July is Kati's month for our Sew Beautiful Bee. She sent us glorious stacks of gray and yellow fabric, along with a request for (preferably) paper-pieced stars. My paper-piecing experience is very limited, but I decided to give it a go, and I'm really happy with the result!
I found some gorgeous Pioneer's Compass blocks made by Jen Johnston on Flickr. She linked to a downloadable pattern from eQuiltPatterns. I downloaded it (for the low low price of 99 cents!) and got to work. It was a challenge for sure, and my seam ripper was always close at hand. The site lists it as a difficulty of 1 (out of 5). I'm glad I didn't try a more difficult pattern!
It's definitely not perfect, but I'm quite proud of my effort! I cannot WAIT to see how Kati's quilt comes together.
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12 comments:
It looks gorgeous!!! Way to go!!
Katie, it's amazing!
That's really good!!! Love what you chose, and it looks like you did an amazing job with it.
It's very very pretty - and I think you did a wonderful job!! Way to go!!
It looks awesome! She is going to have such a beautiful quilt with all these great blocks everyone keeps posting!
It looks pretty darn perfect to me! Great job!!
wow! It's looking awesome!
Thanks so much for making this Katie! I love it! I can't believe they said it was a 1 out of 5 though. That looks like a hard block.
The compass block is absolutely wonderful!
Great block. You should be very proud of it.
Love your star, beautiful!!
Beautiful star.... It looks absolutely perfect :)
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