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Monday, 14 December 2015

paper piecing frenzy

Last week I showed you the centre of a new quilt that I'm making.  The pattern is NY Beauty Circle of Flying Geese, which you can buy here.  I spent ages laying out fabrics to follow the colour wheel, then cutting rectangles out ready to paper piece.

 Then I paper pieced.

This is the first time I've used a low volume bacground, and I really hope it's going to work.  As I'm putting the blocks together, it doesn't look good, but somehow it seems to all come together when each section is done.  

Having finished the four sections of flying geese, I started on the pointy bits.  And made a mistake.  See it?  There was no way I was unpicking that lot or cutting rectangles to start again, so I chopped the end off the pattern and washi taped it to the beginning!

You can see it in the second low volume section, but I think it will be pretty unnoticeable when the whole quilt comes together.

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11 comments:

  1. Christine B14 December 2015 at 11:40

    Your quilt is looking lovely Wendy! Christine x

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  2. Rachel14 December 2015 at 12:00

    How very ingenious of you!

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  3. pennydog14 December 2015 at 13:53

    It's driving me mad - I can't see it!

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  4. Bethany14 December 2015 at 14:31

    That is a photo definition of patience :)
    I love the colors!

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  5. Sandra :)14 December 2015 at 21:46

    I think the blocks look quite lovely (I don't see the error either), and I think the low value prints will be just fine!

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  6. elizabethdee15 December 2015 at 00:01

    That is looking good! I love your fix.

    Okay if I ask if your dental woes are behind you?

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  7. margaret15 December 2015 at 06:15

    this looks so complicated to do, looking so good too

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  8. Sarah in Stitches16 December 2015 at 00:56

    I love the colors so far! Can't wait to see this come together :D

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  9. Chris of UK City Crafter16 December 2015 at 07:35

    I wouldn't have noticed it if you hadn't pointed it out and I agree, once the quilt is done no one will notice it. It's looking really good.

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  10. Jane18 December 2015 at 09:54

    oh wow, such a lot of work in this one. It will look magnificent

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  11. Jo Ferguson19 December 2015 at 15:40

    It's simply gorgeous.

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