Pattia

Hi, I am a newbie on the board, but PP speaks to my heart. I have done a couple workshops in them and have done Snowmen, teacups and Rudolf head. I would love to join but I am also in Canada. Does that make a difference? how do you work out postage?
Patti
can someone email me if you want to reply privately?

SunlitenSmiles

thinking avacado tree, could go outside and take a photo and figure a pattern......hummm......but then would need lounge chair, little table, margarita, chips........................guess I will stay with birdhouses.

rwquilts

Hi Patti! We'd love to have you join us! Canada I think is pretty easy...I believe that the padded flat rate envelopes can also go there with the same charge, but will have to double check that out. We can communicate through PM's when it comes time for mailing, but basically, you pay for shipping both ways. You might have to mail a bit sooner and might get your package a bit later. Those are the only differences I see? Just let us know and I'll sign you up!

SunlitenSmiles

welcome Pattia I am sure here will be a way.....other Mysteries and challanges have participation from many different countries. My Dad was born in London, Ontario, Canada.................so we must be cousins !!!

Annaquilts

I am feeling frustrated. My book came in and the blocks are way too hard or not applicable. I found blocks online and started making some but because they are not 6 1/2 in. or exactly 3 1/2 in. I need to adjust them and I seem to not get my measurements right or do something wrong. For now I am laying everything aside because some where I stopped having fun. So 2 blocks done after strugling but I do not feel like doing 4 more of that pattern and I think that was the deal right? Six of the same pattern but different fabrics are OK. DH did make me a wooden iron out of the spindles of an old rocking chair. I have been using that and it works great with paper piecing. Not sure how I did without that before. So some light in all of this effort.

brushandthimble

Annaquilts,
take your pattern and enlarge it on a copier until the block with seam allowance measures 6.5. I have done it before and it worked very well. By coping all the pieces stay in the same perspective. Hope this helps.

Annaquilts

Thanks for the feedback brush and thimble I will have to see if I can get that to work for me.

rwquilts

I'm sorry you've been so frustrated Anna! Sometimes putting some distance from that will help when you come back to it. Remember that borders on smaller blocks will be okay as well to bring them to the 6 1/2" size if needed? Also...I am not going to be a horrible stickler about the same block rule per set...it's easier for me to swap blocks if they are the same, but I would rather have you participate and be happy than have the same blocks. So do the best you can and that will be quite good enough? As long as people leave the papers on, sign the backs in some way and they measure 6 1/2", it will all be fine. By the way, I have no idea about what a wooden iron is...please, do tell???

Annaquilts

Thanks for the reminder and encouragement Ronda. as for the wooden iron, instead of finger pressing or using a full size iron I use the wooden iron to smooth down the fbaric after sewing each piece into place.
I am not associate with any of these links.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/87096987...tions-quilting
http://softexpressions.com/software/notions/iron6.php

scroll 1/4 down and there is an example of some one using it foundation piecing /paper piecing
http://christinacreating.blogspot.co...1_archive.html

Here another style and example
http://bagsbykzk.blogspot.com/2011/0...-rages-on.html

rwquilts

Oh how funny Anna! I have one, but didn't know it by that name. They are nice aren't they? I love the one from the spindle...really cute! Thank you for sharing with us!