Garden Party - free PDF pattern

Jennifer from Sewhooked has organised an awesome blog hop for the month of April.  Each day a new blogger is sharing a free paper pieced pattern within the theme of Garden Party.  Plus, there's giveaways!!! You really should check it out, especially those of you interested in practicing your paper piecing and Jennifer has some great tutorials as well.





Today it's ME!! My perception of a Garden Party is very English and of course those Brit's certainly love their Pimm's (and cucumber sandwiches).  If you've never heard of Pimm's you really should check out the website, it is a fabulous British retro inspired site and it even shows Brits picnicking with their Pimm's!

My block is fairly simple in design (you know, it's my first pattern).  The only tricky part is the handle and I've broken that down into the least number of pieces to make it as easy as possible.  My biggest tip for paper piecing is to make sure your fabric scraps are bigger than you think they need to be, it does make life easier if you have excess you can trim down after you have sewn.

Pimm's Garden Party PDF.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the other bloggers in the hop.

FQ8 Paper Piecing Sew Along Details

A huge thanks to everyone who made a mention of this little SAL on their blog.  I've made a button without even asking inhouse IT for help I had to ask for some help with the code in the end. You might want to add it to your blog (grab the code from my sidebar).  

I've even set up a Flickr group, FQ8 Paper Piecing Sew Along.  Don't worry, if you don't have a Flickr account, I'll set up a linky party at the end of each month and everyone can add their links to that.

So the nitty gritty about the group. This is not a "how-to group" with tutorials. You will need to have your own copy of Fat Quarterly Issue 8 (it's a download so you get to have it straight away!). The group is a place for us to support each other through the process of making the projects. There are about a dozen projects to choose from, you may even wish to concentrate on one particular technique like foundation piecing or freezer paper piecing or English paper piecing or have a go at all three. You may be planning to make every project or just concentrate on one or two, it doesn't matter, everyone is welcome.  

Take in the eye candy of some of the projects you'll find in the ezine:

1. Skating on Frog Pond, Fat Quarterly Issue 8, 2. Quilter's Clock, 3. Apple Pie Pillow, 4. Geared Up Robot

1. Braided Kaleidoscope for Fat Quarterly, 2. My potholder pattern in the current issue of Fat Quarterly! #sewing #quilting #kitchen, 3. Summer Trees Pillow, 4. Teapot Fancy Cozy

1. Spring Clean Quilt, 2. Elixir Bottle, 3. Star Flower, 4. Fat Quarterly Issue 8 - This is so cool being part of it

So don't forget to put a button on your blog and sign up to the Flickr group!