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Saw this at the quilt show, bought a kit for paper piecing. The pieces are really small, each diamond measure 4 inches in length. Used the scraps (from the trash literally) of Kaffe Fassett fabric leftovers.

My mother-in-law collects pelicans. This is for her. A paper-pieced pelican surrounded by ocean waves. The triangles are pretty tricky because the good measurement is the 2-inch hypotenuse (long side); luckily a had a specialized template. Made a black french knot for the eye, and then chained stitched around with yellow floss. It was hard to embroider due to the folded back fabric from the paper-piecing. Stitched in the ditch with variegated blue (ocean) and clear thread. 12-2012

2011 Paper pieced. Individual blocks are about 4 inches square. Uses the very smallest scraps and strings.

Paper-pieced red, white and blue pineapples. Block is 6 1.4 inches finished. Uses 1 1/4 inch strips. 7/12/13 - Discovered that the printer is distorting the pattern. Some of my blocks are 1/4 off being square. 8 done 7/23/13 - Went to Kinko's to get the pattern printed but the paper jammed their machines. Still got some. Making corners - 3 blues. 7/28/13 - Made some blocks incorrectly, white in corners. Had to rip. Finished 2 blocks 8/14/13 - The outer border should have fewer white sections, making the outside all blue. Have one block done. 9/2/13 - Only 2 1/2 blocks left to go. Think that the incorrectly sied blocks can be trimmed to size. There are 10 of them and I don't want to redo all 10. 10/5/13 - Working on the last two blocks 10/8/13 Finished the last two blocks but the printer is working now and I have lots of papers, so I decided to redo the blocks that are non-square.

The first wreath - Winter - with the reds and greens was made during a class introducing paper piecing. I decided to make three more wreaths with colors appropriate to spring, summer and fall to practice the technique. The quilt was hand quilted but I learned that machine quilting was easier on the hands when it came to a paper pieced top.

Paper pieced blocks and hand quilted

In 2001 my mother needed special care and I created this for her.