Sandynorm

Well, this was a very interesting eveining. I stumbled upon this thread quite by accident, and think that I might just have to give this a try, went thru every page, absolutly stunning blocks. I almost ordered the book, but want to check thru my mother's bookcase of quilting books first. I have never done paper piecing but I might just want to check it out...

Xtgirl

I finished Alaska tonight. I chose a different background but feel like the black is more striking... So now what do I do... Go back to black and have 1 oddball? Struggling to imagine a quilt with all different backgrounds... What is everyone doing? I can't post from my Ipad so ill upload the pic tomorrow.

Janet My

xt... I'm with you on this one.... Not sure what I'm going to do either. But.. I think I just might make 2 lap quilts out of these blocks... one with the dark backgrounds and the other one with the light backgrounds. I don't have a lot of printed light backgrounds in my stash, so I'm stuck with white or tone on tone white for my light and a black and a navy for my dark. It's a plan and I'm going stick with it to the end. I hope my plan turns out OK. If not... I had a lot of experience paper piecing. LOL

Janet My

Sandy, go searching for the book or buy one. I've never paper pieced before and I really like it. It took a few blocks to get the hang of it, but now I'm moving along at double speed from when I started. It's a time consuming process but as my DH said when I complained at how long it took to make one block.. "Anything good takes time."

Hope you join us.

Janet My

Thank you Fraew.... I had doubts about the colors. I've never paper pieced before and Arkansas was only my 4th block ever! I really like paper piecing.

goldendog55

I'm going to have alternate blocks, black or white. I went through my book and marked what I want to use, making sure I have 25 of each color.

wvhill22

Mine is going to be all sorts of backgrounds. very scrappy..I will either put them together with white or black sashing..leaning more toward white so am trying not to have a solid white background on my blocks

wvhill22

Today starts Arkansas am I right? Here is mine

PokerDiva

Here is my Arkansas. I am doing all different backgrounds.

Mad Mimm

Patrice and Poker D those blocks are very striking! Patrice your contrast is excellent and I like that the background has some pattern to it. Poker D, the color you chose for your background really makes that purple and lime pop. Such pretty blocks! I am more eager than ever to get into my sewing room - hubby has promised me time today so perhaps I'll get my Arkansas cut!

Can't wait to see the rest of the blocks - they are turning out so well!