Foundation Paper Piecing. Love it or loath it, it's a marvelous method with great accuracy. It's been around for many, many years. Whoever 'invented' it is a very smart cookie! I also think that about the 'No-Waste Flying Geese' method!! Not being a smart cookie helps me appreciate this clever stuff very much.
Sharon Leek feels the same. She is on fire with Foundation Paper Piecing. She's mastered it beautifully. Obviously she has, just look at this block. This is the one she started in class and finished at home.
This is the one she made at home, completely unsupervised! Not that she was supervised in class. All top tips must have soaked in. There's another block in progress too, yellow-ish fabrics already chosen for it. I'm thinking Sharon might a new addiction, who knows?
Our Pam is making great progress with her easy, but you need to concentrate on the fabric colour placement, quilt. Each block looks woven so just one fabric in the wrong place would have needed unpicking, no way round it. Pam didn't unpick any, she aced it.
Do you enjoy the game of "Thread Chicken"
I'm filled with a huge amount of excitement when I play. I sell Presencia threads in my shop (amongst others) it's my favourite thread for piecing my projects, 3 ply, 60 wt. Very strong and fine. I've used them for about 20 years. The cones, each is 125g, last such a long time, obviously, but once the blue cone starts to appear it's sooooo exciting! You just know that you have sewn A LOT!! This was the start of Monday's Thread Chicken Game...
I did a lot of practical sewing. I've been making some bags. Little carrier bags to gift to unsuspecting customers who purchase lovely fabrics in my shop. Just to use up some of my older stash, fabrics purchased in Brazil in the early 2000's. Once they were finished and in the bag! I got back to my very own Foundation Paper Piecing project, this is another Feathered Star block. I will change that centre bit, I don't like it. PMS (Pleasing My Self) because I can
Emptied! No tears...
Can you believe that I cheated???
It got very scary so I decided to make a bobbin with what remained on the cone.
That's definitely cheating! But it felt so good!!! Call me a rebel, I can take it, ha ha ha
