Category: Paper Piecing

This month is the penultimate month of the Zoo BOM from Quietplay.

There will nine animal blocks when we finish in September (next month!)

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I have been joining in with the Zoo BOM from Quietplay.

There will nine animal blocks when we finish in September.

This month was the koala.

He is very cute, although the eyes and nose were a bit fiddly.

Only two months and two animals to go!

I’m linking up with And Sew We Craft Together

I have been joining in with the Zoo BOM from Quietplay.

These are all the blocks we will have done when we finish.

This month was the blue macaw.

I’m really pleased with this one. Look at all my lines matching up! I’m getting better 🙂

Now there’s only the monkey, lion and koala to go!

I’m linking up with And Sew We Craft Together

Hurray, I completed my May goal! (I was #65 on the link up)

I have been joining in with the Zoo BOM from Quietplay, but had gotten behind, and my goal this month was to complete the last two blocks to catch up.

These are all the blocks we will have done when we finish.

I was missing the walrus and the giraffe.

First up I made my walrus. I think my paper piecing must be improving as the three sections of his head line up quite well.

Then I completed my giraffe at the weekend whilst watching Eurovision. I wasn’t too sure about the colours, but he looks pretty giraffey now he’s done! 

I wonder which animal we’ll be making next month?!

I’m linking up with And Sew We Craft Together

I’m taking part in the zoo animals paper piecing block of the month by Quiet Play.

This month’s block was a polar bear.

The same as I did for the penguin, I used blue for the background rather than the white I used for my flamingo. The grey of the body is more of what was left over from the Dalek cushion.

I have also learnt my lesson from the previous blocks when joining sections together. I have found that when joining the sections together, if you do this with a very small stitch straight away, as you use within the sections themselves, that if you make a mistake and the pieces aren’t exactly aligned it is almost impossible to separate them and try again without destroying the paper and losing the line you need to sew on. So this time I tried sewing with a longer tacking stitch to check everything was in the right place, before going over it again with smaller stitches. This seemed to work well and I think my finished block looks good 🙂

Three down, six to go!