Harry Potter Quilt
 

I made this for my daughter's Christmas present and gave it to her yesterday. She Loved It!!! All the blocks were completely paper pieced, and wow, was it a beast to make! I think it will be my first and last paper pieced quilt. Some of the blocks took 2 hours to make, each! It was a free pattern called "project of doom" and you can get it on line if you are interested.

Wow! Very nice and detailed!!

I'm glad your daughter loves the quilt, I can't imagine paper piecing all those objects!
I like paper piecing, but on much simpler designs!

Wow, that’s amazing. What a unique quilt with so many interesting details...you did a fantastic job! I can see why she loves it.

It does look very hard to make! You did a great job.

This is wonderful. Will be loved for years.

That is a labor of love. Fantastic job.

Thanks for showing this. I am supposed to make one for DGD's birthday and have been procrastinating. She loves the Harry Potter books. I have the Project of doom downloaded, now just need a kick in the you-know-where to get started. Sure hope mine turns out as nice as yours.

That's amazing! Just wow!

Was it difficult because of poor instructions or difficult because of the detail? Two young women in my family would love this quilt but I don't have the skill to muddle through poor instructions but if it was just the amount of detail, I would give it a go. And I'd probably start now because I'm notoriously slow.

It was hard because there is no instructions and the small pieces were insane!!! The other thing is all the work of sewing one little seam, then grabbing the quarter inch ruler and the rotary cutter and and mat and trimming off every single seam as you go before you can sew another seam!!! I had the all the tools on my machine table, but I had to put them out of the way to sew. The other thing that was a royal pain was trying to figure out if the scrap of fabric would cover the edges once it was turned back after the seam was sewn. I spent more time unpicking than sewing!! Oh and you have to turn the stitch length to 1 in order for the paper to rip off easily. So when you unpick you ruin fabric lots of times. I will not be doing any more of these, that is for sure. Blah!!

Wonderful quilt!!! Great job!!

WOW! That is a lot of work but well worth it. I am sure your daughter will treasure it forever.

Oh, wow! How cool is that? Love it!

I think I will splurge and print the PP patterns on proper foundation paper. Then I won't have to shorten my stitch length as much. 1.5 should be fine. Plus I think I will modify or simplify some of the designs. If you Google images for Project of Doom, there are quite a few different blocks that can be mixed and matched. And maybe there are some that would be easier to do as applique rather than PP. Thanks you've given me lots to think about.

[QUOTE=javin22;8181913] The other thing that was a royal pain was trying to figure out if the scrap of fabric would cover the edges once it was turned back after the seam was sewn.

I discovered an easy trick to deal with this. Instead of trying to fold your fabric back with a quarter inch "seam" folded into it, while holding it all up to a light or window, to see it the fabric will be big enough, just fold the paper over the fabric! If the paper piece covers the fabric, it's big enough! :D

AWESOME. BrendaK

I have done two different Harry Potter quilts using the "Project of Doom" patterns. They are not difficult to follow since there are many internet videos which explain the paper piecing process. Almost all of the blocks are 10" finished, so it is quite easy to pick and choose which ones you might wish to include in a quilt. Even two identical blocks made with different fabrics will not look identical when placed next to one another.

This was my very first paper piecing experience, and it led me to other paper piecing projects. If anyone has blocks printed out, I say select ones which contain only or almost all books and begin there. You will become very adept in only a short while and advance to the more complicated ones. Any anyway, if a block is too advanced, leave it out and substitute another one in its place.

The niece for whom I made the second quilt actually cried when she opened the package. She said it was the most magnificent thing she had ever received. The other quilt I kept for myself, although I do loan it out occasionally to a school library for a short time.

Really really love this...great quilt you made!

yeah, I thought about doing some in applique, but decided to just stick to the original. I wish the whole thing was applique instead, that would have been a million times easier.

[QUOTE=JustAbitCrazy;8182144]Yeah, I think that would have been nice to know. Since this was my first experience with paper piecing, I didn't know any tricks.

I should have splurged too and done it that way.

A few years ago I thought I would try paper piecing. I wanted to make a Dr. Who quilt for my youngest. The first block I tried was the falling angel with SO MANY tiny pieces for the wings. NO WAY! So I took the patterns for the 16 blocks and made a combination of appliques and 'regular' piecing for them. I am in awe of all of you who do paper piecing, but I don't think I'll be joining you!

True labor of love. This great quilt has so many wonderful images from the Harry Potter books. Well done.:cool:

There's a new quilt along starting in January that's Harry Potter themed.

https://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com/...ilt-along.html

Wow, amazing quilt!

Absolutely luv this!

Thanks for the link.

Very cool!

I was inspired by the 1st post on this thread from last year, right after Christmas, and have spent the past year making 2 Harry Potter quilts for my daughters for this Christmas. Here is the first one, finished. I will post the other one soon, after I finish quilting it. Lots of fun to make, and I used up some of my stash. Thanks for the inspiration - I get so much out of following this board.[ATTACH=CONFIG]620012[/ATTACH]

I have several Harry Potter fans in my family, but I'll stick to making the quilts out of the licensed printed fabrics.:thumbup: Yours is a true labor of love.

Very nice quilt and glad you daughter loved it so much.

Donna your quilt is wonderful, definitely give it of thread of it’s own so everyone can see it.

I’ve always wanted to do this quilt, but, it does look time consuming! You did a fantastic job! It turned out beautifully.