brideoffrankenstein | Entries tagged with english paper piecing

Hi everyone, I know there's a few replies to my last post I haven't got to yet, I've been trying to do a lot of processing and stuff (update soon I guess?) so my executive function for Peopleing has been a smidge low (and really I should be working but I'm not...) but. The other week I promised pictures of my paper piecing, so I've grabbed a few.

This one was my first attempt, based off blocks in The 1718 Coverlet by Susan Briscoe. This is a layout photo and not a great one because I took it a while back - it's all sewn together now and being quilted. I cut the paper shapes myself from copier paper and used fabric scraps to make it up.

This is a layout of nine blocks, four made of two shades of green, four of a blue and blue-grey, and a central block of three green shades. They're all a mix of squares and triangles and they're all different.

This is a layout of nine blocks, four made of two shades of green, four of a blue and blue-grey, and a central block of three green shades. They're all a mix of squares and triangles and they're all different.

This next photo is a pincushion I made out of a kit my mum bought for me, the fabrics aren't my style but it looks nice:

This is a pincushion made of eight hexagons in various floral fabrics.

This is a pincushion made of eight hexagons in various floral fabrics.

This next one is a star quily I'm making for Keats. I'm using actual sturdy pre-cut papers here and I learned how to baste without going all the way through. Excuse the extra black planets and grey constellations stars, I had to fill a gap to demonstrate. Mum thinks I need another colour for variety but I'm not sure.

There are six star blocks, three made of gray stars surrounded by black hexagons, and three black stars surrounded by silver metallic hexagons. The gaps between are filled with two different tones of blue stars, except where I didn't have enough.

There are six star blocks, three made of gray stars surrounded by black hexagons, and three black stars surrounded by silver metallic hexagons. The gaps between are filled with two different tones of blue stars, except where I didn't have enough.

Finally this is the quilt I started when I temporarily ran out of hexagons (I have more now, Keats sent some). This one I think makes me happiest because the star quilt had a few issues (I wasn't going to do that block, I was going to do one called Heavenly Stars instead) and also this one is - nerd alert - in theme with that novel What I Wrote so I have a deep fondness for it.

This block is made of a central cross shape made in a fabric of countryside scenes, surrounded by eight honeycomb hexagons, four in green and four in yellow.