Thread: New York Beauty Quilt Along Begins Oct 1st

Wow finally a paper piecing tute that I understand. Thank you.

Originally Posted by amh

My mind reverted back to when I sewed garmets and it is similar to putting in a sleeve. For me, I had to get the paper off before it would work for me, but I starched it well and used the stay stitching technique suggested earlier, and pinned it with lots of pins.



amh

Garment sewing; yes, I have to admit that I did take the paper off to complete the the curved piece. It was self defense I think. i knew it had to fit so I went back to the basics, something I knew that worked.

I will keep trying to get some curved seams by PP'ing as I go along. I remind myself that I want this years project to be a "challenge".

The other thing I am going to do is: Pre-cut all my outer pieces so that's done. I am using all the same dark plum fabric for this.

I struggled with fabrics for a while. What has to match, what can be scrappy.... if I did scrappy the colors would balance when the block went together. Think kaleidoscope and I moved past trying to organize colors.

I will pick up more fabrics from the Kansas Troubles line. I am thinking 1/4 yard of ones I like. I have a cathedral windows type of blocks I am doing mostly by hand using the same fabrics.

Now, where did my rainy days go?

Renea you did good.Look at those points. I found that if you put the curved outer pieces on top of the arcs when sewing and pin it works better.

Ellen, did you do this without using the PP'ing technique?

After several attempts, I finally removed the paper from the curved piece and sewed it together.

You are right about the points, which is what New York Beauty is all about.

Originally Posted by rainagade

Ellen, did you do this without using the PP'ing technique?

After several attempts, I finally removed the paper from the curved piece and sewed it together.

You are right about the points, which is what New York Beauty is all about.

I pp'd the arcs and found I had to remove the paper before sewing to the other pieces

Very nice thimblebug

amh - - - just beautiful. I'm working on mine too. The #1 block gave me a migraine, so went back to #0. I might have a bazillion of the 0 block in mine. Ya never know - - - - -

Jane