Sewing with paper —

I had a fun Friday Night with Friends this month, spending the evening sewing at The Country Yard with a lovely group of ladies.

We had pads of printed papers which are designed to go with either Layer Cakes or Charm Squares. Once you've sewn on the dotted lines, you cut along the solid lines, ending up with a tidy pile of Half Square Triangles.

I was using a Layer Cake and each sheet of my pad (and 2 x 10" fabric squares) yielded two large HSTs and 10 small ones.

There are block and layout suggestions given. This is what I have started putting together —

I didn't do all of this on Friday night as I had previously started the project so it could be a class sample. I spent my evening sewing the rest of my paper units.

Kerryn chose a charm pack so used a completely different set of papers, and a different layout.

Pretty isn't it?

I've read about Triangle papers (and so on) before and thought they were a bit of a have - dare I say it - but am very impressed with how quick and hassle free it has been to make all these half square triangles! Although I still have to sew them all together, I do have a lot of very accurate little units to start with :-)

Thank you to Cheryll for hosting Friday Night with Friends. If you want to have a peek at how others spent their Friday night you can visit her blog *here*.

I know the sensible thing would have been for me to continue on with this over the weekend but Saturday afternoon saw me pulling out a completely different project. I'd started this during the week and really wanted to make some progress. I had already sewn the tricky eye sections so a few hours' work saw it done.

I found this Eeyore pattern on Fandom Stitches. There are a lot of this type of design there - all foundation paper pieced like this one. I enlarged mine slightly so it's finished at about 13" rather than 10". I'm please I did, there are some quite small pieces in there! The pattern may look like it's not for the faint hearted but it went together quite nicely...you just have to be patient with these sorts of things and you get there!

I've also put my thinking cap to come up with a One Monthly Goal project for April and have decided that it will be to make some progress on quilting my Friday's Garden quilt. This was a fun QAL from 2016! High time it was finished. I see, after doing a blog search, that it was a June OMG project last year as well... I don't think I did anything on it then so perhaps I can do better this time?!

I think I got stalled on quilting ideas so I am hoping that looking at it with fresh eyes will help! Thank you to Patty for hosting OMG and giving lots of us that extra push to complete or work on something. You can visit the link-up on her blog *here*.
I hope you're all enjoying the weekend. We're having another lovely autumn day so I'm heading outside for a bit of gardening once I push the publish button. After lunch I plan on an afternoon here in my Palace, sewing again.

'till next time,

Happy stitches,