As you may know if you follow my personal blog I have been practising with foundation piecing and although a I still find it confusing and a challenge I am pleased with how this star turned out for Sylvia, who requested any block in purple pink green and white. I think I have covered all of those colours as the green butterfly print has some pink in it too. I was a little disappointed as the finished block ended up 1 inch smaller than we make them, so I put a frame around it in the white. So to the paper piecer's out there is this common that a pattern may end up smaller?
I will pop this in the post this week, I hope Sylvia likes it.
5 comments:
Oh Sue, that is fabulous! I love the cute butterfly fabric. I am working on yours this week!
Paper piecing tends to shrink things a bit. try to sew a little outside the marked lines. Sometimes it's the foundation paper that doesn't help.I've used your solution quite sometimes myself.
It's beautiful Sue. I must learn to foundation piece too. You did a great job.
a great outcome for a new technique! well done
xx
your block is lovely and you are clever to have thought to put the border on it ... i would not have thought of that ... haha ...
i have not had the block size change at all .. but i sew onto a fabric block as well as the paper ... and then when finished and i pull the paper off ... i still have a nice solid backing on the block ... it does not move and i can trim the seams back fairly closely too ...
a question ... when you printed it out ... did the pattern allow for seams ?? .. i am guessing it would .. and when printing .. did you set your printer to 'page scaling" none ... so that it would print to 100% right size ... or was maybe the printer on "fit to printable area" ... these are a couple of reasons as to why it may not be the right size ... but after that .. i am out of ideas ..
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