boone926

Has anyone made this quilt. I have had numerous problems with the pattern, it seems to contradict itself in many places. One question it does not address is what you square the block up to. when you put the blocks together they pucker up something awful. Any help would be appreciated.

mike'sgirl

Have you tried contacting Judy herself? Ill bet she would help.

mckwilter

Check for YouTubes. I've seen several of them, but I don't think for this particular quilt.

nativetexan

check her site for any error corrections on the pattern.

Barb in Louisiana

I am in the process of making the quilt. I am making a 7 x 8 set of arcs. I have made all of 6 x 8 rows and have them sewn together in diagonal rows. I have about 6 main blocks left to do and the bottom scallop arcs. Funny, I say bottom, but it could be top, according to how the top gets turned after I finish it.

This quilt taught me a lot about reading the pattern well and then do what I understood it said. Sometimes I had to go back over the instructions several times to really understand them. I did a lot of unsewing...otherwise known as ripping. It didn't take me long to realize that all my seams had to be consistent and exactly on the lines. Nothing would line up properly if I missed by much. I didn't understand how perfect the floating points had to be until I started putting the diagonal sewn rows of blocks together. Once again, I was ripping and making sure the floating points ended where they should. The pieces the floating points sewed to had to be cut exact or they ended up with excess fabric. After doing all this, I found there was no reason to square up the blocks. They were close enough. Where I found puckering was when I was sewing the 4 sets of arcs together to make the main block. If either fabric slipped a tiny bit, the seam puckered. I did a fair amount of ripping, AGAIN, until I realized that consistency was the key for me.

Did I mention that before this my only adventure in paper piecing was 3 NY Beauty blocks I made for a guild? Boy have I learned a lot and gotten completely hooked. I had only the BWS pattern by Judy Niemeyer when I started this project, now I have almost all her patterns. I started BWS late December 2013.

kindleaddict63

Barb that is a beautiful quilt!

scrapinmema

Barb in Louisiana this is a beautiful quilt.

Dolphyngyrl

I have found that not lining up can be due to basting, do you baste seams before you fully sew them. I am just learning this now as I did one block from starr fabrics that didn't line up. Carol doaks PP class on craftsy is awesome. I do agree her instructions are not the easiest. I have several JN patterns and have read one and I can see it will take me a minute. I would email judy

dunster

Barb, your quilt is truly beautiful. Your fabrics are so carefully chosen, the rings just blend from one color into another.

Robin, you don't need to square up paper pieced blocks. They should retain exactly the shape of the original paper, and you just trim on the lines shown on that paper. I think Barb gave excellent advice. For this pattern I think I would make some copies of some of the papers and practice on some scrap fabric in order to perfect my sewing technique. It's not an easy pattern. Using a thinner thread helps me on paper piecing too.

quiltstringz

You might also want to see if your LQS has a Judy certified teacher. This is one area that I really think (if you can) taking a class really helps. Judy does things (such as cutting your fabric) a little differently but I have several friends who do her patterns and said that taking a class has really helped them. They did that with the first and now they are converts