Geri B

I have done...actually still working on one...using John Flynn templates....looks to me like your scant seams may be a bit too scant and are not "touching" the points in the interior of the block.....do you pin the x seam of a point seam and then sew it? Some of yours are what I call "floating".... Just my observation

greaterexp

I'm so sorry you got an apparently bad pattern. I've gotten some with incorrectly sized templates or directions, too. Thanks for posting so that others can learn from your problem. I forget to cut out and make only one block sometimes in my zeal to get into the project.

Sailorwoman

I used Quilter's Cache paper piecing pattern for a combination of Storm at Sea and Ocean Waves. I was more than happy with the result - the points worked out really well. http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...d-t271457.html

Sewnoma

Anybody try the Creative Grids SAS ruler? I love the pattern and it's on my bucket list too but I'm intimidated by it; my DH bought me the ruler for it as a Christmas gift but I've yet to give it a try. It's supposed to make a block that finishes at 16". I've gotten as far as watching tutorials for the ruler...it LOOKS manageable....

Link to the ruler on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Grids...8KHFYYVT77HDB7

maviskw

I've had another experience where the scant quarter inch seam didn't work well. They say if you have the whole thing done the same way, it will be fine, but 'taint necessarily so!
I sewed seven strips together, then was supposed to cut squares out of that. Scant seams made my squares larger so that I could only get two good squares out of the strip. With correct seams, I would have been able to get three.

Lady Diana

Love your blocks! CHECK YOU QUARTER INCH seam allowances......this has to be dead on for this match up...ask me how I know.....scant bis good...but accurate is the key ...measure each small block before joining.......I hope the pattern gave you the measurement for each one.
best wishes

MargeD

I made a Storm at Sea quilt one year as the raffle quilt for my church's Holiday Fair. A friend offered to help by sewing one section of the quilt and I did the other. That was something I would not do again as her 1/4" was not the same as the 1/4" on my machine. I remember hearing Mary Ellen Hopkins saying that you should always make your quilt on the same sewing machine, because that gives you your PPM (personal private measurement), as machines can differ slightly. I did get the top together and a dear woman hand quilted it, but from then on I did my quilts solo, although my friend meant well and was trying to help.

caspharm

I took a class from Wendy Mathieson on the Storm at Sea and her technique with her templates work well.

MarionsQuilts

So I googled how to paper piece ... and printed off the template (same template, two different people - so it must be good LOL)

The MOST positive thing for me ... all my cut out fabrics will work with these templates for paper piecing - for that I am very very grateful LOL

The next most positive thing - wow is paper piecing ever easy LOL

here's my first block!

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and now the front ... TA DA!!!

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thank you so much everyone for all the tips ... and for the links for the paper piecing template! (And for telling me that it should be paper pieced in the first place LOL I was kind of going nuts!)

ArchaicArcane

I think this is exactly what happened and it has the potential of happening with more complex paper pieced projects too. When printing the downloaded pdf, make sure "Actual size" is checked or if that option isn't there make sure there's nothing that says "Shrink to fit page" or similar.

This is exactly why when I published a pattern earlier this month, I did NOT offer a template.

The really great part about PP is that it can be really basic and easy - like the shapes you're making - all the way to very complex and photograph like. It can grow with you and so far (to me anyway) it seems pretty limitless.