Paper Posies – 2005

My quilt guild, Lake Norman Quilters, was fortunate enough to have Carol Doak come and do a program and class.  Carol Doak is well known for her paper piecing.  At the time, I was not a big fan of paper piecing, but, it was a big event so I signed up for the class.

Was I ever glad I did.  After the class was over, I loved paper piecing.  For me, it took a little bit of time to adjust my brain to a different way of piecing, but the effects are striking and perfect and easy.  And besides, the class was a lot of fun.

This quilt is entirely paper or foundation pieced, of course.  It’s a scrappy quilt in that the greens and reds are all different but of a similar value.  The background is a cream with an ivy vining on it.  I wasn’t sure how I was going to border the quilt but found the perfect stripe fabric at a local quilt shop.  Then I used a fourth of each large block for the corners.

This quilt is machine quilted.  I did a stipple meander in the background, squiggly loops in the gold and a curvy line on the inside edge of the red flowers.

I quilted leaf veins on the green in red thread because I had used red thread on the flowers (that was a little outside my comfort zone) and was tickled with the outcome.

This quilt won a first place ribbon in its category at the 2007 Lake Norman Quilters show.