Howdy y'all! Hope this weekend is treating you well! Today, I have not one, but TWO finishes to share with you. I finished binding these two minis last night and despite the forecast for rain, the sun stayed out for me to get them photographed. :)
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| Double the minis, double the fun! |
These two minis are my first two tries at paper piecing and what fun I've had! I love having a new skill in my quilting tool belt, it opens up so many more doors. I definitely got acquainted with my seam ripper, but I never felt overwhelmed figuring these out.
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| All I can think about is bumblebees when I look at this. Lol. |
The first one is the
pattern from SloStudio that I shared with y'all last week. I ended up quilting around the edges of the black areas with black thread - I didn't want to distract from the piecing I worked so hard on!
And it was fate to have that black binding because I found a leftover piece of black binding from something I sewed for my Mom. It looks sharp and frames it so well!
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| Why hello there, Little Mermaid! |
Next is my pride and joy. I found the pattern for
The Warsaw Mermaid on Craftsy a while back and saved it despite it being a paper piecing pattern.
Some day is what I thought as I filed it away. Well some day ended up being this week! As I was going through my fabric, I noticed that I had the perfect colors for a Little Mermaid and I remembered this pattern.
"NOW! RIGHT NOW!"
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| I absolutely adore her hair! |
So I scrambled to print the pattern and get started. On this one, I took a note out of
Jenn @ A Quarter Inch From the Edge's book and colored the pattern pieces according to what fabric went where. It was such an easy thing to do, but such a lifesaver!
This one sat and marinated for a little as I tried to figure out what to bind it with. Nothing fit. I was afraid of ruining my hard work with a crappy binding job. Then, yesterday evening, it hit me - I didn't need a binding! I found
this tutorial by Red Pepper Quilts and finished it via the birthing method. It's not quite as neat as I wanted, but for a first try, I'm happy with it. :)
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| A happy little pair to add to the wall of minis! |
I already have plans to make some more mermaids (there are a couple of little girls in my family that LOVE Ariel), so I'm sure you'll be seeing more of them before Christmas time!
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| I was playing with my camera and LBC was cooperative for once! :) |
I love paper piecing too. Your first attempts are fantastic. Love both of them, but the mermaid is my favorite. The little girls in the family will cherish them. LBC sure is handsome and what a great pose.
ReplyDeletePaper piecing really is fun! I may have to do an improv project, just to cool my jets a little bit. LOL. I love seeing my Little Mermaid on the wall by my sewing machine, it just makes me so happy. I can't wait to make some more mermaids to pass that happiness along! :) And LBC is a handsome boy! I usually have to take stealthy pictures of him to capture that handsomeness, otherwise he runs away! Lol.
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