in one of my many quilt magazine ages ago but it used a fabric panel with letters on it. Mrs. D. mentioned that paper piecing would be easy to do for that. I think she's right.
Add yet another project to my ever growing list in my head! I think I need to start writing these things down!
Enjoy your day!
Jen
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Yeah on the no gain. That is a great success. Love your paper pieced block.
ReplyDeleteHi Jen, I had so much fun yesterday, meeting you and piecing together.Yours looks great, today Brenda and I took advantage oy the president sales, got more material to start a strip lap quilt, so I guess I will be cutting strips tohight.
ReplyDeleteHave a great day
Mary
Oh, I love your tulips. I plan on doing a tulip quilt soon. I say soon, but it might be some time...LOL. I do have the fabrics purchased though. Your's is so cheerful!
ReplyDeleteI hear you about not being good. I was right there with you this week.
your paper piecing looks great! that's one my mom tells me is easy and i should be able to figure out myself - but i'm much better seeing someone do it first. good job on not gaining - hopefully out of sight out of mind does work for you (or the kiddos and DH get snacky on the cookies)
ReplyDeleteI heald steady this week too and am thankful for it. I also had too many sweets. :0) Now we need to both have a losing week!
ReplyDeleteI love these blocks, I actually just recently drew up a quilt in EQ using these, but in a different way. Paper piecing is awesome too. Now that I know how to do it I paper piece all the time.
ReplyDeleteThe word verification down below to post this comment says "poonn". I don't know why but that is hilarious to me!!!! ROTFL