Paper Piecing Wednesday edition 5

Posted in Paper Piecing Monday by wombatquilts

Welcome to what I think is my fifth time posting Paper Piecing Monday on a Wednesday. If you think how many PP Monday’s I have done 5 misses is not to bad…right!

Anyhow I have another Hodge Podge block for you this week.. this time it a 6 inch version of the classic Centennial block….

I had fun using all the the little bits of yellow I had laying around (many left over from my Starry Night Quilt) but using just one colour does not really do this star justice, here is my favored alternative colouring….

So the free PDF pattern for this quilt can be found here…. centennial block pattern I now need to move away from the star patterns I think, otherwise I may get type cast…

4Jan2016

Here is to a quilty 2016….

Posted in Paper Piecing Monday by wombatquilts

Like so many others I have spent the last couple of days pondering 2015 and looking forward to 2016. My hope for the coming year is to quilt more, visit the ER less, clear most of my huge pile of WIPs and get this blog re-designed. To get things started I made a list of my work in progresses… which promptly freaked me out.

I have 11 personal quilts needing quilting including Starry Night …

and two of my curved quilts…

I have 9 piles of blocks that need to be made into tops including finding something to do with this collection of blocks…

There are also two Do Good Stitches quilts in need of quilting…

and a pile of PMQG quilt blocks that need to be made into tops. I was so overwhelmed by the task ahead I decided to go to my “happy place” and made some more Hodge Podge blocks….

So for the New Year I have added another six inch star to the collection…

This block was is called the Eight Pointed Star in the old catalogs and I see this block as the great grand mother of the wonky star blocks I love so much. You can find the free pattern for this star here….eight pointed star pattern.

I am now heading back to into the fray and hope to get a couple of quilts basted today. I made a pledge not to start any new projects for all of January…. I am just going to focus on getting some things finished. Wish me luck!

30Sep2015

More Hodge Podge….

Posted in Paper Piecing Monday by wombatquilts

As promised I am posting another on of my Hodge Podge Sampler blocks…today’s block has the wonderful title of Mosaic No.1 and is block number 334 in the 1922 version of the Ladies Art Company Quilt Pattern book (link to this later version of the book can be found here).

The free paper piecing pattern for this block can be found here….Mosaic No1 block.

If you downloaded my first pattern, the Arkansas Snowflake on Monday, the pattern is a little small….Monday evening I amended the PDF so everything is fine, but you may want to down load the new pattern just in case…Arkansas snowflake pattern.

Now the final piece of business is naming the winner of this fabric bundle…

I had 300 entries for the draw and the lucky winner, selected at random is… Linda who commented “I don’t seem to have much of an imagination when I want to buy fun fabrics, so this lot certainly would give my, umm, somewhat ‘boring’ stash a fresh and happy ‘zing’! I think I would make my first ever hexie quilt; Recently, I punched out a huge bag of hexies, then realized I didn’t have any fun fabrics to make hexies with, so there sits the bag, on my coffee table, making me feel guilty…..”

Congratulations Linda and thank you to everyone who entered.