Sunday, March 18, 2012

Four Spring Flowers Sewn Together

Spring Flowers paper-pieced blocks, still to be trimmed to 8.5" x 16.5" unfinished

Here's a brief update on Spring Flowers quilt, which has a very quick deadline. After much preparation and planning, I started sewing the paper-pieced flower blocks last night. I got one completely sewn together, and one in three sections. I took them to the Sacramento Modern Quilt Guild meeting today as part of my show and tell. After working this evening, I now have four flower blocks sewn together. I'm waiting until all of the blocks are sewn together before I trim them to the desired size of 8.5" x 16.5" unfinished. I need to get eight blocks done tomorrow to stay on track.

I usually have the television on while I sew, but I can get distracted and end up watching TV instead of sewing. When I have a tight deadline, as I have now, I leave the TV off and listen to Pandora radio through my smartphone. (I used to listen to music on Dish, but I lost all of my music channels when I downgraded.) I get entertainment without distraction. It works for me.

3 comments:

  1. I'll say it's working! Now, are these paper or free form pieced? In any case, they are just lovely!

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  2. Thanks, Michele. They are paper pieced, but I drew the detail lines free-hand so they are not exactly the same. Petals and stems will be different sizes, at different angles, etc., which should make each of them unique - not just a different purple fabric. I could have done them free-form, but I was afraid the proportions would be way off. I just referred to a sketch and eyeballed the detail lines. I'll be posting more detail soon.

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  3. Looks like you are moving along Debbie! Great to see you at the meeting on Saturday. :)

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