Sweet River Studios

I finished piecing together the individual pieces and started putting a few together to make bigger pieces. Now, to sew those together to make 1/8th of the center medallion. Just remember to make sure your registration points all line up or at least get pretty close. This will keep all your pieces lined up as you put the top together and believe me, you will need it. This quilt top is probably the hardest one I've had to sew. Although, I didn't enjoy sewing the Y seams (3 sections meeting together) in the Amazon Star quilt either. This one is just awkward. Here's a picture of all 8 of my quilt pieces. Think large crescent shape about 3' long. I laid them out on my bed to see how it would look. Below is some more pictures of them spread out but not sewn together. After the medallion center part is put together, I'll add the applique pieces then the 8 appliqued baskets to the outside. I've also ordered some metallic thread. I've never worked with...

When I first started learning how to sew, I decided to learn paper piecing. Paper piecing is very easy to learn. It's learning how to sew pieces of fabric together in a certain order and you sew them together by sewing on lines printed on the paper. Yes, you sew on a line so everything is straight and everything lines up fairly easily. My first paper piecing pattern, was the 4th of July quilt pattern by Judy Niemeyer from Quiltworx . The hardest part is literally getting all the fabric cut and taking off the paper. But I learned a lot about 1/4" seams, trimming, sewing and piecing all the parts together. I thought the instructions for the pattern was really well done and was easy for a non-sewer to follow. After the 4th of July quilt and my sewing skills improved, I got another pattern called Amazon Star. This was a very, very big quilt. I think it was 98x98" and I really didn't like handling something that big. That one taught me that I don't like Y seams. I go...