Thank you Carol Doak!!!

[Sewdreamy]

I tried many times to do paper piecing and just couldn't get it to work well for me, and then I watched the Carol Doak's video on paper piecing. It helped me figure out just how to place things. This is just the right time for me because I'm making a pictorial quilt based on the Storm at Sea block that requires soemwhere between 6 and 10 blocks. It takes for-e-ver, but I was able to make one and have started on the next and the points look pretty good to me. Here's a picture (it is square, unlike the picture).


Thank you Carol Doak!!!

[Zarah]

Looks pretty good to me too
Interesting color placement

[Sewdreamy]

Thanks Norma. A section of a wave in a pictorial quilt will be made from these blocks...assuming I can get all the points in all the blocks to line up right. LOL

[Renata]

You'll do fine at lining the blocks up, BJ! My very first quilt was paper pieced and my sister taught me--her method was pretty much what Carol Doak does and I never forgot how to do it. It's almost like riding a bike! :lol: Hope you'll show us your progress on your Storm at Sea design--the block is very pretty! Congratulations on mastering foundation paper-piecing!

[Sewdreamy]

"Mastering" might be a point too far, but at least I can use it. Anyway, I will be journaling this quilt on my personal blog and taking lots of pictures.

[Sewdreamy]

Here's the EQ7 image of the blocks lined up. You have to imagine the rest of the quilt. :lol: :lol: :lol: Though I may rotate the blocks somewhat.

[Reetzbobeetz]

Looking good BJ. I love the Storm at Sea pattern. I might even make a block someday now that I know it can be paper-pieced.

[Renata]

That's a jazzed up version of Storm at Sea, BJ--very nice!

[Lorchen]

Betty Jo, I have a wall where that quilt would look great!!

'Storm at Sea' is one of the quilt patterns that I really, really want to get to grips with..... after I retire.

[rehak]

I also have a storm at sea in my future. Yours is looking great!

Nancy

[gynconnie]

BJ, very cool! I like the undulating effect in your design.

[Zarah]

Cool BJ. I had a feeling that you were doing a thing like that with the colors. Thanks for showing it.

[lorra]

BJ I really like your Storm at Sea block. When locking at the drawing of the quilt, you can really see the undulations of the waves. Since I am prone to motion sickness, I will probably not make one, but I do like it. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[genevacarroll]

BJ, Your storm at sea design is very nice. Foundation piecing gets easier as you do it more. By the time you finish all the blocks you'll be an expert! I love foundation piecing. Perfect points every time. Enjoy!

Geneva

[Sewdreamy]

BJ I really like your Storm at Sea block. When locking at the drawing of the quilt, you can really see the undulations of the waves. Since I am prone to motion sickness, I will probably not make one, but I do like it. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

It is funny you say that. I was feeling a little motion sick myself yesterday when I finished the third block. :lol: :lol: :lol: But wait until you see the whole quilt. I hopefully am going to get lots of motion throughout the quilt. I was even thinking of making it a voyage of the Dawn Treader quilt, with "water" spilling through the border, but decided I would have too many copyright issues to deal with. Might take that cause up someday later, though. Sometimes you can even get permission to do these things.