I'm very into paper piecing right now! I discovered it in early June while looking for a helicopter pattern. I wasn't able to find what I was looking for, but I found an airplane paper piecing pattern. I called my mom and asked her to explain paper piecing over the phone and that night I started, within 3 days everything, but the quilting was done. I have decided to hand-quilt it, but since it has been so hot I put it away until the fall. I'm making it for our future son (we are planning to adopt as soon as our homestudy is complete and we find a mother looking to make an adoption plan), just in case the baby is a girl I'm also going to make a butterfly quilt (we will be thrilled with a boy or a girl, but since we have two girls, it would be nice to have a little boy). I had so much fun making the airplanes that I started looking for other paper piecing patterns. The next one I started was "Garden Patch", which is so much fun!!!! I can't wait to finish it!!!! Lack of fabric has been my problem. The sample quilt they show looks amazing, so I'm trying to make it similar....not exact or even close, but similar. Like each plant uses different greens, and different browns....so coming up with that many greens and that many browns has been hard. Brown is my struggle right now. Since I need so little I don't want to go and buy, so I'm hoping to find some in my mom's stash. Just need to find the time to go and dig through it all! In the meantime I'm working on another Table Topper that I'm giving as an anniversary gift to my hubby's aunt this upcoming Saturday.

Hope everyone is having a great night!
Hugs!

I love paper piecing. Please show us pictures of your work. :D :D :D :D

Kelly-I love to paper piece,too, but I think we are in the minority. I love the precision of it and it goes so quickly.

Post a picture of your airplane quilt top. I would love to see it.

Good luck with the adoption. Keep us posted on it too-I think after quilts, babies and kids are the biggest hit on the board!

I do and I still have that magazine your blocks are in! Let me know if I can h lp in any way :)

I was crushed last night when my mom told me that paper piecing is "cheating" and not real quilting :( I thought it was just another method. Maybe not as impressive as template piecing, but I'm having a great time with it!


Here is where I posted my pictures to the group.....
http://www.quiltingboard.com/posts/list/9295.page

Marcia....I love the precision too!!! I would never be able to make sure perfect points with template piecing....I'm just not that good!

Hugs!!!

Here is the last one I did.....

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...iversarytt.jpg

I still need to make it into a hexagon and quilt it!

I have bought the rulers, paper and even a Carol Doak book/CD but have not found the courage to start. I too like the idea of percisionnnnn ! Some day either my prince will come or I might try to teach myself to paper peice. Which do you think will happen first ? ( oh yeah, I'm 57 soon to be 58 :lol: ,llooolllll.)

The leopard with the sky full of lightening is fabulous, so cool....

Cindy,

Go for it!!!! It is so much fun!!!! You won't regret trying it!!!!

There is actually a free beginner pping pattern on Carol Doak's website. So ahead....give it a try!!! My younger DD who is 8 has done several paper pieced squares......here is one......

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...uiltsquare.jpg

Hugs!

Cindy,

That is for my older DD, she picked out all the fabric. I just need to applique the tail on....but I don't know how the applique, so I have been putting it off.

You are right. Mom's been listening to the Quilt Police.

:!: WHAT???? I have never heard anyone say that before. Paper piecing is one of many techniques used to make a quilt. So is applique and patchwork!

I love paper piecing.
ONce you start, you are hooked!!

I am a paper piecing lover!!

I have never tried but I am planning on try it soon. I want to make an alphabet quilt and all of the blocks are paper pieced.

I just read Shelly's great tutorial and learned a lot. Does anyone else know of a good online tutorial for paper piecing?

Just got into it. I made a teddy bear. No pictures; some one needed it in a hurry.

I'm a paper piecing addict :P :P :P

Paper piecing is alot of fun!! I havent' done any in a few years now though, but one of these days I will get back into it again!

It's not cheating. Paper piecing is just another technique.

An 8 year old can do it and you learned over the phone. You make me want to cry. I think I have a block, mental that is.......Ooooooo :? :? :? :? :( :( boo-hoo :( :( :( :( :( :(

yours are so nice

Ruth, I thought there was no way I could do it, but I did.
I figure if I can do it, anyone can.
Just give it a try. Start slow, go slow and you'll see, it's really easy!

