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| Thuban |
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| My hand dyed fat quarters |
I've been doing a little paper piecing this weekend. A fellow blogger Kristy, showed her pieced block in this pattern and I just about flipped for it. It's called Thuban and was only .99 cents through epatterns. I thought it would be perfect for the 12 fat quarters I hand died earlier in the week. 12 fat quarters, 12, 12 inch blocks. Viola - a quilt! That was before I pieced the block. OMG! Talk about intense! There's LOTS of little bits and LOTS of piecing. This was probably not the right block to choose for a very inexperienced paper piecer. But you know, I've never taken the easy road with anything, why start now?
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The blue is from one fat quarter I dyed and the solid is organic seed cotton off white.
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Am I going to continue with the rest of the 11 fat quarters? Good question. I should but that doesn't mean I will. I think in the end it will make a fantastic quilt. I'm just weighing the pros and cons of how much of a labor intensive project I want to take on as this IS my finishing year and I have lots of almost done projects waiting for my attention. My quilting group, Running with Scissors, has it's yearly retreat in October and I'll need a project to take with me. This might be the one to bring.
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Piecing close up
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I do like the pattern.......but I'm back to work tomorrow (ugh) and will no longer have all this leisure time on my hands to work on such a big project. I think I'll just pin my one and only completed block up on my pin board in my office and look at it a lot.
wow, looks amazing! and you dyed your own fabric! i'm impressed!
ReplyDeleteIt looks so beautiful McKenna! You did a great job for being fairly new to paper piecing - and hey it's always more fun (maybe fun's not the right word...) when you just jump in the deep end and try something!
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