WIPs With Friends

Happy New Year to all my friends out in blogland! 

 I am looking forward to a new year and new challenges.  How about you? 

 I am planning on starting the Ocean Waves QAL very soon.  

I hope to talk about supplies and such in my next post.  

For today though we will be concentrating on our WIPs.

Over the holiday break I finally got brave enough to tackle the Ring of Coffins block.  

It is the last block for the Hallowedding quilt.  

It involves EPP, which I have not really done much of.  

I understand the concept but have not jumped on the craze yet.  

It also involves some paper piecing which I really do enjoy.  

I got all my coffins paper pieced and here are a few of my favorites.

I used mostly fabric from the Ghastlies line for the residents of the coffins. 

 I love Sebastian, which you would probably already know since he is their cat.

I thought this cute little owl needed to be in the quilt.  I love that he looks like he is sitting in a tree.

This fabric was sent to my by my friend Jennifer and I was so pleased to be able to use it in the quilt.

I had some help while doing the paper piecing, LOL.

 I love that she wants to be near to me but this makes me so nervous.

I was taking a break and when I cam back this was waiting for me.  I, of course, had to relocate her.

I got my ring all sewn together and it was awesome! 

 I didn't use the whip stitch as I don't like that no matter how small my stitches are they show. 

 Instead I used the ladder stitch.  

MUCH happier with this one.  

Only one small (or maybe I should say BIG )problem with this now.  

The block was supposed to be 15" x 15".  Mine will be 21" x 21".  

WAHHHHH, how did this happen? 

 I followed the directions and decreased the size and still it was wrong.  

I even emailed the person that put the pattern out there and asked the info and it is still wrong!  

I wish when someone uses a pattern and they change the size from the original that they either publish the correct one or 

at least put a one inch line and tell the new length of that line so you can get it right!  

GAH!!!  (deep breath over here,)

 I WILL make this work!

So once I recovered from my mistake and realized what I had done, 

I had to choose a different background.  

The original was only half a yard and now would not be large enough.  

I had two contenders for the final ring.

This first one has my favorite CATS!

I really like the stripe too, it is such an unexpected choice.

In the end, I asked the person that the quilt is going to to choose, and she chose the cats.

Here it is all hand appliqued onto the background.  

I still need to trim it to the correct size.  

Overall I am pretty happy with how it turned out.  

The paper piecing took me over 10 hours!!!  Good thing I love her so much!!

This is not the best photo, but you can see all the blocks up on my design wall. 

 I have not put in the filler blocks yet.  

Good thing too since now I need to move some things around and will likely need to make a few more blocks to accommodate this new block!  

I have a few blocks that need to be put up too but they are all finished. 

(hmmm, I guess I need to find those!)

So that takes care of me.  What are you up to?

~XOP~

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