I have completed all
paper piecing and have started sewing together the sections of my FeatheredStar by Judy and Brad Niemeyer quilt.
I was able to do some
of the border paper piecing at the Buckeye Sewing Retreat I attended last
weekend.
Saturday morning I
worked in my sewing room, unpacking everything from the Retreat and setting up
my sewing machine. Then Saturday night I
finished the paper piecing and started working on the corners and my first Y
seams of the project. If you follow the
instructions the Y seams go together pretty easily. I did increase my stitch length in case I had
to reverse sew!!
The instructions have
you sewing sections together, so that you build the quilt area by area, corners,
middles and sides. I even started
removing paper last night; it took me about 30 minutes to remove the paper from
one of the sections. I have decided to
remove the paper from the inner parts of the sections prior to completing the
quilt.
I lay the section I’m
working on, on the table and use my ‘Purple Thang’ to help loosen the paper and
definitely have a trash can or bag handy. Of course my trash
can is a Buckeye one!!
I have had a couple areas where the glue
didn’t release, so I may have to use a little water with a Q-tip to finish
those areas.
I can’t wait to get
this finished!! I will be having Becky
Silbaugh of Ruby Blue Quilting Studio help to select the quilt pattern and then do the
quilting on her long arm machine.
