Tuesday, 24 June 2014

FOUR MORE BLOCKS COMPLETED

I recently completed a quilt so I have some time to work on Dear Jane blocks so four more have been added to the file.

A5 Cathie's Campfire
 
 A5 Cathie's Campfire. Another foundation paper pieced block.  This was my second attempt at this one the first was done in a check fabric and I wasn't careful to keep my checks square and it looked really awful so it went in the bin and I am very happy with this one.


A8 Florence Nightingale
 
A8 Florence Nightingale Foundation paper pieced.  This one should have been quite straight forward but I had lots of problems mostly my own stupid errors such as putting fabric the wrong way around and not checking that the piece I was using would fit the space really silly errors and quite frustrating.
A4 Courtney's Stethoscope
A4 Courtney's Stethoscope this one I paper pieced but found that it was easier to remove the paper when joining the sections and the borders.

A6 Uncle Homer

A6 Uncle Homer This one I rotary cut and pieced quite simple but still you need to keep your seams straight something I am not always good at.

I also have a block I am working on in English Paper piecing these take some time as I do them whenever I have time to spare it takes quite a while to tack the pieces onto the paper but the joining is quite quick.









Thursday, 5 June 2014

B2 SWEET TATER PIE

This was another one I felt would work well with English Paper Piecing and I was right it went well.  I quite like this method mainly because I can work on it anywhere.  Mostly I do it at work at lunch time.  Its very easy to carry around a small snap lock bag with pieces and cotton and scissors.  I am very happy with the final result.  Its now filed away with the others just waiting for some friends to join it.