I went to a monthly get-together with quilting friends yesterday, and didn’t feel like taking my machine with me, so I picked up a hand-piecing project that I haven’t worked on in a while. This one has been taking a back seat due to my focus on the Over the Rainbow quilt. Now that that project is in the machine piecing stage, I can feel free to work on other English paper piecing projects, and this feels like the next logical “focus.”
I started and finished the gray otters unit above, and then I started and finished the orange-yellow (yellow-orange?) honeybees (with Elizabeth center). I’m not a fan of the Elizabeth print, but I have it, so I felt like I should use it. Do you have fabrics like that?
Since I started this website, I haven’t yet posted about this quilt. I started the Tula’s Bloomers as part of a weekend workshop with Tula Pink in March 2017. At the time the design was unnamed, and the workshop was on English paper piecing. It had a wealth of information and techniques.
These were my first units (no surprise they’re kitties!):
I love her use of dots and stripes for effect, which I immediately put into use in my own units (the blue and navy tent stripe around the center hexagon). I also loved learning how to create larger units from smaller units. It was a really fun and educational workshop.
I’ll try to post close-up photos the other blocks in another post. I don’t think I have many more to put together before I can begin assembling them in earnest.