Adventures in Paper Piecing, What's on the Design Wall

Update: 1/3rd Sewn Together (and more)

Here is a follow up to my September 15th post ScrapHappy September 2026: Happy Dance Time!

I now have 1/3 of the quilt (33 blocks), that I’ve been working on for 10 years on and off, sewn together – yay!

Here is the section I recently put together:

And with the rest of the blocks up on the design wall:

It’s so funny how it “shrinks” when you sew the blocks together!

I decided to take on piecing the blocks together by breaking them up into a group of 9; and two groups of 12 (= 33). Then I sewed those three groups together.

Hopefully I will by the weekend be able to hand it into my longarm quilter (fingers crossed). I have a fantasy…depending on her turnaround time…that I can feature the quilted quilt for my October 15th monthly ScrapHappy post!


Postscript

Here is the “and more” part of this post – just some random additional info….

A follow up to the post What’s On The Design Carpet: First 20 Squares; I’ve been experimenting with the additional 3 yarn colors and once I finish all the sample blocks incorporating the new yarn colors I will do another post. For now, here is a photo of my “Granny Square Laboratory”!

A friend bought a new Rowenta Steam Station and gave me her old professional steam station iron! I was a little intimidated by it at first but now I really like it! It was very hand to press down the seams on the denim quilt I am working on.

I love stickers and I decided – what the heck, I have no plans to sell my Bernina – why don’t I just brighten it up with some stickers. So for the first time ever, I put fun stickers on a sewing machine!

The stickers add a little smile to my face while sewing!

8 thoughts on “Update: 1/3rd Sewn Together (and more)”

  1. Everybody loves stickers. I shower them on the kids at school. The older they get the more they love them! It is amazing how the quilt “shrinks” after seaming, but it makes perfect sense. You must have a good sense of size. I would be miscalculating all the time.

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