I made the Penrose Tile English paper Piecing Quilt Block for the Travellin Pic Stitch Blog Hop!

(Update: Travellin Pic stitch was a bloghop held by Laura in 2012, where I won the prize of a box of Aurifil thread for my entry. It was a challenge to create english paper piecing projects using an inspired photo taken from a recent travel)

So, it all began with a photo :

The photo was taken at one of the famous spring carnivals in Australia, Floriade.

Then, a few pulls from my stash.. Tula Pink – Birds and the Bees lines were among them. I didn’t use them all in the end though..

travelling picstich

Picking up a pattern to do. I was inspired to create a Penrose Tile Inspired block.

Penrose Tile Inspired English Paper Piecing Quilt Block

So I started with the diamonds for the center pentagons. These are 72-degree diamonds.

Basting it to the tiny paper pieces..

EPP TPS bloghop1

Then the black stripy filler diamonds which is the 36-degree diamonds. 

Here’s the middle part of my block is done. Not pretty happy with it, but I embrace the imperfection and move on to finish it off as planned anyway. I still have a lot to learn on how to really hide those whip stitches from being visible too much at the front.
block begins 1

I tried using a thimble as my fingertips were getting sore. But I think I am not used to it yet. It makes things go slower and a bit weird – I ended up pushing the needles with the finger with no thimble on.

thimble

By the end of this block, I did finally learned how to minimize the visible stitch.. maybe next time I’ll have a go again and leave a better tip to share.. as for now, I do think that I still need to practice more.. it is kind of addictive once you have a clear objective for the pieces…Sometimes I didn’t even realize the time when I start stitching – but I’d better be careful next time as it may cause injury for being too long in the same position.

Finally done

For the penrose tile, you can actually just let it keep growing larger and larger by the round.

But I decided to keep it small as I wanted to make a mini quilt to hang. 

Finally done2

Anyway, this block is going to be appliquéd to a hand-quilted mini quilt soon. I have been meaning to try hand quilting too. Wish me luck.

but before that, how about a messy back photo of it…

messy back

Time to remove those papers…

Here is another photo at Floriade from the top of the ferris wheel

Flower arrangement as hats - Floriade 2012, Canberra

Thank you for your visit here. Thank you Laura from Quokka Quilts for organizing this bloghop. Sure was a fun one. A great motivation to definitely start EPP too. Now hop on to Laura’s blog to see more fantastic EPPs with fun travelling Pic!

 

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