Special Spinning block

Posted in Paper Piecing Monday by wombatquilts

After two weeks of teaching quilting to kids, I am back to posting…starting with a special quilt block. Last week my Do.Good.Stitches bee was set the challenge for this month to make some red/white/blue spinning blocks.

So I designed this block with the challenge in mind…and over the next couple of weeks I will share the pattern for the blocks I have made for this challenge.

The structure for this pattern was a little different from how I usually do my stars and the pattern needs to be sewn in sections. I must admit I did have to do some unpicking because I sewed one set of my pieces together back to front.

If you are interested in making your own block you can find the free paper piecing pattern here….Special Spin quilt block

12Jun2015

One finished quilt top and one giveaway…

Posted in Paper Piecing Monday by wombatquilts

This week, after a little procrastination. I finally finished sewing all my green stars into a quilt top…

I alternated the paper pieced blocks with 8 1/2 inch squares of low volume fabric… using mainly fabrics that had been used in the star blocks.

I sewed all the blocks together, keeping the paper on the stars. I have found if I remove the paper from the pattern before I sew everything together there can be issues making everything fit properly. There can be a lot of bias pieces in paper piecing and you want to minimize the wiggle…

When I had sewn all the stars and low volume blocks together I realized the quilt needed a border of some sort. I ended up making four flying geese blocks and interspersed them within the 3 inch border.

I love how the border and those geese bring the whole quilt together.

To celebrate finishing this quilt I thought I would do a little giveaway.

Up for grabs is this 18 fat eight cuts of fabric so you can make your own green star blocks – 12 different greens and 6 different low volumes. If you would like to win just leave a comment on this post and we will pick a winner on Monday. As always I am happy to post overseas.

THE COMPETiTION IS NOW CLOSED. Thanks.

8Jun2015

A little miscalculation…

Posted in Paper Piecing Monday by wombatquilts

This week I finally decided on the layout for my green star quilt….and in doing so realised I was one block short! So it was back to the drawing board…literally…and a new block was designed…

This is my Outlined star…a fun little star with 32 lovely little pieces. I designed this star after staring at the other blocks on my design wall for a week or so and it seems to fit nicely into the Green star mix.

If you would like to add this star to your collection you can find a free PDF of an 8 inch pattern here….Outlined star pattern.

And here is a glimpse of what I am planning for these blocks…

I hope to have a finished quilt top to share with you on Friday…

18May2015

The last green star….

Posted in Paper Piecing Monday by wombatquilts

Welcome to Paper Piecing Monday….the final edition of the Green Star series…

$fractured star$ There is no rhyme or reason for my colour placement on this star… I just had fun and put scraps where ever they fitted. Some how it seemed the thing to do with this the 20th star in the series. Yep you read that right, I made 20 green stars and shared 20 patterns.

I had a change of heart this week about how I wanted to layout of the stars in the final quilt, and so do not want to share anything yet. I hope to play some more this week and have a WIP (work in progress) shot for you next week.

The last 8 inch star pattern can be found here…fractured star pattern.

Do not fret, paper piecing Monday will be back next week, but with something NON star related.

11May2015

A simpler green star…

Posted in Paper Piecing Monday by wombatquilts

Today’s paper piecing Monday I decided to keep it a little simpler – only a four-part pattern!

With this pattern you can decide to not do the pieced center part (just use one piece of fabric to cover the center triangle). This give you a different looking star with less bulk in the center.

You can find the free paper piecing pattern for this 8 inch block here…Stripey Star pattern. Only a few more green blocks to go and then I can star putting this top together.