A few months ago, I decided I would join in the Riley Blake Mystery Block of The Month. Yes, I've made a Pinterest board to store them! And now it's March! Today brought an unexpected day off work, due to another mystery - the tiles smashed off Chloe's creche's roof on Monday, for no apparent reason - so creche was closed today! Day off work = catching up on planned projects.
I started with February, as you do. It is a paper pieced heart. This set my heart racing. I have seen so many beautiful and amazing paper pieced projects, that I never thought I would be able to do it. But it seems I sort of can......
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| Trying to wrap my head around how this all worked literally gave me a headache! |
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| All pieced together - with a couple of added bits here and there due to - ahemmmm - someone stuffing up. Note to self - do not take the paper off the back until the end! Whoops! |
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| All trimmed up! It's still not finished, as I have to work out how I am going to applique it on to the backing piece? I'm wondering if I should do it as I did the Dresden? Any suggestions would be welcomed! |
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| I then moved on to January's block. Which entailed HST's. Remember when I said I would be happy to never see them again? Well, today reminded me why. I must say - the trimming was made much easier with that little square ruler there ^^^^^^ |
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All laid out ready to put together!
I'm using the Willow range by Riley Blake, which I bought from Pink Castle Fabrics last month. Once the nine blocks are made up, I think it will be beautiful!
So, that's what I'm working on at present. You?
I'm linking up with Freshly Pieced. |
Looking good so far! Well done on the paper piecing!
ReplyDeleteLooks great. can your machine do a lovely raw edge Applique stitch? i wouldnt needle turn all those seams. Too hard.
ReplyDeleteIt'll be great... keep us in the loop!
Looks good!i will message the how to n reverse appliqué once the kids are in bed :)
ReplyDeleteCome on! That heart is so cute :-) Thanks for stopping by WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced!
ReplyDeleteYou paper pieced heart looks amazing! And your chevrons are coming together too. I'd applique the heart using heat n bond lite and then zig zag around the outer edge. I've had pretty good success with that.
ReplyDeleteI have already made the chevron (but for a different application--I sent them off as bee blocks. The paper pieced heart I haven't done yet, but I plan to use it in a wall hanging of my daughters improved pieced into blocks!