Paper Piecing Monday… better late than never

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Paper Piecing Monday was delayed a little this week by a stonking cold that took me out of action for a few days. I am feeling a little more human today and managed to get this simple little star block made, thru the Dayquil/Lemsip haze…

This block is 6 inches by 6 inches and was again designed in response to my search for smaller star blocks for my Starry Night Quilt. This is a much simpler block than last week, I got a ribbing for calling last week’s block “simple” at 40 pieces. This week’s 20 pieces is definitely simple…right! You can find the pattern here…Starry Night WQ block 2.

I like the 4 triangle piece pattern of this block and may fiddle some more with it to get some different kind of stars. Next week I am going to scale up and aim to get a 10 inch block designed and made… stay tuned.

6Jan2014

Yep more Starry Nights

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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I had struggled to find some smaller blocks for my Starry Night quilt, so I have been working on designing some smaller blocks for my quilt. This week’s block is a simple 8 inch block…

You can find the pattern I made here…WQ Starry Night Block 1. It is a simple 40 piece block with no really small pieces (which is the problem I found with shrinking a lot of the more complex patterns).

As a side…when I ran my test block I did not number the pattern, but I promise the attached pattern sheet has numbered pieces…promise.

30Dec2013

Another Starry Night wonder

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After a relaxing week off I am slowly getting back into the swing of quilting again…very slowly. For this week’s paper piecing Monday I decided to do another Carol Doak star.

I do love how this blocks look all fractured and broken but really beautiful at the same time. For this star I used the Washington Star pattern from my trusty copy of “50 Fabulous Paper Pieced Stars”.

This block, and it’s 64 pieces was a real scrap buster. I did not cut one piece of fabric to make this block and just used bits and pieces from my scrap bin. This process made me realise I have way to many little bits of fabric….sorting thru my scrap bins is now on my “Things to Do in 2014” list.

16Dec2013

Starry night goes small…

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I struggled this week to find some paper pieced patterns that would give me small (think 4 inches) but interesting stars. My quilt definitely needs some size variety and I am not insane enough to shrink down one of the more complex patterns to a tiny size…even I have limits. After a little bit of searching I found a version of this star….

The original pattern is from A Little Bit of Biased’s Paper Piecing Tutorial. I adapted the pattern a little to add a bit more complexity and ended up with this..

The shape of this star is so different from my other stars and it has a lovely wonky feel. As the block was so simple, I of course had to make two.

What a difference from last week…my complex 100 piece snowflake is followed by a simple 13 piece tiny star. What will next week bring?

13Dec2013

Block Rock’n Sampler quilt

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After a year of Paper Piecing Monday I have finally finished a quilt from my Monday blocks. I am very proud to present my Block Rock’n sampler quilt top.

All these blocks are from Julie at 627Handwork’s fabulous free Block Rock’n pattern collection. There are only two blocks from her collection missing from this quilt – my Icky Thump block became part of the beautiful Icicle quilt and Julie’s Floyd block which I have not made yet.

Block rockn quilt detail

For the record my favourite block is this beauty….

For the quilting of this lovely , I went with diagonal lines, which seemed appropriate with the off center block placement I went with.

For the backing I found some fabulously outrageous IKEA fabric in my stash which was just perfect. The photo does not do these neon lips justice.

The final touch was some solid Kona grey binding, which was attached using the sewing machine. I figured that this quilt might get a lot of love (and stains) and wanted it to be as durable as possible. Machine binding, though not as pretty as hand binding, in my opinion, does add some sturdiness.