Ruth,

I'm sorry, my point wasn't to upset anyone!!!!!!! I was hoping it would give some the courage to give it a try. HUGE HUGS!!!!!


I'm sorry :(

Here is a great site to learn pping

http://www.quilterscache.com/StartQu...tingthree.html

Another place to learn
http://www.quiltseeds.com/free/tutor...paperpiece.pdf

http://www.patchpieces.com/demoFPP.pdf

Ruth,
Get some scraps from your stash and give it a try. If you wait until you think you can do it, you'll never start. :lol: You need to sit down at your sewing machine and sew the pieces as you read the instructions. I know you can do it. You're a quilter! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Kelly,
This is at least one time when you shouldn't listen to your mom. There are many, many ways to quilt and piece fabric. Paper piecing is one of them. :-) :-) :-)

Ruth, you can do it...boy...if I can...anybody can! Do like me, take it really slow, think it through and oh yeah..keep that seam ripper close by or use scraps and keep the waste basket close.

Kelly, your blocks look great, you are having fun...what else do you need? Evidently, NOT wrong advice from you mother...UGH!

My mom came over today with some brown fabrics, so I'm ready to work on my Garden patch again. I have two gifts I need to finish, but hopefully by Friday they will be done and I will be able to work on the garden again!

Mom said some hurtful things about my finished pieces, but that is nothing new. I ate some ice cream, but that didn't really help.


hope everyone is having a great day!
hugs!

I am really into PP. I have just finished a wallhanging, but need to get the backing. So I"ll show you when it's totally done. I've made lots of blocks for my sample quilt and I love it. Kinda makes a mess on the floor, but that shows I"m working hard, huh? I found that it dulls my rotary cutter to trim the back seams, so I have a "dull one" just for that!

I love to paper piece I just don't like to tear it out. I could never be so accurate on the points if I didn't paper piece. I do it without paper piecing. I have the very first blocks I ever did without paper piecing. I think about 12. I really need to get them out and make a quilt with them. Maybe one day. :roll: :roll: But i probably will paper piece it. :lol: :lol:
Bill'sBonBon

Some of us are paper-piece challenged. I can usually get them after 4-5 rejects, but by then, the fun is looooong gone!

Kelly, paper piecing is not cheating:)I know for I thought the same thing and said it outloud like an idiot at a quilting group...! Okay, I went home and adding more blonde highlights after that conversation because I deserved to look lighter:))LOL I honestly thought that because it is easy for me to do too and assumed it was for everyone. But, not so. So, tell mom...unless she wants to be really blonde, not to repeat that statement either:)) I am now educated on that not being so:))And, if you enjoy it...do it:0)I love to paper piece and find it really relaxing! Skeat

BTW...awesome job on that block!! Love the colors too! SKeat

That is so awesome....I'm like Ruth...I tried and just had a heck of a mess but now that I've got a few years under my belt I just may try again since so many say it's so easy....Thanks for the sites.....all ready checked them out and will try... :D

Kelly, I am sorry that your mom has hurt you by the things she has said to you. I think you are a very talented quilter and I'm sure I am not the only one here who thinks so. Keep posting and we will be the support you need for your quilting.

Thanks Ladies,

I made this today.....

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...forauntann.jpg

It's for my great Aunt's 90th birthday tomorrow! I thought this would brighten up her room.

Hugs!

That is really cute!
Was it a pattern that you bought or did you find it online?

It is a pattern I purchased online.....it's from http://piecebynumber.com/ She has great patterns and is very good about emailing them to you quickly! They come in PDF format so you can get started right away. I have purchased other patterns from her and she also has freebies on her site!

KellyPA,
Thanks for the encouragement, I will show you my first piece, when I get to it. I love those veggies!

If you love paper piecing, check out this woman's site. You won't believe some of the blocks she has.

And check out her mystery quilts too. This is a German site.

She's got some of the best paper pieced patterns on the web.

http://www.lenzula.com/pattern/free/index.php