Paper Piecing Monday part….

Okay I am loosing count of how many Paper Piecing Monday’s I have done (could be jet lag!). It does not seem to matter too much…. the more the merrier right. So this week I mixed up the patterns again from Carol Doak’s 50 Fabulous Paper Pieced Stars to make this.

I went back to scrappy this week, using part of the Oklahoma block and part of the Ohio block from the book. The block took 92 pieces, some of them very small. It was a great way to use up more bits and pieces I had collected.

I am not looking forward to pulling the paper pattern off this star, but that is the price you pay for paper piecing accuracy.

6Mar2013

Vacation Time

Posted in Other fun stuff by wombatquilts

I am sorry about the lack of fabric and quilting based things on this site this week. I am currently in Australia visiting family. As a consolation I give you…..

An actual wombat.

We spent the morning at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary exploring the weird and wonderful world of Australian animals. My husband, who had never been Down Under wanted his photo taken with a koala. Here are the cheesy results.

Regular service will start back up the week of the 18th of March.

4Mar2013

Paper Piecing Monday

Posted in Paper Piecing Monday, Quilt patterns by wombatquilts

Back again for another Monday of paper fun. I worked again this week from 50 Fabulous Paper Piecing Stars but shook it up a bit. In the front of the book the author outlines how to make the 50 patterns in the book go a little further, by using two different patterns to make one block. Here is the results of my first experiment.

This star uses one half of the Utah star and one half of the Nebraska star, to make a fabulous new star using just 52 pieces to make. I did go less scrappy this time – keeping the attention on the pattern and not the individual block pieces.

I am still not sure if these pointy stars will fit in with the compass stars I have already made but I am having such fun making them all. So see you next week for the next installment.

1Mar2013

Colours of this week are purple & aqua!

Posted in Finished Quilts, Project Linus, Quilt patterns, Quilts, Scrap quilts by wombatquilts

This week has been a weird week. I have not got as much done as I would have liked, as our family is preparing to run away to Australia for a couple of weeks. In between the packing and the last-minute shopping I did managed to get this quilt finished.

This quilt is made up of 16 of these 12 inch blocks.

I used a really easy pinwheel paper piecing pattern and lots and lots of scraps of fabric. There are a number of simpler versions of this block on the web but I love the extra punch of the added pinwheel. The pattern and dimensions I used are:

Eight of these pieces make up one of the finished blocks. If I was to do the quilt again I would probably stick with more strongly contrasting fabrics – the blocks that have the dark purple against the aqua are so much more punchy I think . The contrast makes the pinwheel pattern really pop.

I am still doing just straight quilting…. maybe when I return from vacation I will be sufficiently relaxed to forget the stippling nightmare. I have to be braver with my quilting. The backing is a selection of different fabrics I had in my stash. Nothing too exciting but I like how it looks, particularly the Erin McMorris “Somersault” fabric.

I finished it all up with a scrappy purple binding. I do love scrappy binding – bits of solids, bits of prints, different shades, different patterns. The scrappy does not work with all quilts but it seemed to be just right for this one.