As you know, Laura and I are going on our own crazy post-Sewing Summit road trip.
We thought we’d sew in some odd places, take photos, play with fabric colours fitting the landscape and see what we can come up with. But we thought “why should we have all the fun?” and “but there will be an awful lot of red rocks and some colour variety would be nice”. Soo…
- got an exotic location? or a location that might not be exotic to you but bloggers overseas might find fascinating? (see the boring old Kangaroo Laura spotted on her dog walk 5 minutes from home? YAWN)
- Got a love of English paper piecing?
- Got a blog or flickr account?
Then join us!
The bloghop will run from October 1 to November 30. You can join in with a blogpost of your own (grab the Travellin’ Pic-Stitch button from the sidebar), sew along using your own inspiration, follow the bloggers who will be joining us, or do all of the above!
Katy of ImAGingerMonkey will kick it off on October 1 with her rocking paper piecing skills. On 6 October, Jess of LifeUnderQuilts and creator of the most watched “how to paper piece with a small ginger child on your lap” on the web will be offering some expert pointers that will be of use even to those without a small ginger chilld… (It’s a video well worth watching). And some other web-lebrities are joining in too!
Paperpieces.com is providing a discount code for any hoppers and there will be a linky party with some AMAZING prizes on November 30… Read on for more juicy details..
What do you have to do?
I’m glad you asked!
1) Take a photo to start with. Somewhere great.
2) Create a palette from the colours in the photo. You can do this by eye or you can use something like Degrave’s Color Palette Generator or Adobe Ideas for Ipad to do something like this:
Aww, nice kanga.
3) Pick a selection of fabrics which match the photo palette and name it if you like.
4) Choose an English paper pieced block (such as Katy’s Spring Carnival or Rachel’s starblossom) and sew it in those fabrics. We’ll give you a rundown on some popular blocks and what you need shortly.
5) Write a post or flickr post it including a link back to the main page either at QuokkaQuilts or TheLittlestThistle.
6) Link up on November 30th!
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| Image borrowed from Stitched In Color – Rachel is bloghopping too! |
Aurifil are offering THREE drool-worthy sets of BEAUTIFUL threads…. Take a look.
The first giveaway will be from Jane at WantItNeedItQuilt, so keep an eye out for that one!
We’ll give you some links to resources and ideas SOON. And some of our first blog-stops will be how-tos and helpful hints, so don’t be scared if you haven’t EPP’d before! If you need some Pinspiration, check this out.
There are a few places left if you’d like to be a pitstop on the bloghop so let us know and we’ll send you the deets. If you don’t have a blog and just want to sew along and join up on November 30th, please do! It’s going to be heaps of fun!
oh, I am so totally in! No kangaroos in my neck of the woods, unfortunately
No Patchwork for me I'm up to my neck in fluff and stuff.
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Sounds like fun!
This is exciting. I may have to just go travel somewhere to get a really good picture. Because of course I take hardly any pictures and won't have one already…hmmm do I sound like I'm looking for an excuse to go out?!
This does sound like something a bit different, making those palettes is great fun. I am feeling a bit stretched at the moment though.
What a clever idea…..I'm going to be a very interested by stander. Looking forward to the postings. OmaLinda
I want in…. lol
Trawling through my photos as I write! Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with.
Can I use an older travel pic or does it need to be a new one?
Very excited to be taking part Katy, I've never done that colour matching thing before, and I am going to try and come up with my own, all new EPP pattern!
whoop whoop!!
I wish there were kangaroos down the street from me. I'm in, it will be fun.
Love this idea!
Sounds like so much fun!
I'm excited to be included, but can't seem to make a palette on that website…help?
I'm excited to be included, but can't seem to make a palette on that website…help?
Mmm what a great idea! Where are you going post Salt Lake City? X
I haven't done any EPP yet, this could be my excuse.
And that kangaroo is super exotic. All I see are glamorous prairie dogs.