Paper Piecing
When Spring rolls around, I always get the urge to get out of the house and learn something new or meet some new people. Since I don't think I'm going to get to MS&W this year (I'm going to try to shoot for Rhinebeck again) I thought it would be fun to treat myself to another quilting class. I enrolled in the Paper Piecing workshop at Quiltology and the first evening was just a big scrappy hoot!
There was a big pile of scraps to work from and we all got to try out the templates for a couple of simple blocks. I was amazed at how fast I got these together! I probably had both of them done in about an hour, and there is nothing cooler than having these wonderfully perfectly square blocks! The stripey one is probably the one I like best, because I just grabbed scraps as I went and sewed them on. I didn't think too much and I am pleased with the result. It had never occurred to me before this class to think about keeping scraps of fabric, but this class has changed the way I look at those left over bits of fabric from my projects.
As part of the class, I am going to work on a very small quilt project based on the stripey square It's going to be 4 blocks by 4 blocks and that featured fabrics are going to be purples and yellows. I spent some time playing with Electric Quilt 5 to get a pattern I really like that isn't something you'd entirely expect -- I say that because it was something that just sort of popped out at me as I messed around with the tools, and I definitely wasn't expecting it either.
Time to get cutting and sewing!
There was a big pile of scraps to work from and we all got to try out the templates for a couple of simple blocks. I was amazed at how fast I got these together! I probably had both of them done in about an hour, and there is nothing cooler than having these wonderfully perfectly square blocks! The stripey one is probably the one I like best, because I just grabbed scraps as I went and sewed them on. I didn't think too much and I am pleased with the result. It had never occurred to me before this class to think about keeping scraps of fabric, but this class has changed the way I look at those left over bits of fabric from my projects.
As part of the class, I am going to work on a very small quilt project based on the stripey square It's going to be 4 blocks by 4 blocks and that featured fabrics are going to be purples and yellows. I spent some time playing with Electric Quilt 5 to get a pattern I really like that isn't something you'd entirely expect -- I say that because it was something that just sort of popped out at me as I messed around with the tools, and I definitely wasn't expecting it either.
Time to get cutting and sewing!
Aw, that's too bad about MDS&W. It would have been great fun to get the kids together! Please let me know if you decide to go at the last minute ... am shooting for Rhinebeck, so there may be some hope of meeting this year (though I'll be in Chicago in exactly a year for a major medical meeting...)
I've done some paper piecing and I hated it! I'm glad you're experience is better.
Wow. I just love the little paisley square.
How big do you expect a 4x4 quilt to be? I am just having the darnedest time visualizing the size.