Paper-Pieced Quilts

I've been interested in paper piecing for quite some time, but I haven't done much of it. However, Carol Doak's methods make it very easy and, when she began an online group for paper piecers, I joined. So here is where I'll put any paper-pieced quilts I make.

On this page:

Spring Pansies
Conflagration
Home Sweet Home
Table Runner
Baravelle Spiral
Starry Starry Night
Spiked Desert Star


Spring Pansies

I was really in the mood for something spring-like, and I had this pattern hanging around.... ;) I do love pansies, so it seemed a good idea to go ahead and make this little miniature. It's only 15.75" x 9.75", and I paper-pieced it according to Carol Doak's easy method, machine quilting the petals of each flower and adding leaves to their stems. Then I did a small version of McTavish-style quilting in the background and a series of quilted pansies in the outer border. Flower buttons and beaded pansy centers were added after the quilting. There's also a narrow purple piping between the outer border and the binding. I finished this in April, 2006.







Conflagration

This is from a miniature pattern Carol Doak designed. I chose to do it in red, white and black, and it looked very "flame-like" to me when it was finished. I machine quilted it in a flame pattern with a variegated thread. It measures 12" x 12" and was finished in September, 2006. If you like this one, the pattern is on Carol Doak's web site.



Home Sweet Home

Carol Doak posted a row by row quilt (one row each month) for her online group. It was supposed to be lap-quilt size, but I wanted a smaller version. I redrafted all of the rows at half-size and made my version. The finished quilt measures 20.5" x 27.5"; I finished it in February, 2007. It's machine quilted, with each row having a different motif, and the borders have stars, hearts and flowers.


Here is a detail of part of the quilting:

Update: I entered this quilt into our local quilt show in February, 2008, and it won second prize in its category! Here it is with its ribbon:

Paper-pieced table runner

My mother-in-law loves blue and yellow almost as much as I do! :) She needed a  runner to use on her coffee table to accent a vase, so I made this one for her. 

The two end blocks are from a free pattern on Carol Doak's web site, and the center block is from her book Mariner's Compass Stars. The runner measures 17" x 48" and was completely machine pieced and machine quilted. I finished it in September, 2007, and gave it to my mother-in-law for Christmas.

Baravelle Spiral

This piece came from a book from a very good friend in the UK, Pat Storey; her book is called Geometrical Quilts. I loved this pattern at first glance, and it was natural for me to use it as the basis for a challenge quilt for the local guild. We had to use the two black and white prints you see, and we could also use as many other blacks and whites as we liked, as well as one other color. The quilt also had to be embellished, which was a true challenge for me, as I don't usually embellish mine.




The quilt was paper pieced (Pat's instructions were extremely clear!) and machine quilted and beaded. The original pattern added triangles to four corners to make the quilt square, but I decided to leave mine hexagonal. It measures 23.5" x 27.5" and was finished in April, 2008. Here are some details of the quilting:

     



Starry Starry Night

Carol Doak sponsored a BOM for her online group, beginning in September, 2007, and ending the following August. I made all of the blocks at 3" square and then couldn't decide how to set them together. As I was trying to solve the problem, the 4000th member joined the group, and Carol designed another block to celebrate. That block became the center of the little quilt with the BOM blocks.


All of the blocks are in shades of purple and lavender with yellow as an accent and black as the background. The quilt measures 15 1/4" square and is machine pieced and machine quilted. I finished it in August, 2008.




Spiked Desert Star

I took a class from Deb Karasik at Quilt Camp in 2008, and we made her paper-pieced pattern called Arizona Sunrise. I didn't square off my corners, choosing to leave the quilt octagonal instead; for that I had to redesign the borders in EQ6.

Another machine quilting class from Sharon Schamber inspired the quilting on this piece, which measures about 45" x 45". I finished it in November, 2008, after several delays.


Here is a detail of the quilting in the large navy squares:



And here are some of the other quilted motifs:





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