Although I've never done any quilting before, I'm fascinated by paper piecing. Regular quilting seems a little too intimidating, but the paper thing I think I could do. Rather than starting simple, I decided to try to figure out how to do it on a very complex design - what could go wrong? This is probably another thing that I'll make and then never think about again, but it was fun. I had a few false starts. Designing paper piecing is harder than it looks. I think I've finally got something that could be used to actually make something though.
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The green lines are separate sections and the red are different pieces within sections. |
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Photo reference behind all the lines. |
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Lines and photo overlayed with section guide. |
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Just the section guide so you can kind of see how you would put it together. |
I don't quilt so that could end up being worth nothing, but it was good experience I think. I did quite a bit of looking at other people's block designs to figure out how to section off a big, complicated piece. It makes sense to start by slicing through the whole picture so I broke it up into 4 larger vertical pieces and then went from there. I feel like I was losing my eye for figuring it out after a while. I have some issues with the P and Q sections... can you make a smaller section and then use it as one of your number in another, larger section?... I think it could work, you'd end up cutting out your pattern multiple times though so maybe that's why people don't do it.
I do want to try some of this soon but my own design would probably be an awful place to start. It would be fun to do a lot of different characters and make a quilt of them.
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