HQG Special Projects

SUE AND GAIL'S BATTLE OVER THE RIGHT WAY TO PAPER PIECE Paperless Paper Piecing or Foundation Paper piecing Sue's Blocks Gail's Blocks Tools: 1. Add a Quarter and/or add an eighth (both)  2. Stitch in the ditch Foot (Sue) 3. quilting ruler to cut your 1/4 seam allowance (Gail) 4. Paper scissors 5. 28mm rotary cutter or 45mm  (both) 6. Small cutting mat or a rotary mat. (both) 7. Glue stick washable (Gail) 8. Glue pen washable (Sue) 9. Seam Ripper - NECESSARY (Gail) A lot easier for Sue! 10. Iron or Seam Roller Paper 1. Freezer Paper - iron on to printer paper and print, or trace using a light box or your window  (Gail) 2. Cheapest printer paper you can find (Sue) Thread 1. Deco Bob (Sue) 2. Invisifil (Gail) Stitch Length 1. - 1.5mm  (Gail) (that's pretty tiny for my stitch ripper) 2. - 2.4mm (Sue) Sewing 1. Stitching on the lines (Gail)  (yes! straight lines to follow) 2. Folding the lines and sewing beside them (Sue) Ironing 1. Mini Iron, then steam after it's all

This challenge is all about colour.  Last month we traded labels etc and here are the rules. 1. YOU MUST use the colours on the label you picked. 2. YOU CAN add one other colour that is not on the label if you choose to. 3. IF YOU HATE your label or didn't pick a label you may find your own label and use it. Each month from now until September I will do a special blog post for this special project.  I will add to this post each month so you may need to search for it and I will try and update it at the first of each month (I'm late this month)  before the next months post so there is no confusion.  These blogs will show my progress with the quilt (or whatever) I am making for the challenge.   Hopefully this will encourage you to get busy on your project. March  I want to talk about colour. There are so many ways you can choose your fabric for this project. I plan to use SHADES of the colours, blue, purple, black and white... Here's my label... The first step for me was to se