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I’ve been wanting to try my hand at paper piecing for a while (as I mentioned earlier today), so tonight, I did.

Here’s an X string block. This block is made from leftovers from a honey bun of Hello Betty from my friend Adria (which, by the way, I’m so sick of this fabric! I made a quilt top, a few pillows and now this block from it!).  I’m going to send it in for FatQuarterShop’s Jolly Jabber Quilt Block Lottery. Just have to get to the post office at some point to mail it. 

Anyway… there was one place that didn’t turn out so hot. I’d also like to try this a few more times as practice before I make a real quilt…so maybe I’ll make little zipper bags from the resulting blocks instead. I need to get my edges to line up a lot better.

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I’m new to quilting, but for whatever reason, I’ve decided I must learn how to paper piece…now.

It started last weekend when I was looking for a pattern for this block in the Amy Butler quilt that Adria gave me with blocks from her lap quilt swap on craftster.org:

Sooo … after stalking my way through the entire lap quilt post, I found out that it was somebody’s original design. Boo.

So I started googling “X quilt blocks” and came across a post on crazy mom quilts about string quilts… and eventually a few tutorials. Apparently an easy way to paper piece is by using freezer paper — and I happen to have a huge roll of that in my craft supplies from last year’s t-shirt stenciling stint (seen here, here and here).

Now, I’m kind of obsessed.  So, as an excuse to experiment, I’ve decided to enter FatQuarterShop.com‘s Jolly Jabber Block Lottery with a few blocks I create using this method.  The only catch is I have to use fabric purchased from FQS…which should be fine since I’ve got some Hello Betty leftover from a Jelly Roll I bought and a Honey Bun that Adria had sent me.

Anyway, here are some gratuitous pictures of string quilts I collected from various places on the interwebs…which make me more excited about doing this!

I’ll be sure to post my progress… I might not get to it for a while — this is a busy week!

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