Cristy Fincher visited our guild recently and I took her workshop on Paperless Paper Piecing. Working with her pattern, Folded, we used glue to hold the pieces together. Cristy is an excellent teacher - organized, patient, and upbeat.
This is the finished top. The center points are not perfect. If they bother me when the quilting is complete, I'll applique something or use thick decorative thread as camouflage. This top is 40" by 40"; a good size for a baby/toddler quilt.
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| Folded Star with border |
I finished one twelve-inch block by the end of class. Cristy suggested a cropped photo in the
PicFrame app (a 99 cent purchase.)
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| One quadrant of the Folded Star pattern |
The app collages photo collections but quilters can quickly copy, paste, and rotate a single photo into different layouts. Like this.
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| Folded Star 1, single view |
If you wanted a larger quilt, sixteen blocks might look like this. It was just a quick save and copy of the previous display in PicFrame.
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| Folded Star 1, multiple view |
The layout I used looks like this with the app. The offset center and poorly matched seams are artifacts of my poor cropping.
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| Folded Star 2, single view |
Sixteen blocks look like this.
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| Folded Star 2, multiple view |
PicFrame made design decisions so easy. It was fun to share the results with other participants during the workshop.
I don't have enough fabric to make the multiple views. The single view finishes 24 inches. I added two borders cut 4.5" each. My first plan was to put a four-patch in the corners. It didn't look good no matter which way the red or pale green was arranged. Then I tried pale green inside with red wrapped around it. (Sorry, I forgot to take photos of these.) But the layout with red on the inside wrapped in pale green worked.
With paperless paper piecing, seam allowances are cut larger and trimmed after the seam is sewed.
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| Seams are trimmed to 1/4 inch after each is sewed. |
The quilting needs careful planning since all the designs will show on these solids.
Edit:
Tami and Susan took the workshop, too. I just found Tami's website. She wrote almost exactly what I did (and she wrote it first) but head over to
Lemon Tree Tales for a look at this pattern in different fabrics. Susan, who blogs at
Quilt Frabrication, has another lovely layout.
Enjoy the day, Ann
