http://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/g/perspica/tags/Paper+Piecing/default.aspxTags: Paper PiecingenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Debug Build: 31106.3070)http://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/p/540739.aspxThu, 23 May 2013 10:47:10 GMT722ae0af-0843-4f69-80d5-ea157d187469:540739perspica3<p>The cool color scraps were too much to store...so I made them go away along with a bit of my own life blues. I adore strings and paper piecing. This took two weekends from first square to quilted and bound. &nbsp;My $ job didn&#39;t get in the way, either. &nbsp;</p>http://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/p/406100.aspxFri, 03 Aug 2012 00:31:04 GMT722ae0af-0843-4f69-80d5-ea157d187469:406100perspica5<p>Some that saw this said it looked like Aluminium Foil, so that is as good a name as any.&nbsp;</p> <p>I was inspired to create this from things shared from: Film In The Fridge! &nbsp;Love her work. &nbsp;http://www.filminthefridge.com/</p> <p>But the real inspiration was this was my first &#39;pieced on paper&quot; quilt since my first one - at age 8. &nbsp;I made that one with my grandmother. &nbsp;It was 20 years before I made my second quilt. &nbsp;I don&#39;t think she would like this quilt design very much, but she was very much with me in spirit as I made it. &nbsp;I do think she would like that I did what I wanted to, based on her instruction. &nbsp;So many memories came back to that summer in about 1972...</p> <p>I learned much about shading, shadows, and strip size. &nbsp;I really hate how my idea to use different sized strings made a mess of some of my points. &nbsp;And my goodness, did I learn I need to do better at setting that first seam on the strip.&nbsp;</p> <p>It was very much fun cutting up my phone book for the backing paper - I found I could cut an 8 inch width, so I made 8 inch squares from my old phone book. &nbsp;</p>