I’ve often said that I love paper piecing.

All the points are nice and pointy.  It’s a very accurate method of putting a quilt block together.

It’s also a bit of a challenge because it’s very easy to screw up the entire piece if you aren’t paying attention.

Having said that, I just finished making Block 8 for the Fall into a Quilt-A-Long.  And it’s paper pieced.

Just want to say that I forgot how messy it is.  Bits of fabric and paper now litter my sewing room floor.  Gotta get the vacuum out and clean up the mess, but thought I’d write this first.  Before I forgot how much “fun” it is to make a paper pieced quilt block.

Besides being messy, it uses more fabric than cutting little pieces.  Here you have to cut a piece larger than necessary so you make sure it’s big enough to cover the seams and any little points that you definitely don’t want to miss.  Plus it takes extra time to make a paper pieced block.

Anyhow.  I still love paper piecing.  Not crazy about the mess, though!

Block 8 of the Fall Into a Quilt-A-Long, was designed by Jennifer Fulton.  She gave two versions.  One for “confident beginners” and another for “beginners”.  I went with the former version because I am nothing but confident!

I usually follow the patterns pretty close out of respect for the designer.  They took the time to make this pattern and test it then gave it to me for free!  But this one called for four greens for the background and I was only using one green for this entire quilt so just used that one for all the greens.

I screwed up a time or two or three…I put a color in the wrong spot but decided it wasn’t serious enough to rip apart and then I had to sew two pieces together of one of the fabrics because I didn’t have a large enough piece. Then I couldn’t find the brown that I’m using in the quilt.  What!!!! I keep each project in its own space.  I only needed a wee bit and found enough for the stem of the leaf but now I’m going crazy looking for that brown!    I was just reorganizing my yardage on boards and bits smaller than a fat quarter into bins. It’s not there and it’s not in the project basket. I need you! I have four more blocks to make! Where did you go? Seriously.

Anyhow….

The block turned out very very pretty.

It’s about a 1/4″ too small so I’ll probably put a small green border around it to make it come up to 12 1/2″. Later.  When I start squaring up the blocks.

And here are eight blocks!

Makes me wish Fall would hurry up and get here!  It’s 90 degrees and 90% humidity here in Homosassa.

I have a friend that wants the quilt.  She saw it on Facebook.  “I’ll pay you for it”. I was actually planning on giving it someone else.  And I don’t even know how to charge for a quilt.  I think fabric is incredibly expensive.  Unless you quilt, you would not realize how much it costs to make one. Then there is all the time and effort put into it.

Anyhow…while I’m contemplating that….

I gotta go dust and vacuum my sewing room and maybe clean out my sewing machine!