Depression Paper Piecing

We have enjoyed learning several varying styles of Paper Piecing. Here is another one Mary showed us. Using 4 x 9 strips of newspaper and all your scraps (all sizes) of material, fill up several newspaper strip and then sew all the strips together. Use the finished piece for a quilt, hand bag, place mat or anything else you can think of. Mary shows how she used hers as a quilt and a project bag.

Class Demonstration

Teri gave a great demonstration on Picture piecing today! We saw examples of her work in the last post. Today we made butterflies, well, most of us watched in awe. You can see Amy above admiring her work, she did a great job completing her piece during class.

Below I finally got Teri to pose in a picture here with Amy. Thanks Teri for showing us this today. I plan on making a few!

Picture Piecing

Teri recently took a class on Cynthia England's 'Picture Piecing'. This first picture is what they worked on in class. It almost looks like it was painted, well, I guess it was 'painted' with material.

This week Teri is going to go a demonstration for us on the process. It is a lot like paper piecing with a few tricks, one is using freezer paper. This is the kit she is offering us to do after her demostration. She will also have some of these strawberrys ready if anyone is interested. It is just a little more challenging than the butterfly.

Amy's Quilts

Amy's is working on paper piecing an animal quilt. Accomplishing one each week during the quilt group, she is fast on her way to completing a great quilt.This is Amy's first quilt she brought to show us. Her mother helped her cross stitch the frogs for Amy's daughter, then embrodried at the bottom are their 3 names and the date. It has been in her cedar chest waiting the birth of her first child. Thanks Amy for sharing this treasure.

Foundation Piecing

One of the first techniques we tried out is foundation piecing. Everyone had so much fun with it that we have ended up doing a new one every week.

Janice is showing two pieces she completed. She took hers a step ahead and put two of her paper pieced animals into a ‘quillow’.

It was quite a hit! We all loved it and want to do one of our own.

It also inspired Teri and I to finish our foundation pieced quilts we started many years ago.