Today is just one of those days where you’ll have to bear with my shoddy iphone photography. This is my latest quilty endeavor, and I want to share.
The blocks are for Ms. FreckledBeauties of the Live Piecefully Quilting Bee, and man, they were fun to make! I used the oft-shared instructions over at Film in the Fridge, an, truly, there was nothing to it.
I know everyone’s got her own preferences, but I do feel obliged to say that my favorite base for paper piecing is by far the tracing paper that comes in a tablet at the art store. My tablets are 9×12″, so the sheets are large enough to accommodate most of the piecing I do, and they’re very transparent, cheap, and tear perfectly.
I also want to mention that, if you think you like the look of string piecing based on photos you’ve seen around the internets, you don’t know the half. In person, the colors and patterns just become so breathtaking when cut down to thin strips and seamed with other fabrics.
Do yourself a favor: try out the tutorial and make yourself a throw pillow or something. Then, bask in the stringy glory. It really is fabric bliss.