Pass the Visine! Here's my new Eye Bowl!
It's entirely English Paper Pieced. Before embellishment, it looked like this:
Afterwards, along with the beads and buttons on top, I added danglies below.
Lower.
The back:
Pass the Visine! Here's my new Eye Bowl!
Here's my new thing! It's English Paper Pieced canopied basket...
....which can keep the dust off your giant, color-coordinated thread cone...
It is not an exaggeration to say that English Paper Piecing (EPP) is one of the most addictive quilt-related activities I've ever undertaken. It wasn't enough for me to do EPP with fabric, first to make quilts, and then to stitch polyhedra.
But then, a couple of years ago, after my DH caved to supermarket displays (always blame the DH!) and bought a bag of Lindt Truffles (no financial affiliation!) I found myself fascinated by the wrappers. One thing led to another...at parties, I started following people around to collect their wrappers....and here are tutorials for ...