Shirley Anne’s Heart

Powhatan Quilters Make Stars and THE MYSTERY BEGINS

Posted By drsao on January 5, 2009

The Powhatan Quilters had a great time today sewing in the library – and after we admired Catherine’s JACKET OF WONDERS and Karen’s beautiful nativity peiced quilt, Merci taught us to make paper-pieced stars! I took lots of pictures so that I can remind myself of all of the important steps! It was really a lot of fun. Take a peek at our sewing fun! And NOTE that Sheddy got her HALF-STAR block together and it is beautiful. I love paper piecing and if you use the right kind of paper and small stitches, the paper just peels right off. GREAT FUN! Be sure to Double Click on the pictures to see the ENTIRE THING – and for a SPECIAL mini-lesson on how to cut the right sized piece of fabric for your paper piecing, double click on Sheddy’s picture!

Besides learning to make paper-pieced stars, we decided to have a Paper Bag Round Robin – I am excited and a tiny bit scared – goodness I hope that I am good enough to do this! 🙂 We each start by making a 12″ center block and we put it into a brown grocery store paper bag – then the next person takes the bag and adds a border…..and we won’t see our “QUILT” until about 10 borders later. This is really exciting. I guess we really have PIGS now – Projects in Grocery Sacks! 🙂

Oh yes, we are doing a Powhatan Quilter’s Mystery Quilt too. I can’t wait to start!!! It is a GOOD THING!

While I am talking about good things – I LOVE Sheddy’s resolution for 2009. You know how many of us PROMISE OURSELVES that we won’t buy any new fabric this year – or that we will finish our unfinished quilts before starting new ones – or in my case, I will finish one each time that I start one……LISTEN TO SHEDDY’S. She is going to START ONE EACH DAY OF THE YEAR. Don’t you just LOVE IT!