I am just finishing up my last (9th) of Rosette No. 4. I have been working on this for almost 2 years now. I last shared about my work here. After that post it went on hold for awhile. Then I discovered a video how Sue Daley uses a glue pen with her paper pieces instead of thread basting them and I had to give it a try. Watching her whip through basting those pieces I was like... Wait. What?! I don't know what rock I had been living under. How did I not know about this before now?
Through some more exploring I came upon this site by The DIY Addict. Her videos helped me figure out how to get my work to lay flatter when I used paper pieces. You can see in the photo above the one on the left was what a start of a rosette looked like before and the right one was how much flatter some of her tips helped me get them.
So once I got through all the new information I bought myself a glue pen. Then printed out some fresh new paper pieces. I use these in addition to my Millefiori Quilts book. Well worth the cost since you have the patterns ready to print forever and can even print them directly on fabric. Although I prefer printing on card stock and cutting them out myself.
Here are my rosettes up until now. Some of these I posted before but now they are all in one place.
You might notice that some of these are done with papers and some just stitched together. I went back and forth but now that I am armed with some new techniques I hands down choose the paper piecing.
Through some more exploring I came upon this site by The DIY Addict. Her videos helped me figure out how to get my work to lay flatter when I used paper pieces. You can see in the photo above the one on the left was what a start of a rosette looked like before and the right one was how much flatter some of her tips helped me get them.
So once I got through all the new information I bought myself a glue pen. Then printed out some fresh new paper pieces. I use these in addition to my Millefiori Quilts book. Well worth the cost since you have the patterns ready to print forever and can even print them directly on fabric. Although I prefer printing on card stock and cutting them out myself.
Here are my rosettes up until now. Some of these I posted before but now they are all in one place.
You might notice that some of these are done with papers and some just stitched together. I went back and forth but now that I am armed with some new techniques I hands down choose the paper piecing.
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