Loser Monday and Paper Piecing

Nothing lost, nothing gained. That's where I am. I had a sweet filled weekend - that could be part of my issue too. I ate a LOT of sugar cookies over the weekend. Amelia and I made "sprinkle" cookies on Friday night for Valentine's Day and I can't stay out of them. I finally put them away - they were on the counter. Out of sight, out of mind. Hopefully.

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