Lyn's Small Town Winter

I am posting this for her as she doesn't do blogger.  Lyn has completed and added rules 8, 9 & 10. 

Rule 8 is the block with the yellow house, brown tree, and rock piller fence posts placed in the lower right.

Rule 9 features more of the lake, the mountain behind it, pine trees, and embroidery work so show more backgrouond hills.  For the 3-D portion of the rule she added black colored birds flying above the pine tree on the right.

On rule 10 she tried to do the disappearing 9 patch in the sky and then changed it because it looked too boxy for clouds and sky.  She did the folded inserts on her clouds.  They are difficult to tell that they are folded inserts because she did such a fine job of stitching down the fold, but they are the long skinny clouds.  Don't they look great and oh so clever?

Scarecrow 7 & 8

 I have finished rules 7 & 8 and also have sewn them to the previous sections.  I have pretty good starts on 9 & 10 so , hopefully will have them ready in the near future.   The scarecrow in rule 8 is paper pieced.  I had the fabric with the scene of sky and house so I wanted to use it as bg.  I continued the tree from the previous block that was on the left.  Lots of summer sunshine!  The tree trunk is pieced with the bg fabric and the branch is applique.  Bird is fussy cut.  The illusion block is kinda big and sits out in the middle of nowhere.  lol.

Deana's Barn Rule 8

Here is a close up of rule #8 attached to rule #7.  It is hard to see where I seemed them together. 

I paper pieced the warn out, thread bear barn for the paper piecing technique.  I added yellow and a flower -- the yellow field and another sunflower.

Here is a photo of everything that is finished up to this point.  This is the first I've shown the fence, birdhouse, and trees completed in rule 6.  As a reminder, rule 6 asked for free hand curved piecing and a house.  I built a birdhouse and curved pieced the ground.

Below is what I hope the fence/birdhouse section will look like when it is finished.  I want to add all the flowers in a way similar to the photo below.

Scarecrow, part of rule 8

This is the paper pieced part of rule 8.  It is a 6" block so I will be adding more things around it.  Maybe I will get caught up soon!

Caught up finally!

Well, I am finally all caught up and ready to start on rule #9. I had to re-think my quilt plans so that took me the most time. I think I'm now on track again with where I plan to go with it. I think my most challenging was the curved piecing. As you can see my river isn't very curvey.

Steph's rule number 8. Just barely on time!

 The camp that I am currently working at, closes for the week of the fourth, so I was able to get my block done, on time!  I must admit I am not a big fan of paper piecing.  I find it a royal pain.  Maybe it was the pattern I chose...  Anyhow, here is the block!

Again, it is sideways.  The border fabric is really, really bright, but it was the only yellow that did not involve dinosaurs or fish in mom's cupboard of scraps.  So, I will have to put it elsewhere in the future to make it less striking.  Here is a close up on those trees...

and the whole thing...

I am not a huge fan of how it turned out.  Plus, I discovered that somehow, when I squared off the last block, I made it almost an inch too skinny, so I will have to put something on that side to make the quilt up to size.

Granny Annie's Garden (Wallhanging), Rule 8

I love paperpiecing so this was a fun rule. I need to admit I cheated just a little - this was a UFO sitting in my closet - I already had the tulip made. But it has a yellow daffodil & was so fun to make. Will be great on my wall come next Spring or maybe as a tablerunner. Can't wait to see what rule 9 brings.

Moira's Rule 8

Woohoo, blogger finally let me upload a pic for my post....past two days it has been cranky and wouldn't let me do it. And it even put my picture in right side up for a change instead of sideways.

