PAPER PIECING PARTY FRIDAY

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It's Friday and that means it's time to link up

with the Paper Piecing Party!!

MINI TRAJECTORY

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I thought I'd forgotten to take any pictures when I pieced this wonderful quilt,

from the pattern  >>HERE<<  through  CRAFTSY .

Have you checked out Craftsy? They have scads of patterns for everything you can imagine!

There are free and fee patterns available.

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HAPPY STITCHING  :)

Friday's Paper Piecing Adventure

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I thought today I would show you what can happen when the fabric piece you use 

isn't large enough!

I'll wager that most of those that pp have had this occur

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can you see my faux pas? It was a little smaller when the block first went together,

I was so PO'd. However, I decided to take things in stride and not fix this but

instead have this block as a constant reminder to

"make sure my pieces of fabric are large enough to cover"

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The finished block :)

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Check out the other pp'ers hosted by Kristy @  Quiet Play

Paper Piece Party

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It's Friday (actually Saturday) and that means it's time to link up another 

PAPER PIECED PROJECT

for Quiet Play and the Paper Piecing Party.

I stitched this bluebird offered by Liljabs

and made it into a pillow.

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It's Friday's Paper Piecing Link Up with Quiet Play

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It's Friday and that means it's time to link up

to QUIET PLAY'S PAPER PIECING PARTY !

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Last week I was in the midst of piecing together the 

TARDIS for the Dr. Who QAL with Whims and Fancies .

Well I managed to complete the block in record time (for me)

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From this...

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To this!

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Don't you love the way it's hurdling through the time space continuim?

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Just for good measure and since I was in the zone,

even though this is late,  

my 

And Sew On BoM!

I'm still having a problem with matching up some angles.

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Thank you Kristy for this fun opportunity to "play".

Pop on over to Quiet Play and see what the rest of the group is up to or better yet, join us!

Until next Friday (or sooner),

HAPPY STITCHING  :)

PAPER PIECING PARTY HAPPENING...YEAH

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Kristy @ Quiet Play

is having a party and you're all invited to join the fun!

It doesn't matter where your skill levels are in the world of

paper piecing (pp) for this party! We're all here to share our love of this

sewing technique.

Kristy is the Grand Mistress of pp designs!

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This is what I've been stitching away at, slowly, over the past couple of weeks.

The "TARDIS" block from Whims and Fancies  "Doctor Who QAL".

I know it doesn't look like much right now, but give me a few more nights like

this evening and I should have this block finished and on to the next in this wonderful series,

the "TIME LORD"!

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If you've been toying with the idea of pp, try it! You might just find out that you like it!

If you need more good reasons to try pp, check out Kristy's remarkable patterns

>>>HERE<<<<

I'm lovin' the "RETRO KITCHEN" patterns ;)

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HAPPY PAPER PIECING :)

DOCTOR.WHO.ALONG

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Whims and Fancies is hosting this fun SAL and the first block is the 

TARDIS!

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My oldest has just discovered this long running program and is stoked.

I was perusing around this evening and low and behold look at what I came across,

I couldn't believe it.

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Dr.Who, K-9, Romana, the Daleks and Davros.

This is going to be an interesting adventure in paper piecing that's for sure.

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HAPPY STITCHING  :)                                  

My tape measure sucks!

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My BoM for January,

I definitely need to find a better  marker or some tape measure fabric!

My tape measure sucks! It sucks a whole bunch!!

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February will be better, I just know it.

Okay, I'm trying to psych myself up here people.

This might fall in line for a re ~ do.

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Until something better shows up,

HAPPY STITCHING :)

Wicked Blog Hop with a side order of GIVEAWAY!

Today, October 26th (double 13s), is my day to be just a little wicked but first

  THANK YOU to both

the Wickedly Wonderful Wendy of Why Knot Kwilt

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the Mistress of the blog hop Madame Samm

for orchestrating this devilishly fun 

WICKED BLOG HOP!

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Here's the list of the other "Trick or Treaters" for today

so grab a cuppa tea, coffee or whatever you fancy and get comfortable.

Here we go ~

In Stitches and Seams

sew.darn.quilt (that's me)

Quilt Monster in My Closet

Count It *All* Joy

Lieselfriends-Die Handnaher

The Learning Curve Quilts and Such

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Is it time for a refill or top up?

Go ahead, we'll wait for you!

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Qreative Quilts and Quests

Sew Many Yarns

Annieoak Designs

Searching Out Simple

Sheila"s Quilt World

Val Spiers Sews

and direct from That Other Blog....Robin

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Visit all these amazing blogs to see what marvelous eye candy awaits.

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My first block is from a paper piece pattern by

Sonja of ARTISANIA

I just kicked it up a notch with the wonky borders!

Hello, "Jack~OH~Lantern"!

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Next, is another of Sonja's designs...

what would Halloween be without the

"Meowing Mistress of the Night"

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This "Wayward Witch" is also Sonja's pattern,

this gal is shooting for the stars on her Nimbus 2000

unfortunately she's not handling the altitude all that well and is a little green

about the gills, poor Deary!

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The final offering is one of my own designs!

Yes, indeed!

Hey, that feels pretty darn great to say that it's "my design"!

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May I present,

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"SPIDERELLA"

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She's  ready to get "Wicked" and have "Fun"

(note the blood red lippy Spiderella is wearing),

it helps to enhance her pearly white fangs, don't you think?

Yes, Spiderella will be the bell of the ball,

especially since she ate her competition!

Mwahahahahah

Let's not forget that Halloween is all about 'Tricks or Treats"

and since I don't have any more tricks, that just leaves

TREATS of the GIVEAWAY kind, right?

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How about some Christmas FQs and 2 mini panels (great for  mug rugs!)!

Christmas is tiptoeing up on us!

The rules are easy peasy

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1) Leave a comment (please be sure I have a way to get in touch if you win)

I'm not running  all around  looking for you again! :O(

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2) Click my "follow" button for a second chance and let me know,

if you already are a follower...leave a comment letting me know! :O)

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That's It!

draw date will be OCTOBER 31 AT MIDNIGHT

I'll post the winner after I get up November 1st!

 I told you it was easy (I'm not a big fan of jumping through hoops myself),

now please go visit the other blogs listed above and have a spooktacular time.

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NewFOs for September

My  NEWFOs  for the month of September are a little sparse

but that's due to the fact that I need  to get some p.i.g.s

just plain finished!

However, this months offerings are

Archie and all his friends are destine for my hubby's lap,

now I'm not the only one working on this, in fact I'm more of the background noise,

my 8 year old is tackling this for his Dad's birthday, December 1st!

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I'm stitching up a few paper piece blocks to use in a couple of projects for the

upcoming month.

Designs for these 2 blocks can be found at

SONJA CALLAGHAN @ ARTISANIA

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Lastly, this quilt which I won the pattern during the Dots On Dots Blog Hop

from the ever so wonderful

CINDY @ QUILT DOODLE DESIGNS

This quilt design is called 

"LAUNDRY DAY"

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Sew there you have it, my September lineup for the

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I'm also putting feelers out for any interest in a

PIN CUSHION SWAP

(start date probably January 2013)

if you think you may want to join in just let me know.

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HAPPY STITCHING  :O)

Bordered Star...Accomplished

I'm beginning to "get" paper piecing.

I did have a bit of a time with this but once I slowed down and took my time,

it all came together!

This will be the start of a Christmas project so it's a good thing I started now!

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Have a great day stitching away.