The pattern is a complete package & comes with:
- Really great detailed instructions
- Cutting templates which are so helpful in making sure your pieces are big enough to sew, flip, and trim
- Coloring pages that help with fabric placement - I almost always take a few minutes when starting a new paper piecing pattern to at least a rough-in the colors so that I can double check the layout as I go.
The colors you'll need include:
- Three shades of blue (I'm hoping for transparency effect in the points where they overlap)
- a light blue for the inside diamond
- a medium blue for where the points overlap
- a dark blue for the outer, partial diamonds
- At least two teals in slightly differing shades so there's some contrast when they're assembled
- Random low volume white scraps (I love texty prints :)
- Random low volume black scraps
A note on fabric choices: I don't mind solids, but they're not my favorite, I really love a tone-on-tone like shown in my sample below; pretty much all of the fabrics chosen in my first round of blocks worked really well :)
Here's my sample block:
Here's a tile I did with that first block, just to see the effect of multiple blocks together:
Yours will be added to the blocks I received from another bee I was with last year (love them all!). I'm aiming for enough for my queen size bed so I have several more to collect (don't mind the one in the lower-right corner, it just needs to be rotated :)
The block went together really well, her patterns always do. I will say I was really glad to have basted the last seam (the long diagonal). I pulled it out and pinned some of the points - even though it's on a paper foundation, it was a little touchy. A pin or two, or some clips, will make it much more stable and the points should come together just fine.
Let me know any questions!
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