Get out your hammer, pick up the shovel. We’re going to build houses and plant trees. If you’ve never done paper piecing, I’ve designed some very simple pieces. And you’ll find that it’s a lot of fun. You get to have all kinds of blocks and corners without having to do Y seams.

This month I’ve designed two blocks for you to work on. And they would look great for our soldiers and for the kids, depending on the fabric. And for this project you can use the size blocks that I’m including or you can enlarge or shrink the pattern. We’re going to build a village with different size homes and trees and we will add different landscape fabric to build the squares to a common size.

If you’ve never paper-pieced and plan to attend our September 19 quilt day, I will be there to help you through the process. You can also take a look at this video

The first short video will give some basic instructions. She’s gone further with the 2^{nd video showing how to make dimensions paper piecing. In the demo she talks about Xeroxing the pattern. Generally I will either transfer the pattern onto tissue paper, or I will print the pattern on the lightest paper I can find. Remember, we have to remove all the paper without ripping stitches. So if you don’t want to transfer the pattern onto tissue paper, try and use tracing paper or some other light paper. I will bring some with me on the 19th.}

Make as many houses and trees as you like and we’ll have fun building some quilts. You can remove any paper that is on the inside, but it’s best to leave the paper on the outside of the block until we put the blocks together. We’re not worrying about bias so you need the support until the blocks have been combined.

Here’s some tips:

Have fun!

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