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/

Looks pretty intense. I applaud anyone who does this kind of hand piecing. I don't seem to have the patience.

Its actually fairly simple, once you see how it goes together.

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

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.

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....

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

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.

I'm retired and as they say "This is above my pay grade!" It is lovely though and good luck to you!

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.