Paper Piecing is one of my new favorite quilting techniques.
Judy Niemeyer patterns inspired me to take a paper piecing class recently at
the Our House in Milford retreat center. I loved the perfection that paper
piecing affords. I started with a pattern called Desert Sky and created my
first Judy quilt. Choosing the fabric is
maybe the hardest part of the project.
Picture of my Desert Sky quilt....someday I will quilt it.
My daughter found a pattern for me to use to make my niece’s
wedding quilt. I didn’t quite like the entire pattern so I opened up Electric
Quilt version 7 (EQ7) and went to work designing my own pattern. After a bit of trial and error, I completed
the design phase. Of course after sewing the first two blocks together I found
out I had to go back to the design board and tweak the angles a bit to make the
secondary blocks work better. I used Carol Doak paper for printing my blocks
and used the templates form EQ7 with an enlarged block to cut the individual
fabric pieces using the stack and whack method as much as possible. Posted
below is a picture of the flow for designing the quilt with a picture of the
final quilt as well.
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