At any rate, while I didn't use yellow in my block - I did design the pp'ing patterns for the three tulips that I made for this rule. I put the combined sections for rule 7 and 8 on the right side of the quilt top in order to balance it out. I love how it is turning out so far! But now I don't know who will eventually get it because i've finished off all the baby quilts that I needed to make for gifts this summer. Eventually tho it will be a gift. =)

Dorine's Rule #8

The day is finally here! Woohoo! Here is my paper pieced eagle. Note the yellow beak. The bottom of the block actually has two small eagles flying around in the background and seemed the perfect backdrop for an eagle. The colors don't blend as well with the top part as I would like, but I think it blends in with the rest of the quilt. I had been waiting and waiting for the perfect rule and dimensions for this pattern. So glad to get to use it at last!
And here is the whole quilt. It is getting big!
Ann, I still can't get comments to work on your posts, so I'm commenting here. I love your cow! It is adorable! And I think you spoke correctly when you said "picture." Your quilt is a beautiful picture--a work of art.

Carrie's Scrappy Anything Rule #8

And here is my Rule #8 block:

The three flower blocks are paper pieced, and picking flower patterns met the rule criteria. I also added yellow in the flowers and the skinny border. It brighten up everything and tied in well to the rest of my quilt top.

Here is Rule #8 attached to Rule #7:

Sorry, really hard to get the right light on the pictures now that the pieces are getting so big.

And finally all of the rules sewn together:

Feels awesome to be all caught up - woo hoo!!!!

~Carrie



Ann's Autumn Country Rule 8

And so Rule 8 is complete. The paper pieced cow came from a website that was in Dutch, and it is put together in sections, which is something I have not done before. My background is yellow, but the sunflowers are too, so all the rules and techniques are taken care of. I was going to put a fence around the cow, but there is just not enough room to do what I had in mind. I may go back later and add something else.
Rules 7 and 8 together.
And the whole picture -er- I mean quilt. It is getting pretty big now.

You can see that I have done some overlapping and added some embroidery to my hexagon. The next part to the bottom will have something on the bottom of the hexie.

Marie's Optical Illusion Rule 8

This block is quite different from my others.  The 3-d doesn't show up as much as I had hoped--I think because I didn't have enough contrast between my two yellows.  The whole block turned out much different than I thought it would.  I didn't like it when I was finishing it, but when I stood back and looked at it I liked it a lot better.  I found the pattern at piecebynumber.com and it is called "arabesque".  

When I put 4 blocks together and made the center, it was really cool, but since it couldn't be a square block I had to add more to the top and bottom of the block.  (The picture ended up sideways when I posted it.)  It didn't work to put another set of four blocks because it made the block a little too tall and there was no focal point to the block so I had to get creative to finish it to the size it needs to be.  It's a little strange, but it surely would be a beautiful quilt if it was in multiples of 4 blocks.  Maybe I'll try it some time.

I love paper piecing because it is so accurate and neat.  I thought it was a fun rule. 

I was surprised to see how much larger my quilt is when I put it all together.  We're really making progress, and I'm having great fun with this!

Pam's Woods Mystery

Rule 7 doesn't look too dimensional, but it is the tumbling block pattern.

Rule 8 doesn't look too much like a treet to me but it is actually paper-pieced using the Weeping Willow paperpieced pattern from Quilters' Cache by Marcia Hohn.

I am having a little trouble posting. I hope it goes through this time. This mystery has really been a challenge for me, but I have really enjoyed participating in it and looking at everyone's themes and interpretations of the rules. I am also looking forward to seeing everyone's finish and hope we can do this again next year.

Rule Release #8

SIZE:   Our quilts should now measure 37 1/2" tall by 31 1/2" wide because we have not joined rule #7 yet.  Rule release #7 began a column to fit on either SIDE of the project.  This rule #8 will complete that column.   Make it 20" tall by 12" wide finished  (which means 20 1/2 x 12 1/2 unfinished).  Join rules 7 & 8 on top of each other according to your preference to form a column and then to either SIDE of the quilt.

Technique:  Paper Piecing technique

Rule: include the color yellow or add a flower of any sort

DUE DATES: 
  -Teaser releases anytime you want and as often as you desire.
    -A completed photo can be released beginning on (Monday) June 27th.
  -Final due date and rule #9 release date (Fri) July 8th.  Sorry it is a little longer but some are playing catch up and several have a crazy June. 

Good luck and enjoy!!