Quilty Lovelieness ... At Last!

[Pearl]

Freezer paper pieced?  How is that done?

[coffeeandcake]

She had help creating this, crediting Amy Del Grosso and Bonnie Taylor but I dont know what part they played.
The later quilts  credit these two a lot and when I read further I might find out what they do.


Bonnie Taylor Tyler must have sung to her while she was doing it.

Sorry

[Iminei]

Freezer paper pieced means drawing out the design on freezer paper, cutting the various elements of the design up, ironing them onto the different fabrics, cutting the shapes out ... adding your seam allowance as you go ... and then sewing the pieces together while trying to keep the darned templates in place!!!

This means you have ample opportunity to bugger things up ... when you're drawing the templates, when you're cutting them out, when you're cutting the fabric with the seam allowance and when you're sewing the pieces together.

You iron them onto the right sides of the fabric and keep them in place trying to match the hash marks on the templates (like matching notches in a dress pattern) on the two pieces even though they are on the inside of  sewn pieces ... Oh yes a veritable funfair to be had!

[Celia]

Sorry this might be a very silly question but why not iron them on the wrong side then you can see them?

[Lowena]

Told you, it's the work of
I just know I'd forget to add the seam allowance

[Lilian]

Sorry this might be a very silly question but why not iron them on the wrong side then you can see them?

 I will find the video I watched about how to use FP, I am sure the paper was visible when being sewn  :thinking:

[Iminei]

I dont know, thats just the way she does it ... maybe because adding a reverse image/template is too complicated????

[Deafoldbat]

maybe because adding a reverse image/template is too complicated

I've used this method for making Mariner's Compass. The instructions for it in Judy Mathieson's book tell you to iron the freezer paper on to the wrong side of the fabric but also reminds you that you have to make sure you have worked out exactly which piece goes where and what colour or you end up with a 'right side' that is the reverse of your original plan. I surmise that these gemstone patterns advise you to iron on to the right side to save having to think/overloading your brain. As with many things in this life, you do what works for you...


(https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mariners-Compass-Quilts-Print-Demand/dp/0914881973)

[Iminei]

@Deaf  you are as always wonderful

[Iminei]

MJ Kinman explains the Gemstones

Worth getting through the fawning presenter to her methods

[Ellabella]

MJKinman explains the Gemstones

Worth getting through the fawning presenter to her methods

I read that as Milkman explains Gemstones!

[realale]

I read that as Milkman explains Gemstones!

So did I!! 

[Iminei]

Looking at my Emerald, a very simple block

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I think the knockout facet is the lightest which really does look like its reflecting light and the fabric I wish Id had the courage to use more of was the mottled one and lastly the fabric that just didnt work (in my eyes) is the one with the curved stripes ... but it was the only other green which was the right tone of green.

It is all about the colour placement so Im now on the hunt for the best solid range of colours, not just one green or red but multiple tones and hues og green and red

[Acorn]

Wow - just look how 3-d that is in the thumbnail!    Thumbnails are brilliant for assessing quilt blocks. 

[Ploshkin]

Exactly my thoughts @Acorn