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Originally Posted by Grammie Sharon
Stillwaters,
I know Bev Maxvill. She is a wonderful quilter.She had a store near me in SE Michigan but just moved this summer to the west side of our state. She was teaching me hand quilting. A very talented lady. Here is her website if you would like to see some other patterns that she has. www.thequilterspatch.com Check it out. Your valentine is really nice. Bev helped me design a quilt for my husband and I was going to paperpiece the word Michigan at the top but didn't get to that point before she moved. |
Sharon, I found these paper piecing patterns for letters.
http://www.quilterscache.com/A/AlphabetPatterns.html You just click on each individual letter and you can get the pattern for it. So if you got the basics for paper piecing and just need to add "Michigan" to your quilt. maybe you could try these! (My Dad was from Flint ;) ) |
Thank you for this website. I'm going to try to print these and practice before I use my good material. Can't wait to see more of your quilt hangings.
Flint is about an hour from my house. |
Wow really nice !
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I am currently doing a king size paper pieced project and am absolutely dreading tearing off the paper. What is the freezer paper method that you mentioned?
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elfvinnd, I have been searching for a "tute" online and this is the closest I find to the way I do it:
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...33818438EDRdkE I hope this helps. It looks like A LOT of steps, but you really get into a rhythm. The only hints I would add are: ~When you fold back the freezer paper, you can use a "credit card" to keep your line straight (the free kind they keep sending in the mail). This also gives you a little more thickness to butt the add-a-quarter ruler up to when cutting. ~ When ironing the freezer paper onto you fabric, remember to "start wrong and go right!" - you iron onto the WRONG side of the #1 fabric, and to the RIGHT side of all the rest. ~ if you are piecing very small bits (like the roses and the stems in the one I did), you can use an add-an-eighth ruler instead. I hope you try this method! I love that you just peel the freezer paper off of your finished section and you can use it again! If the freezer paper gets "linty" and doesn't seem to stick well any more, you just wipe it with a USED dryer sheet and it will keep on working for you. Good luck! Barbara |
great quilt
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Wow! Fabulous quilt, especially that it is your first PP. Nice work~
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So romantic.....lovely :-D
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Beautiful .
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