Paper Piecing Blocks
So here is my idea for my paper pieced quilt project and the 5 fat quarters I picked up for the project. Due to an indoor shot with flash, the purples look a lot more blue than they are and the far left fabric is not quite as orange as all that. Yellow and purple are color wheel opposites, so they tend to go well together. Which is good rationalization now for the blog. When I was at the store picking them out, they were in the sale bin and I just happened to like them -- and I knew that for the quilt I was going to make, a big floral wouldn't end up looking all that big or floral when cut into strips.
The design for the quilt was made with the help of Electric Quilt 5. It's a rough approximation of the colors I have. I didn't feel like scanning the fabrics in, so I just used the closest things I could find that were already in the program's fabric library. The individual blocks are pretty close to the same as the striped block in my previous post, although I made a few small modifications to make some lines match up better. I spent a while rotating blocks to see what interesting designs I could get with those stripes. When I happened up on this one, I knew it was the project I wanted to work on.
Then I had to spend some time figuring out if I had enough fabric (just barely when it comes to the two darkest colors) and what I needed to cut and measure to get the pieces I needed to start with. Both some measuring and some math was done to make this determination. One thing that is nice about this style of block formation: I didn't need to be too rigid about cutting. The cutting of strips was more about making sure I had enough fabric than anything else.
I like the strips and how they go together after laying them out the way they will be arranged in the square. Now it's just a matter of getting to the business of sewing them together so that I can start playing with orientation. If my in class experience is any example, it shouldn't take me too long to get 16 6" x 6" blocks made up. Having all the strips pre-cut and being able to chain piece the sewing should make the block construction a breeze.
The design for the quilt was made with the help of Electric Quilt 5. It's a rough approximation of the colors I have. I didn't feel like scanning the fabrics in, so I just used the closest things I could find that were already in the program's fabric library. The individual blocks are pretty close to the same as the striped block in my previous post, although I made a few small modifications to make some lines match up better. I spent a while rotating blocks to see what interesting designs I could get with those stripes. When I happened up on this one, I knew it was the project I wanted to work on.
Then I had to spend some time figuring out if I had enough fabric (just barely when it comes to the two darkest colors) and what I needed to cut and measure to get the pieces I needed to start with. Both some measuring and some math was done to make this determination. One thing that is nice about this style of block formation: I didn't need to be too rigid about cutting. The cutting of strips was more about making sure I had enough fabric than anything else. I like the strips and how they go together after laying them out the way they will be arranged in the square. Now it's just a matter of getting to the business of sewing them together so that I can start playing with orientation. If my in class experience is any example, it shouldn't take me too long to get 16 6" x 6" blocks made up. Having all the strips pre-cut and being able to chain piece the sewing should make the block construction a breeze.
These are great colors. It took me a while (I'm slow today. I promise that I'm not always this slow) to realize that the sample you had on the bottom was the same as one square in your finished paper quilt on the top.
Very pretty! I like those colour combinations.