Saturday, January 9, 2016

London Modern Quilt Guild Meeting--paper pieced pincushion.


This morning was the first meeting of 2016 for the London Modern Quilt Guild.  After a very brief business meeting, Kristin led us in a paper piecing workshop to make these pincushions. This dark gray one is the sample that Kristin made to show us.  She had made up kits for each of us to use, trying to fool herself into thinking that she was reducing her stash...


I sorted out my pieces of fabric from light to dark in colour families.

 
 I started with yellow and worked my way through the colour wheel.


This is the first of 4 sections.


I managed to finish 2 sections before the end of the meeting.


Tonight, I made the last 2 sections and sewed them together. It finishes at 4.5" square.  This looks so cool!!!  (There are 18 pieces in each section of this project!)


This weekend's handwork project is removing all of those little pieces of paper!


A couple of years ago, I received these tweezers with a magnifying glass attached.  They are for removing small pieces of paper when paper piecing.  They are perfect for this job!


I hope to finish this pincushion sometime this week.

We had warm weather today... and some rain.  There is no snow.  Very weird weather for this time of year.


I am linking up to Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching.  Once I get all that paper removed, maybe I will have time to do some hand quilting on my wool applique squirrel project...

18 comments:

  1. I am very impressed! Such tiny little pieces...WOW!I just love the circle of geese, yours is looking great.

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  2. Wow those sure are small pieces and they look great, what a fun piece. Love the tweezers with the magnifying glass.

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  3. I love that little pincushion. Your rainbow of pieces is very pretty. That is a great little device you have for removing the paper pieces.

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  4. What a very cool pin cushion! I don't like picking out the paper either but I love the results of paper piecing. Using lighter paper sure does help. I have never seen tweezers like that but see where they sure could help! Have fun stitching today!

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  5. Geeeesh! I commented....but then it disappeared so I will try again
    Yes this DOES look cool! Initially I thought this was a large-ish block....then I read the size....even more impressed that it is so small. Wonderful work as always!

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  6. Oh my goodness it is so tiny! It looks amazing, but I detest paper piecing and miniatures--so I will just admire your work. Excellent!

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  7. Taking out the paper is not the fun part, but the block is just adorable. Certainly worth the effort. Enjoy the finished block!

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  8. Wow, I love that!! I am going to look for a pair of those tweezers too.

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  9. Lovely pin cushion and so small! Lol!

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  10. It is so pretty and so tiny pieces.

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  11. Love the pincushion! I have tweezers/mag glass but have always used them to get splinters and thorns out of my fingers after gardening. I never thought of them as a sewing tool!

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  12. WOW! That's a huge amount of work -- but it's lovely and the preciseness of it makes it totally worth it! Have fun with your tweezers and magnifying glass! LOL! :)

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  13. Love it!! Do you know where I could find the pattern?

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  14. Sorry to have missed the meeting! The pin cushion is delightful!

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  15. The block is so cute...and tiny!

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