Thursday, April 21, 2016

The Daisy Chain Quilt - An English Paper Piecing Project - Part 4

The Daisy Chain Quilt - English Paper Piecing | Red Pepper Quilts 2016

An update on my Daisy Chain Quilt today as was promised when eight out of the twelve rows were joined together. It has been just over a month since my last Daisy Chain Quilt progress report and during that four week period I did not touch this project for the first two weeks. I began to worry that I had lost my momentum with this project and had to push myself to pick it up again. Of course from the moment I threaded the needle again I haven't looked back. 

The Daisy Chain Quilt - English Paper Piecing | Red Pepper Quilts 2016
The Daisy Chain Quilt - English Paper Piecing | Red Pepper Quilts 2016
The Daisy Chain Quilt - English Paper Piecing | Red Pepper Quilts 2016

Eight out of the twelve vertical rows of Daisy Chain units are now joined together and I am happy to say it is starting to look like a quilt top. As the quilt top grows it is becoming increasing more difficult to handle and it is definitely not a pretty lap project. Nor it is portable! It takes up the whole couch with me buried under it. Mind you, I have sewn the quilt top together in sections: two rows at a time, that were then sewn together to become four rows, then the two sets of four rows were sewn together. So the discomfort of having to handle a large section of the quilt top with papers still in is short lived.

The Daisy Chain Quilt - English Paper Piecing | Red Pepper Quilts 2016

Most of the papers are still in although you may be able to tell from the photos that I have taken a few papers out (where you can see the seam allowances) because I can't wait to see what the quilt top will look/feel like without them. I have glue basted my papers for this project and I am happy to report that very few papers popped out unexpectedly whilst working on the project - I have had to glue baste two or three papers back in as they were near the edge that I was working on. Other than that all papers have reliably stayed in place despite all the handling and manipulation of the quilt top.

The Daisy Chain Quilt - English Paper Piecing | Red Pepper Quilts 2016
The Daisy Chain Quilt - English Paper Piecing | Red Pepper Quilts 2016
The Daisy Chain Quilt - English Paper Piecing | Red Pepper Quilts 2016

Below is a photo of what my project looks like right now (eight vertical rows). The piece measures approximately 42 inches x 75 inches. As you can see, even when all of the twelve rows are joined together I will still have quite some work to do to fill the gaps along the edges.

The Daisy Chain Quilt - English Paper Piecing | Red Pepper Quilts 2016

I have also come to realize that just because you spend a lot of time carefully arranging all units on a design wall, place those units in order into separate snap lock bags - one bag for each row - and number the bags, it does not mean that you will join the units for each row in the set order, nor join rows in sequential order. How does that even happen?!

The Daisy Chain Quilt - English Paper Piecing | Red Pepper Quilts 2016
The Daisy Chain Quilt - English Paper Piecing | Red Pepper Quilts 2016

The Daisy Chain Quilt ~ An English Paper Piecing Project
Fabrics: from Stash and 
Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton in White for the connecting diamond shape.

The Daisy Chain Quilt - English Paper Piecing | Red Pepper Quilts 2016

The next Daisy Chain Quilt update: when all twelve rows are joined together.

Thank you for stopping by,
Rita
The Daisy Chain Quilt - English Paper Piecing | Red Pepper Quilts 2016

RELEVANT LINKS:
Daisy Chain Quilt - Part 1
Daisy Chain Quilt - Part 2
Daisy Chain Quilt - Part 3
Daisy Chain Quilt - Part 5

Pin It!
Follow on Bloglovin
COPYRIGHT: Do not copy or use any content or photos from my blog without my written permission.

23 comments:

  1. I know I always say the quilt you are currently working on is my absolute favorite, but I really mean it!!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Matching all those points perfectly amazes me! Gorgeous!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Thank you very much. My OCD daughter and I arranged 100 blocks in a particular this-a-way and that-a-way with no similar colors together. We took photos and checked for errors. We did the rows first block on top with a safety pin in the upper left hand corner. It should have been perfect. But nooooooo. It was like a crazy person tossed them up in the air and sewed them together cross eyed. I cussed and did a little stomping. They are frogging much slower. This, my dear, is magical. I want to read every block. Congratulations.

    ReplyDelete
  4. I still love it! I am excited to see how you fill out the edges. Your precise points and fun fussy cuts are inspiring to my modest talents. :)

    ReplyDelete
  5. Rita your work is visually stunning always but this takes the proverbial cake! May I ask you a question please?? Is the entire quilt sewn by hand? The daisy sections put together by hand also before you connect them? I'm new to EPP but fascinated!! Thank you.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Simply beautiful, as usual. Your work is so inspiring. Will you keep this quilt?

    ReplyDelete
  7. Gorgeous.... And you've also become an amazing photographer!! Love it! ❤️❤️❤️

    ReplyDelete
  8. This is beautiful and reflects your inimitable style! I'm enjoying seeing this grow!

    ReplyDelete
  9. Apparently you never you stop! For our pleasure :) Tank you Rita!

    ReplyDelete
  10. Stunning as always Rita! I'm convinced there's nothing to be done about blocks rearranging themselves. I occasionally use the webbing method to put my quilts together and I've even had it happen then. The thing is, No one but you knows which are the rogue blocks!

    ReplyDelete
  11. Your quilts make me feel happy! Thanks for the joy!

    ReplyDelete
  12. Wow! what an amazing project! Love your detail of placing the prints.

    ReplyDelete
  13. Sweet Rita. I agree, these flowers are so cute, and happy. I love the arrangement.
    Thanks always for sharing your path of progress. This gives others incentive to get back to half finished things. This is really cute!

    ReplyDelete
  14. What a beauty this is turning out to be! Well, no surprise there! I think I have some of those papers buried in my EPP stash somewhere.....

    ReplyDelete
  15. Absolutely amazing!
    How I wish I was able to do something like that!
    R

    ReplyDelete
  16. Would you mind sharing where you purchased the paper piece patterns?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you for stopping by - the paper pieces were purchased online from Sew and Quilt in the UK. All the links are included in this blog post :-)

      Delete
  17. Would you mind sharing where you purchased the paper piece patterns?

    Thank you for your kind and quick response!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I purchased the papers here: http://www.sewandquilt.co.uk/product-category/english-paper-pieces/pentagons/ (these links are included in the blog post also).

      There is no pattern as such, there are no instructions.

      Rita

      Delete
  18. this is one of my favourite quilts - I must do one (eventually) !!! thanks so much for sharing your progress xx

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment! I really appreciate it.

Comments are published after review.

Feel free to ask questions and I will answer either here or by email, as is appropriate.