March Prompt English Paper Piecing:
Last month was about foundation paper piecing, this month is about English paper piecing (EPP). After reading through multiple definitions on EPP, I think wikipedia offers the best definition - “English paper piecing is a method of patchwork where fabric is wrapped around fabric shapes made of thin paper cardboard or heavy paper. Once the shapes are wrapped and ready, the sewer will hand sew the shapes together one at a time until the shapes become an intricate design. The paper or cardboard is removed once the shape has been sewn to another shape on all sides.”
One of the shapes I see most commonly done using EPP is hexagons, but it works for other shapes as well, including diamonds, triangles, and circles. Create and share at least 2 EPP shapes this month.
Also, don’t forget, this is the last month of our first quarter.
Quarter 1 Challenge
(January 1 - March 31) Use your stash:
Fabrics that you couldn’t resist, patterns that called out to you - over time, we quilters tend to collect these things and build up a stash. Now is the time to use those items! Quilt something amazing using at least 50% stash materials.
A couple of WIPs. I received some wonky quilt blocks in the recent Sew Scrappy Swap. They were part of a fabric donation and probably have been passed on more than once. They were very wonky, so I trimmed, added a center square and came up with a new design. All fabrics but the green border are from stash. I am making more wonky leaves for a top and bottom add on. Wish me luck.
And a scrap buster project using up 2.5 inch squares from a swap, and randomly pieced HST from leftovers and trimmings. Plus 2023 BOMs. This is not the final layout, just a ‘stick it on the wall’ grouping. Wild!
Those colors are so… old-fashioned. It has an old-time feel with a modern loose interpretation. Hopefully, whoever gets this lap quilt will love it. It is growing on me.
They also feel a bit “old fashioned” to me, but I work with a couple of really young people, straight out of college, and they wear these kind of colour combinations all the time. So maybe, you’re just an early adopter!
They wear these colours with double denim and low-rise jeans, by the way I don’t really get the appeal but I suppose that’s what happens when you remember the last time it was cool.
I’ve been nagging my neice for a picture of her three boys on their quilts. I am patient, she has three boys and when I asked, they were all under 5! She is an amazing mom, calm, and unruffled, and she herds them quite nicely. They are terrors though, aren’t all boys?
The little one is three now, but here are their quilts made by their great aunt (or whatever I am to them). They use them all the time, picnics, travel, in the back yard, TV watching.
I have to speak up in defence of the ones that aren’t. My oldest son was a breeze to raise, our younger son was a challenge, not in a bad way, just not as easy as his brother.
My grandson is a sweet easy kid, but my granddaughter gives everyone a run for their money.
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I think the chances are 50-50 no matter the sex!
I have heard all the stories, and frankly, I have just concluded that raising kids is not for everyone. It is said to be one of the toughest jobs ever! I commend those who do it!
I have two boys who are a handful and are boy’s boys (eg into sports and being rough and farts and all that) but my sister has a boy and a girl and they are both very much on the emotional scale of getting upset if you look at them the wrong way. So my nephew is not like my boys at all, but is still a handful and my niece (as sweet as she is on her own sewing with me) is also hard work sometimes. They all have their easy times and their tricky times and so many things add in to the melting pot that creates a child’s personality.
We have two 15 years olds between us, a boy & a girl. They were wrestling last night, I had to force them to knock it off. 10:45, way past lights out & the lad had a 4am flight. No matter how different or samey they are, all children are 100% ridiculous.
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My sister’s lifelong best friend’s daughter is having a baby girl in August. I caved and got fabric to make a quilt and hopefully a small burp pad for her. I really haven’t made a baby quilt in some time, so I had no fabrics that called out to me…I decided to get a jelly roll to keep from having to cut out a bunch of strips.
I don’t really get the appeal but I suppose that’s what happens when you remember the last time it was cool.
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