C8 - Hani's Crown

What a mess! Foundation paper piecing is definitely not my forte.

The US dear jane group threw out a challenge to find who could put the block together in the fastest time. I came nowhere near the fastest and now that I look at the block it is definitely wonky.

I can live with the middle square but will be redoing the rest of this block at a later date, hopefully by then I will be more atune with foundation piecing.

F2 - Kaleidoscope

This block is paper pieced and consists of 24 pieces. Easy to do but takes time. When I took this photo the block hadn't been trimmed back to its correct size of 5" square.

All my blocks so far

I have now taken photos of all my blocks and I'm dumping them here hollus bollus. I will slowly go through them, name them and talk about my sewing technique for each one at a later date.

D8 - Dee Dee's Delight

She's done and I just loved doing it.

All in needle turn applique.

F-1 Big Top

This one was easier for me.

... and I made it by making 2 sets of ½ square triangles, making sure that the second set was opposite colours to the first, then cut the second set to the smaller size required and needle turned it down into position. I then cut the excess out from behind the block. Then I added the calico triangles on each corner similar to a square within a square block and then needle turned the red triangles into each calico corner. Lastly I trimmed the block to size.

.... and I even worked out how to take a better photo.

K10

What a task that was for me.

I haven't done a lot of paper piecing before this and found it quite difficult to complete the block.

First of I redrafted the block in CorelDraw and then printed out a ½ dozen copies and started sewing but for the life of me couldn't work out why it didn't look like it should, slowly the penny dropped .... I needed it to be mirror image. Once I redrew the block I started moving forward.

I did it in 5 rows and then sewed the rows together. The top and bottom row was done in 1 piece, but 2,3 and 4 were done in 3 pieces each and you really don't want to know how long it took me ... alright about 6 hours not counting minutes. I really do hope that the next challenge is a little easier.

BOW Challenge

Finished!

Another one to cross off the list. This one was a tad harder.

I first made ½square triangles, joined them into a rows of 3x3, put a border around the four sides mitre-ing the corners.

I then needle turned appliqued the triangles in diagonally opposite corners and then cut the borders down to size, measuring and cutting so that the wonky look was correct.

This was successful after the second try, first time I cut the border and then sewed on the triangles and of course after finishing I realised that I had cut the borders the wrong way and the border was wide where it was supposed to be narrow.