EPP Addiction, March part 2

 

Becky Wilson and Sandy Warren are working on Faith, Hope, and Love from Sue Daley.  Becky has most of her pieces done, and Sandy surprised us with the center done on hers.  Beautiful!

 

 

Before our March meeting, we asked new member Carol Elson if she needed help getting going after the Show and Tell.  Well, it turns out she doesn't!  Carol has been busy at work making our needle cases, and she's completed several!

 

Donna Spain is working on the 1930s quilt Chelsea from Sue Daley.  She's been enjoying seeing ours in progress.  Marilyn Cullen is working on hexies and making good progress on them.

 

Mary Moutschka is showing off part of the Lucy Boston block, but she's finished a lot more of them. Linda Snoke is making a larger quilt or table topper.  IT's alsays so fun to see a lot of progress made!

 

We laid out some works in progress so everyone could see the different 1/8" makes.  These are both starts of the center star from Stars in the Garden by Yellow Creek.  The smaller one is made from 1/8" hexies, and the larger one is made from 1/2" hexies.

Jo Ann Gates is working on hexies in beautiful Spring colors.  She also brought us a wool needlecase she had made so we can see how the chain stitch holds it all together.

 

As promised, here is LuAnn Krug's Dear Jane quilt.  Fantastic!

A new year of EPP

The January meeting of English paper piecing addiction hardly got off the ground because of icy weather and flooding in the quilt shop. For February people were really raring to go. It was an excited crowd and they were lots and lots of show and tells. Marlene Sowatzke brought two projects: the first one is tiny nine patches above, not English paper pieced.  Below, Marlene is showing her Just Takes Two quilt by Sue Daley.   It's getting closer to completion every month.

Andrea Gerdt is working on various Hexie projects using Christmas fabrics and fussy cuts.

Donna Spain has been working on Sue Daley's Chelsea quilt in beautiful 1930s fabrics and her Dresdens are about done. Jerry Pitts is fussy cutting a project and it's still a work in progress.

Bonnie Harlow has fallen in love with Stars in the Garden from our friends at Yellow Creek Designs.  She has everything really organized in her box and can work on it at a moments notice

Donna Nigh has completed her king size bed runner from Vicky Bellino's book English Paper Piecing.  She wondered sometimes if she would get it done but it was certainly worth the effort.

Becky Wilson and Sandy Warren are both working on the same project from Sue Daley, called Faith, Hope, and Love. Becky's is mostly bagged and ready to be sewn together but Sandy has made a lot of progress on her quilt.

Barbara Rettig enjoys English paper piecing, but her first love is wool embroidery.  She often shows us her wool projects, but she is also working on It Takes Two from Sue Daley, and she showed us the colors that she's using.

New year of EPP, part 2

Connie Wass watches as Lynette Reynolds shows her English paper pieced star and hexies.  This is the center of the cover quilt from Handfuls of Scraps but Edyta Sitar. The original quilt was done was seven eighths inch hexagons, but Lynette use three eighths for the miniature look she loves so much.

Sharon Howell is working on her Lucy Boston quilt. She has fussy cut the honeycombs to make beautiful blocks.  Carol Federspill has joined our Just like a Jigsaw Club by Sue Daley and is working on the blocks every month.  She's doing a good job of keeping up!

LuAnn Krug brought her quilt back from Di Ford so the new members could see it.  It features hexagons and diamonds. She also has a whole bag full of her diamond stars from Fussy Cut Fridays!

LuAnn and Michele Hellmann are both working on the Millifiori Quilt Along on Facebook, based on the book, The New Hexagon by Katja Marek. There's a picture of Linda and Teri with Katja at Quilt Market last fall.

Michele is super organized and has all her Fussy Cut Friday stars in a notebook. She is also very prolific as she has gotten the quilt below pieced with English paper piecing and quilted.  Here's her version of her millefiori quilt along so far.

Linda and Teri have been working very hard to get their Chelsea quilt from Sue Daley completed. All they have to do now is scallop the border with bias binding and add the yo-yos to the centers of the Dresdens.  Linda also showed her Pies and Tarts quilt from Sue Daley.  It's growing!

EPP Addiction, part 3

Chris Hurley is another new member of our English Paper Piecing Addiction club, but she had lots to show us!  She found this hexie quilt in a magazine and set out to duplicate it, having a lot of fun with fabric along the way.  She has been making up kits for a group to which she belongs, so they can get productive and get these Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks made up.  Then she shared an antique quilt top with us so we could study the fabrics.  Linda was so inspired that she pulled out the Back Door's antique GFG quilt for everyone to admire.  Even though ragged and worn, these special quilts still pack a wow factor.

Mary Ann has a favorite shirt with worn elbows that she will rejuvenate with 1/2" hexies in denim friendly colors.  It will end up being her official EPP shirt, I bet!

Donna is patiently working on her Just Judy quilt.  Little by little she is making headway.  EPP is a perfect handwork technique for those times that you find yourself waiting around.  Why not turn that time into productive sewing?  It doesn't matter how long the project takes!

Marlene has been perfecting her fussy cutting.  Notice the fantastic use of stripes in her Lucy Boston blocks.  If you're not familiar with the block, all the pieces are exactly the same, but a skillful use of stripes and other prints can make the block look infinitely variable and complicated.

We had a special surprise announcement during this meeting.  Australian quilter Sue Daley will join us for a class in September!  Prices and projects will be on our web site soon, or you can e-mail for the information (teribackdoor@indy.rr.com), but we wanted our fellow EPP Addicts to be the first to know!

EPP Addiction, part 2

There were many more show and tells at our English Paper Piecing Addicition Club meeting.  Carol Decker was just in time for Valentine's Day with her cheerful red and white Dresden Heart.  She's also making the Lucy Boston block bigger using 1-1/2" honeycombs instead of the usual 1".  She might stop at the traditional size, or she might use her scraps and keep adding rounds of honeycombs.  The fun is in the journey!

Rosie has been working on a special pentaring project.  She's making the Baby Pentarings from Vicki Bellino's English Paper Piecing book, using Moda Japanese fabric and sashiko that's she designed to go into the center.  It's a little hard to see, but she arranged the elements on tissue paper until she was pleased with the design, then she's stitching through the tissue with a big stitch, which will have the look of sashiko when it's done.  Can't wait to see it done!

Sue has a beautiful Lucy Boston block to show off, made from the same fabric as Rosie's Pentarings!

Margot (left) is one of our new members, enjoying the show and tell, and getting her pieces ready to make a Dresden Heart.