SueSew

Ok! Watched the video, got good tips on PP, got insight into how a star is designed, got out my treasure-box of print and tonal batiks, and selected all my fabrics ...NOT!!!! HAHA I WAS going to select fabrics ...but that could take weeks so I am going to grab a few of the prettiest ones and start with Alabama! It look like some of the pieces are so small they can be done using the lovely gift jelly rolls I was given for Christmas. Mmmmmmmm

yahoo! Cant wait for the weekend!

SueSew

Of course if the first one looks really nice then I will want to abandon scrappy and go buy a lot of the key colors...Don't you love decisions like this?

Macybaby

I'm excited to start too - but my book left Des Moines yesterday and who knows how long it will take it to get from Iowa to South Dakota . . .

Macybaby

Got my book today! Watched the video - I've never paper pieced before so this should be fun. I think I want to do them with the same or similar color background, - not decided what color though.

Macybaby

Here is my Alabama - I had trouble getting the completed triangle blocks to line up, and finally gave up and took all the paper off. Center is off, but close enough for me - I'll try better on the next one.

this is the very first time I've paper pieced anything.

carriem

Macybaby--great start to your quilt! Thanks for sharing.

BerninaGirl

Oh I want to do this after seeing the pictures people shared.

I have the book somewhere now to get to it

SueSew

Macybaby, that is beautiful! You did a great job and it is your very first - wow! I know I wanted to take the paper off at the end and just do what I know how to do with regular piecing, but I stuck to it and kept it on - not to great center lineup but I'm happy with it.
here is my Alabama!
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SueSew

oops - it went in twice or- I must be seeing stars! LOL

Is anybody doing this project at 6" instead of 12? This thing is going to get really big really fast...

Macybaby

SueSew - I like those colors! I think it took me longer to decide on colors than to sew it up - so many choices! I finally decided I was going to stay with cream/brown as my "main" color scheme, and work in other colors that work well with those. And since I'm using all batiks in my Affairs of the Heart blocks, I decided I'd use none of them with this group. That was a hard decision, part of me wanted to use all those bright colors for this too, but since I plan on both groups for wall hangings in my "Machine Shed" I want them to be more different.

One of my problems, I was anxious to get started, and I wanted my "paper" to be exactly the same, so I photocopied the page (after cutting the binding off my book). But I couldn't find any lightweight paper. I did fine sewing one layer of paper, but when I tried it with two layers, it just wouldn't work.

DH picked me up some tracing paper today, so I'll have that for the next block. Unfortunately it's too large for my printer/copier at home (it won't handle anything wider than 8.5" and the tracing paper is 9" wide.) so I'll take it to work with me tomorrow and make copies of several blocks.