It Is Good To Be Queen... Size That is...

Hello Everyone,Yay!! The top is now Queen Size and complete!! My Glacier Star is now done... well I still need to quilt it, but for right now it is complete.You will remember me blogging about it several times.  The "inside" was done on this blog post.  Lots of curved flying geese later...and four corner borders...we now have grown into a Queen!I am very happy with it.  As I had said... way back when... these colors wouldn't normally be ones that I would choose.  You all know me as being bright and bold, so I stepped out of my box just...

A Question For You....

Hello Everyone,As many of you know, I simply adore paper piecing and have done many, many different kinds.  There are lots of reasons I love it.  For it's accuracy, the ability that it gives you to make those difficult types of piecing easier, and just the overall outcome.I have been pondering undertaking something new.And it will really depend on what many of you might say.*** Here is the link for the paper pieced teapots ***With my upcoming certification in Judy Niemeyer's program as a National Teacher for her patterns and techniques..Such as this one, and...this one, I have been busy...

Can You Hear Them???

Hello Everyone,As you know, I have been busy piecing the borders for my Glacier Star quilt to make it a queen size instead of just a wall hanging.   In the border you will find quite a bit of these...flying geese.  See all those trimmings, well there wasn't just one set of geese...no, not one...not two...not three..but a whole flock or gaggle!!  Can you hear them now??  I sure can!  They were fun to make, but I'll tell you when you make anything larger than a lap size everything gets multiplied by a gazillian! Now they are all stacked and ready...

Variations

Hello Everyone,This weekend was filled with TONS of paper piecing!  Some of my own and much of my students.  On Saturday, I taught a class for the guild that I am a member.  The class that I taught was the Seasonal Table Runner from Judy Niemeyer.  You can find it here in my shop.One of the things that always amazes me is the variations in color and the overall look of a piece from each of my students.  I wanted to share with you some that I took photos of during the class.There were many made from batiks.  This one...

All Lined Up

Hello Everyone,Yesterday and the day before, I had a little bit of time to sew for myself.  So I started on my Queen Size borders for my Glacier Star which I blogged about here.The border requires more H Units and more curved geese.You can see here I have all the H Units lined up and ready to chain piece!  That is right, with the method I used (Judy Niemeyer's) you can chain piece!! You can see my Paper Piecing Tutorial by clicking here.  It goes really quick. I am using batiks again for the borders, the same colors but different batiks....

A Star Is Born

Hello Everyone,Back in October I blogged about this quilt here and here.  Then it sat on my design wall while I finished up customer quilts for the Christmas rush.  Now I can show you how much progress I made on my Glacier Star Quilt.  The center "feathered" star.  I am in love with it!!The Lone Star portion all complete as of Tuesday.  Pardon my deck, it really needs to be re-stained.  But it has been unusually warm here the past few days with temps at about 58 degrees so I just had to go outside for photos.  We will be...

Total Eclipse Class ~ Part 3

Hello Everyone,Saturday marked the last day of the Total Eclipse Class that I taught in January.  Let me tell you these ladies were great!  They were all super talented and willing to learn and most of all they were all fabulous people.  Thank you all for being in my class, it was a pleasure.Onto the goodies...Sharon's wonderful purple version, love the bright version!Kathy chose these fabulous fall like colors, a terrific palette.Rita's version is somewhat of a gradation from darker/brighter to more calm.  Love the bright orange!Joan has this jewel tone version. So different and just yummy!Barbara hadn't completed all...

Paper Piecing, A Step By Step Tutorial

Hello Everyone, This is something that I have wanted to share with you for a long time.  Since I am a Certified National Teacher for Judy Niemeyer, I thought I would share the basics of paper piecing with you.  As I realize there are always several ways to do various techniques, this is the way that I paper piece and I hope that it is informative and helpful to you! This tutorial will focus just on straight piecing of flying geese, no curved piecing. It is based on Judy Niemeyer's pattern, Which Way is North, which can be found in...

Paper Piecing Class - Part Deux, The KM Unit

Hello Everyone,Saturday marked the 2nd day of my teaching the Judy Niemeyer's Total Eclipse Class.  When I came in and saw what all the ladies had accomplished over the week, I was ecstatic!! Mostly everyone completed their H units.  Those units are the quarter circles.  Here they are in all their glory...Joan's jewel tone beauties.Barbara L.'s  warm batiks.  She may have more on her blog too!Maria's warm batiks too, but she varied the spikes.  Gorgeous!Kathy's autumn like colors (on left) and Sharon's bright batiks (on right).Rita's Caribbean like colors.  I just love the chartreuse batik.Elisa was working with Kaffe Fassett...

Paper Piecing Class

Hello Everyone,Yesterday marked the first session of a Judy Niemeyer Paper Piecing Class that I am teaching here in CT.  The pattern we are making is Total Eclipse and can be found here.  We had a good time and I wanted to share with you!Everyone came prepared with some of the pre-class prep work...Barbara S. came prepared with a color layout of how she envisions her final quilt to look.  We will compare when the "real" quilt is done.Rita has some pretty batiks... love the chartreuse background!Elisa (a blogging friend) is preparing her pieces. Most likely you can read more...

