That looks great Debbie!

Andrée

Looks beautiful, Debbie!!

Nancy

Debbie, that is wonderful! Love how you play with different values for your trees. So glad you're doing it--it is really fun, isn't it?

I am happy!

Renata--your trees look great. I have wanted to make this quilt for a while so the classes have been wonderful. I was at a quilting day yesterday and made trees and more trees--lots of fun. (The colour is washed out as the light is not good and I don't have my camera--had to use my phone).

lorra wrote: Oh yes... It seems I fall in love with fabrics and projects I can do with my stash, but before one is finished, I just have to start the next one... Lots of UFO's, waiting to be quilted, this year's BOM (aaaaHHH those blanket stiches!),a "quilt as you go" blanket to use up all these bali-pop or Jelly roll strips,... I guess I needed a paper-pieceing project?

Andrée

I wouldn't bother if you can rustle up this top from them. It's so vibrant, well done

Thanks, Cathy, for your kind remarks. I hope you get the chance to work this little quilt in (if you can finish it before Christmas! ) I only have one outstanding quilt started and not finished with piecing and two that need to be quilted, but I haven't been quilting as long as some of you so no chance to accumulate unfinished projects in large numbers even though my fabric stash is healthy without specific projects in mind. So far, I have not had to purchase any fabric for Holiday Lights and will probably be able to finish it without a purchase and I've only had to buy fabric for binding a few of my mug rugs because I just did not have the right color. I'm hoping to keep it like this but who knows, only time will tell! I'm starting to work on taming my scrap pile!

Renata, your trees look wonderful. I think it is calling for a bear, or a deer in there somewhere. Oh, I forgot, they are all at Ricky's!
I really do love your trees. I may decide to make one too. After I finish my DGD's quilt, my mug rugs, and Ricky's summer BOM. I am not even going to mention the quilt I started at the Des Moines show, or the one I started at my last guild meeting. Or the beautiful fabric my DD gave me for Christmas last year. So much to do and so little time. At least I am enjoying the trip.
Do the rest of you have this problem??

Great tute, Andrée! Thanks!

Glad to help... And I forgot to mention (but everybody knows that about paper-piecing)... consider that it is the reversed of what is drawn (since we put the fabric on the reverse side)...

Thanks for all the effort, Andrée! I have the exact same graph paper by Canson which I used for another project--never even dawned on me to use it for paper-piecing. Will definitely play with your idea--never hurts to have another tool in the tool box! Brilliant, thank you!

Part 2:

I plan to have my border with the colors setup this way. The 2 vertical strips are oriented the same way, but the horizontal strips need to be traced with the diagonal on the opposite side:



Need to take that into account when tracing and then piecing the triangles...

Andrée

Part one of my border plan:

I use this brand of graph paper, it has a bold line each inch, and one each eight:


I cut strips, and I attach them at the end to the desired lenght (if I count correctly, 40 inches (8 X 5 inches) for the vertical strips (plus 2 for the corner which I include in the long strips), and 36 inches (9 X 4 Inches) for the horizontal strips. When I attach them, I make sure to align the bold lines, and make up a square inch.

I trace the diagonals of the HST: (please read next post, the last step in my thought process is important){!-- ia0 -->IMG_0488.JPG{!-- ia0 -->