Rising Star Batiks Quilt
[Photo from Craftsy]
Just wanting to pull all the pieces and notes together for when I start working on this gorgeous quilt![Photo from Craftsy]
I love the purples and the blues together. It's the yellows and oranges that are harder for me to get used to -- though they look great together here as complementary colors.
Rising Star Batiks Quilt Kit at Craftsy
(Ordered 1-6-2018)
There are several more detail pictures of this quilt at the Craftsy website, including showing how they quilted it with a kind of doubled grid pattern. Simple and do-able. Angela does a much more involved feather which she shows in the video below.
Detail - Photo from Craftsy
Follow this up at YouTube. She has several useful links in the details box for more info.
Angela's bonus video on Paper Piecing for Perfection.
4 Types of Paper You Can Use for Foundation Paper Piecing - Craftsy
I haven't done a lot of paper piecing in my quilting career, but enough to know that it's the perfect technique when you need perfect points or precision piecing. I little fusty, and kind of a pain to rip off all the paper. Fortunately, not all the blocks require paper piecing -- just the star points.
Using Tracing Paper in Foundation Paper Piecing
Basically, it says that using newsprint as from a kid's art pad works just fine. Tracing paper can be problematic to put through a printer.
What Paper should I use for Paper Piecing?
1 comment:
I've moved often enough using professional packers that I have quite the trove of carefully smoothed out large sheets of newsprint. I've used it for paper piecing and it does work fairly well, although there's still the issue of tiny pieces getting stuck under the stitching here and there.
Frankly, I totally don't do that kind of paperpiecing anymore, not once I learned a method from Judy Mathieson in her Mariner Compass book that eliminates stitching through the paper. Instead, you are stitching next to the paper that has been folded back along the printed stitching line. The trick is that you print your pattern onto freezer paper which of course sticks to the fabric when you iron along. Also, you can avoid printing multiple sheets by stacking the sheets with your master and "sewing" along the lines with an unthreaded needle, creating a perforated pattern on each sheet. See this post for a bit of a tutorial:
http://idahobeautyquilts.blogspot.com/2013/04/4th-quarterand-im-not-talkin-football.html
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