storm at sea question
 

i really want to make a storm at sea quilt, but i am super intimidated.

does anyone have any tips or tricks or ways to make it a little less...everything that it is? tricky? slow? a potential design nightmare?

thank you!

aileen

have not made one yet. however, my friend used marti michell templates and said she really liked them.
i have used her templates on other projects and found them easy to use and very helpful.

try a square or two and see how you like it. good luck.

Not that difficult. See my avatar. It's my first completed quilt. I googled storm at sea to decide on the design. I used Marti Mitchell and Deb Tucker templates. Go for it.

This is on my "Maybe Someday" list and if/when I get to it, I will paper piece it.

Google "storm at sea paper piecing" and you will find sites that let you download the paper piecing patterns needed to make a storm at sea quilt. Easy peasy with paper piecing.

I used the Wendy Mathson trimplates to make mine and it was a breeze. I got the accuracy of paper piecing without having to pull off the paper.

I may try the paper piecing method...

My dear friend made my daughter a Storm at Sea baby quilt using Jodi Barrows' square-in-a-square ruler and technique, and she said it was great. Here is a link to a blog by someone else who used this method.

Alison

If you want it easy ... and not have to fret about all the angles working out right, I'd go for PPing.
There's a free PP pattern at QuiltersCache.com ...... if you want a smaller version, you could just reduce the size.

I would probably paper piece this one. I think pp'ing is more accurate than templates in most cases, but that just might be me.

Creative Grids makes storm at sea ruler ..all cuts are made with that one ruler. It is very easy to use, and makes a great block!

If you have EQ you can use it to experiment with colors for your SAS.

I did a more complicated Storm at Sea. With so many points coming together at one intersection, it was very difficult to get the points perfect. I will never do another one but at least this one is off my Bucket List !!

This one is on my bucket list also. If you are wondering about colors I would make sure I auditioned fabric to make sure you get the look you want which is dependent alot on the value of your choices. I will be watching this one to see what folks recommend.

Has anyone made one using accuquilt go dies? Does that make it easier?

I made one this last year and it actually turned out quite well with batiks. I didn't paper piece it. Any points that didn't match up perfectly aren't noticeable at all unless you study every single intersection to find them.

i bundled up my courage and went to the quilt shop today. i left with 19 batiks, one of which will be a steady base in each block. i have the creative grids ruler and i'm just going to be careful.

enough humming and hawing. if it's a terrible mess, i won't have to look at it. it's a commission piece :)

thanks for your help!

aileen

Check out Quilter's Cache - 12" Block - Storm at Sea - it is easy to do and lovely to look at.

Edie

I would go for it, possibly using marti michell templates, as that might give you a better result. A friend of mine and I decided to make a storm at sea quilt as the raffle quilt for our annual church fair. It was a beautiful quilt, which another friend graciously hand quilted, however, she did one section of the quilt and I did the other and it was a true testimony that you should use one quilt to piece a quilt. There were only slight differences, but enough that I had to figure out how to adjust the piecing so that it came out right. But honestly, I was a very beginner quilter back then and it really wasn't that difficult to piece and the end result was beautiful. Go for it.

Absolutely agree. Paper piecing makes it so easy and if you google it you will find a video on how to paper piece by NOT sewing thru it making removal awful. You can use the same templates several times.

I used Inklingo to do Storm at Sea. Inklingo prints the pattern right on your fabric using your ink jet printer. Your fabric is ironed to freezer paper. The parts are printed with cutting and stitching lines. You can also use a rotary cutter with ruler to cut them apart. The website has free pattern set you can download and try before you buy. The Storm at Sea pattern is $25.00. The address in www.Inklingo.com. Not affiliated just a happy customer.