Monday, May 3, 2021

CONFETTI

 I have spent most of last week planning and starting a new scrap quilt. After finishing my Drummer Boy I spied a new pattern on Stitched in Color called Confetti.  It is a bit addictive.  

It is primary paper pieced.  I have done paper piecing now and again.  It seems at least for me it has a learning curve for the first couple of hours when I have been away from this process.  

This is my first block.  It was accomplished after two complete failures after the first one or two pieces started.  I cut off the piece instead of the doing the seam allowance.  I finally got the hang of it and finished the original block.  I forgot to cut outside the finished lines 1/4 inch, and as this is two parts sewn together to make the block that didn't work.  The block was 7 1/2 inches instead of 81/2 inches.  Finally I got the hang of it and things began to come together.  One would think that after 30 years of this craft I could manage better than that.  
However, there is finally success.  Only 60 more blocks to go.  I have enjoyed deciding what fabric to put in each block.  There are bits and pieces all over the room.  We are talking very small scraps.  Some as small as 1 1/2 square up to no bigger than 3 1/2 inches long or square.  That little itty bitty blue square one is 1 inch finished.  

While digging around in my closet for scraps I found this paper pieced pattern.  For a lark I tried it out as well.  I'm two down for the count, time to read the book and try to figure out what is going wrong.  That angle is giving me fits.  I just can't seem to get it right.

Some of you might remember Houdini my daughters way ward  chicken.  She is an escape artist and is in and out of her fenced in chicken yard while all the other hens stay put.  My daughter kept watching her in and out of their burn pile and decided to find out what she was up to.  

Seems she has been laying all her eggs in this nice little nest she has made for herself.  While all her chicken family politely lay their eggs in their nice cozy coop boxes, where my daughter collects them for the family's use and all the neighbor too.  Houdini has gone renegade, of course they had to be tossed and my daughter surly doesn't need any more chickens hatched either.  Fact is she wasn't sitting on them either, she is much too busy for that sort of nonsense.

  
  


  


 



21 comments:

  1. Hi,
    I love the Confetti quilt...so pretty. The flower pots
    are really cute. We used to have a chicken that would
    co that too. Have a great day!

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  2. OH My Goodness!!!
    I saw the same pattern and considered it, but decided to pass...
    yours looks grand!
    love the flower pots too!!

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  3. Love the Confetti quilt. It looks like so much fun to work on. And super cute flower pots. Have a great week.

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  4. Sounds like that chicken needs a pair of leg irons or a leash or something! LOL Goofy bird..and all those perfectly good eggs gone to waste.

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  5. I love the confetti. That's beautiful.

    Oh the chicken is most clever. She's got her own ideas about her eggs. Adorable.

    Thank you for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday. ♥

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  6. I love the tone of your story about Houdini! You gave me a morning chuckle! That confetti quilt is so cheerful! It seems to say, "Let's party!" :)

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  7. Such cute quilt projects! Sorry to hear that you were having trouble with the paper piecing.

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  8. I always enjoy reading about your daughters critters, such fun.

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  9. That is a fabulous design, I can see how it can become addictive :)

    It's great to see your post at 'My Corner of the World' this week!

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  10. I love the accuracy of paper piecing. It does take a little refresher time to redevelop a comfort level with it. I don't think well in mirror image. It was worth pursuing. I love the flower pots.

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  11. The Confetti quilt is wonderful, and I love your background fabric - so perfect for the "theme" of the quilt! I always have to relearn the techniques when I get back to paper-piecing, too. Sounds like Houdini has a mind of her own!

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  12. The chicken has the right name. It looks like a mosaic with all the pieces of fabric. Beautiful projects, especially the flower pots.

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  13. Your confetti blocks are lovely, and I'm sure you will love making the 60 next! Cute Houdini ;)

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  14. Love the Confetti blocks but don't have the patience for it.

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  15. You have the funniest animal stories and Houdini is right up there. Love the confetti quilt and the background fabric you used is perfect.

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  16. Oh Confetti looks wonderful - and those post - too cute!
    houndini is a stinker haha!

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  17. I’m doing a little paper piecing too this week, I had a couple of “oops”. It always feels backwards to me! It’s not my favorite technique, but the accuracy is great...if you do it right!!

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  18. What a neat pattern! And I am clueless on what angle you can't get on the 2nd one, because they look fine to me! Thanks for linking up with To-Do Tuesday, sorry I am late in reading last week's!

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  19. I love both quilts. Don't be hard on yourself, I fpp a lot and still sometimes cut my seam off, sew the wrong color>remove the patch>turn around and resew the same color only to do more unstitching.

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  20. Very fun projects in the works. I always have to read over my reference books on paper piecing any time I pick up an old or start a new project. It's not always right there in my brain. Hope you had a very productive week.

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