What have you been working on?

Remember these?

 The first two tri's grew to those shown below.  I was lost after the first two, above, but still optimistic.

 All sorts of sizes needed to be made so that a square could be make.....right!  After many hours of struggling with scrappy fabrics and sizes, I concede!  Free equilateral triangles for those who want them.....
For those of you who may wish to tackle this project look up Kitchen Table Quilting for the puzzled triangles tutorial

At Happy Scrappers last week I decided to try some paper piece projects I found browsing blogs.

Batiks were my scraps of choice.  The pattern is called Tequila Sunrise.  Piece One is the circle, sun, and an itty bitty piece.  The piece size gradually and slowly increase in size.  Playing with the sun and its contrast for the sunrise was fun.

The top left "sun" was supposed to be a moonless night!  Top right, a night with a full moon.  The lower left has a red sun with the lower right with an orange sun but not enough contrast perhaps, as in the moonless example.  Oh well, lesson learned for this exercise.  The tutorial for the 6" blocks and quilt is found at Piecebynumber.com

Fresh Lemons has a star paper pieced project entitled Solstice Stars Series.  Star of Mystery is the name of the block shown below.  The floral was my main fabric and added the pink, orange and teal as I went along.  While doing the outer pieces the pattern fell into place for me.  All in all, the choices are growing on me, but would never want too many of these blocks in a quilt. After completion I found I enjoyed the block, following the instructions for the corners for "squaring" will keep you from another seam ripper bonding experience.  This block and the rest of the series can be found at Freshlemons.com and this particular block at this address.

Stitch By Number also has this block.  With this block I neglected to check my printer as to print to scale.  Consequently, the size of this block is odd: 5 3/8!  It will have to be sent to the log cabin workshop to have an unfinished size of 6 1/2.  It's called Big Sister, Little Sister.  Use the same website if interested in this block.

Lastly, I started this project with fervor.  I needed space in my cabinet for the new fabrics purchased at AQS.  

It will measure 34" square when complete.    Both of these fabrics are left overs from other quilts.  Along the way I'll implement the QAYG method I've been using from Quilter's Edge.  Spirled and the accompanying tutorial on big batch HST's is found here.