Paper piecing

Put the wrong side of the fabric on the wrong side of the paper, making sure all of the area you are sewing is covered by both pieces of fabric.  It's better to have more than less fabric here, you can always trim away.

From the right side of the paper, put one or two pins along the line where you'll be sewing.

Flip your project back to see the right sides of the fabric.

Flip over the blue piece here, along the line that you've pinned.

Place another pin to keep this in place and then carefully remove the pins on the right side, and releasing the folded fabric to make it flat, adding more pins if needed.

Turn over and sew on the side, securing the stitches if it's in the middle of the block, back stitch if it's on an edge.

Trim away the extra fabric by folding the paper away to a 1/4 inch seam.

After you trim away the excess, fold the fabric back so that the right sides are showing and then press the seam to one side (to the darker fabric is preferred)

 

Another view.  Make sure your fabric covers the intended space, hold up to the light to check if needed.

Here's the pin along the line that I'm sewing.  All the right sides are facing here.

Folding along that sewing line.

Before releasing the seam 

After releasing the seam / folded part.  Take out the pin from the right side of the paper to release the folded bit again.

Continue with the other pieces for the unit you're working on.

Trim away the excess, I think I shouldn't have cut the paper exactly to size instead of a rough cut.  

How it will look when all the units are done from the right side of the paper

And what it looks like from the right side of the fabric.

Baby girl quilt

 Good ole X es and Crosses.    I used a new to me product, a water soluble printable stabilizer.   I didn't want to free hand draw 20 flowers with washable marker.  Life saver!

A niece quilt

My brain wanted to remind me of all the baby quilts I’ve made.   This is one i haven’t posted before. Flying geese units rotated on edge. All stash (well not the back).  

 

Really behind

 I’ve got two projects running right now.  I ran out of supplies so I’ve moved to another.  This one is for me and probably will be used as fabric art as opposed to an actual quilt.  

Finished gift

I got it put in the frame a few days before we left for our trip.   I'm very happy with the way it turned out.   I also think I'm done with French knots for a while.  

Auction quilt, done

I love grabbing quilts from the dryer after their first wash.  This time was not a let down.   

And a wedding gift

Another WIP.  A wedding gift for my husband's cousin.  It might get done on the plane ride to the wedding.  *Fingers crossed*  

Another idea from Pinterest.  I'm going to add their initials to the middle of the tree and depending on how much time I've got left, I might add some texture to the tree branches and trunk.  It'll go inside an 11 X 7 picture frame.  

The red circle I drew is a new quilting find.  It's a Pilot erasable gel pen.  The marks go away with a warm iron, great for quilters.  It does retain a white line after you use a warm iron and after you put it in the cold (I experimented at home with scraps in the freezer) but once you wash it, the white ghost mark doesn't come back.  I'm not going to wash this project but possibly just wet and blot the areas where I added the pen marks just to be safe.