Hand Piecing Castle Wall Blocks
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Hand Piecing Castle Wall Blocks
I was just reading about these and wonder if anyone here has done them with Mickey Dupre's templates? It sounds like it was a theme from her in 2014 and I see a lot of pictures online. I don't care for hexis but I would like to do some handwork. http://mdquilts.com/castle-wall/
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Mooresville, NC
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Believe it or not, hand piecing is not hard - the patience comes naturally. I started in quilting in 1979 when everything was hand pieced. I still enjoy handwork of all kinds - but machine sewing is great, too. Hand piecing can be quickly as you can "drudge" a,one the seam line so everything always lines up. I did a program for one of my guilds a few years ago and made them all hand piece a 4-patch. Yes, there was grumbling, but they all did it and just about every person did a great job. You might want to give a much simpler block a try - it just takes some different skills to get the fabric pieces cut correctly.
Have fun,
Sandy in Mooresville, NC
Have fun,
Sandy in Mooresville, NC
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oh, I'm not worried about the difficulty, it's more that I was wondering if others had done this when it was a sew-a-long type thing in 2014, and wondering about fabric choices etc. The examples she shows seem to show lots of busy prints in the middle etc.
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Illinois
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I think mickeys is epp isn't it? Paperpieces.com might have the components for that block. I think I have her templates for that, come to think of it. I know her pieced hexies are epp after sewing the parts together...have her acrylics on those, and bought the papers from paperpieces.com. I like epp, but gave a bit of trouble with regular handpiecing...at seam junctions mostly....
#7
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Location: Tadcaster, England
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I made this abut 20 years ago when I first started quilting but just with a paper pattern, not perspex templates. We used a border fabric for the hexi shapes and also for the centre. However our centre was made up of 8 triangles with the points all lined up on a certain part of the pattern so as to create circles. Hope you understand this, I can't do photos. We did the diamonds in solid colours. Good luck with this and I would love to see the finished block.
Anne
Anne
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Seems like a very ambitious undertaking. I like epp but this one would not be for me unless I had a bunch of friends who wanted to do some swaps or sew-alongs. I would need encouragement to keep working on it. Good luck to you, if you take this one on.
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Manitoba
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I have hand pieced castle wall blocks, but made my own template out of template plastic. I found a free block pattern on the web in the size I wanted and traced them onto the templates and cut them out with scissors. Better than buying templates that you may never use again. I always have a hand piecing project on the go.
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