Certifiable! ... and winners...

Hello Everyone,I know that you have seen all the following quilts on my blog at one point or another, but do you know what they all have in common?A Touch Of SpringSummer SolsticeA Garden For My Wedding RingFourth of July Seasonal Table RunnerGolden HarvestAnd Total Eclipse.Do you know yet?  Well, they are all paper pieced, and Judy Niemeyer patterns, I made them all.  But the most important and exciting thing to me besides the fact that I so enjoyed making them... They were my portfolio which helped me to become accepted into Judy Niemeyer's National Teacher Certification program!!I am besides myself...

The Makings of A Mug Rug and a Celebration Giveaway!!!!

Hello Everyone,Today was a good day!  I got the urge to do some paper piecing, a small project, a mug rug.So I dug into my scrap bin and pulled these fabrics out.Some brights with white on black fabric.  A bold and bright combination!  Just my style.Grabbed Unit J.  This is a paper foundation from Cappucino a Judy Niemeyer pattern.  The pattern can be found here.I then lined up the fabric in the order that I wanted to see them appear on Unit J.Pieced them in place.Put batting and backing on and then quilted it with simple straight lines.  Mind you...

Come Take A Class With Me!

Hello Everyone,Have you ever wanted to learn paper piecing?  Would you like to become fluent in curved piecing?  Have you been intrigued with Judy Niemeyer patterns and would like to learn HER techniques?If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this is the class for you!!You can learn all the above and more!  I will be teaching Judy Niemeyer's Total Eclipse Pattern in January on 3 Saturdays from 1-4!If you live in Connecticut or nearby, I would love to see you there.  This is a class for an advanced beginner as there are only two paper pieced units...

The Third Day

Hello Everyone,I hope you have been enjoying the chronicling of my annual quilt retreat in Vermont.  Here are some more progress photos from the third day!Maria's Christmas Celebration Tree Skirt... Looking good!!Sue's mini Pineapple.I took a little break in the middle of the day to visit my friend Frances Holladay Alford at her Embellishment Studio.  These few photos are from there.  Love the above button embellished pieces.Very fun and colorful art quilt!Close up of a bee on one of her art quilts.  You can see more of her work by visiting her website here.Justine has made a paper pieced forest!  Still more...

A Gaggle of Geese

Hello Everyone,The past couple of weeks I have been whittling away at a gaggle of paper pieced geese.  They are for my Glacier Star quilt that I posted about here.These are all paper pieced from Judy Niemeyer's pattern.  As many of you know, I adore paper piecing and her patterns!   These are fun because they are curved.They are then joined to these quarter circles.Like so and...like so.  I am in love!  These will be inset in the main "lone star" portion of the quilt.  You can see the main portion in this post here.Look at what they look like...

New Winner!

Hello Everyone,I never heard from the third winner of the Judy Niemeyer pattern giveaway.  Therefore, I drew a new winner!!The winner of Three Ducks in A Row is...Commenter Number 136...Rebecca!! Congratulations!! I sent you an e-mail, just send me your snail mail and the pattern will be in the mail.Until Next Time...

Have You Ever Seen A Glacier...?

Hello Everyone,Star, that is??As you know about 2 weeks ago, I was on a quilting retreat in Montana at Judy Niemeyer's retreat center.  You all have seen my Summer Solstice or as I named it "I Am Not Afraid Of Color".  See it by clicking here and here.But I also got started on another project, Judy's pattern Glacier Star.I chose to use eggplant purples, and greens, with a splash of navy blue. They are all batiks. It is now on my design wall.  I have a little way to go yet, but I am totally enjoying the process. The color looks...

A Giveaway Times 3

Hello Everyone,I am sure that you all recall this quilt that I was recently working on. Click here to see more detail...And maybe you remember this one too. You can see more about it here. I will be teaching this class in January. If you are interested in taking this class, send me an e-mail and I give you the details! You can see more about it here.Anyway, most of my readers know that I am a Judy Niemeyer fan. I love her designs and her patterns and recently returned from her retreat in Montana. While there, I had the...

Spikes for My Table

Hello Everyone,I hope that you are not getting tired of seeing my most recent Judy Niemeyer projects. But this is the last one for a while. The last time I shared this one with you, I had just finished it at my quilting retreat. You can see the post by clicking here.But I still needed to remove all the paper. That is now complete. Now to quilt it and get it on my table. But for the time being, I took it outside on a hot day photo shoot!Love all those wonderful spikes. I made it totally from batiks that...

Construction Of A Quilt Top

Hello Everyone,Remember when I posted about my Total Eclipse quilt here and here? I have finally finished the last four units and this weekend was able to put it up on the design wall. So I thought you might like to see the process of constructing this top on the design wall.First I needed to put the big spiky units up on the wall. This wasn't too challenging at this point. I think I was able to achieve a good layout and mix of the colors.Now I had to add the border units. This was a little more challenging because...