String Piecing Fun

It is currently six below (Celcius) with forecasts for even colder weather next week.  So it is a good time to be working on my "indoor" snow.

Paper Snowflake Design from Week 2 by Kari Schell

When I went to piece the borders for my snowflake quilt, they were just too boring.  Way too much of the white fabric!  So I decided to spice things up with some string piecing.  

I had never done string piecing before, but I figured it was a variation on foundation piecing.  So I cut a series of 3/4 inch, 1 inch and 1-1/2 strips of a dozen or so white and light blue fabrics.  I then used my foundations from last week as a base for the strings.

However, I realized that this could also be done by drafting the units in Electric Quilt and foundation piecing them.  My one rule that I worked with is that each triangle needed to be one foundation to keep things simple.

In this tutorial I will be sharing how to draft these foundation units along with my hack in drafting "non-square block foundations".  Following my suggestion will save you a lot of grief -- trust me.

Paper Snowflakes with String Pieced Borders by Kari Schell

Here are my "real quilt" pieced borders.

Here is my real work-in-process quilt.  Now I am trying to decide if I want to put little snowflakes in the corners.  In my sample below I am auditioning a few ideas..   

Will I ever get this done???

Paper Snowflake Work In Progress by Kari Schell

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Foundation Piecing/Paper Piecing Definition – A design that can be pieced by sewing on the lines of a foundation (typically paper).

My favorite blocks for foundation piecing includes (1) Miniature blocks/quilts; (2) Blocks with odd sized pieces that are not easily rotary cut-able; and (3) Realistic looking (i.e. pictoral) blocks

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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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