Has anyone made a New York Beauty?

[sewbug]

I signed up for a class to make a wall hanging of one and we have to bring our own fabric. I've been looking at pictures online and the choosing the right color fabric will be hard for me. I want a lot of contrast and color. Anyone have any ideas? What QIAD fabric would you choose?

[sewbug]

Oh, I'm not partial to pink and QIAD has an excellent fabric kit but in pink!

[Pilot2b]

signed up to take class and couldn't get out of bed the day of the class. It really is a beautiful quilt and I needed a challenge. Good luck selecting fabric. Believe my pattern I purchased had many dark fabrics in it.

Good Luck

Helen

[cindyg]

Sewbug - I think that quilt would be gorgeous in dark jewel tone batiks including some yellow/golds for contrast. One of these days I'm going to make one of those.

[sewbug]

I like the yellow/gold idea.

[calicopuzzle]

I did a workshop with New York Beauty blocks. It took me ALL DAY to make 2 blocks. I had bought batiks for it in contrasting colors, but noticing how small the paper-pieced wedges were after sewing them, I realized I didn't need to have alot of pattern to the fabric. Those were the first two blocks I made and the last two blocks I made....hope you enjoy it....I thought it was more than my patience would endure! Hope you have more endurance than I had, but just in case you aren't sure, remember, you can always go back for more fabric if you like the process!

[Evie]

The pattern from quilt in a day uses fusible, not paper piecing! I believe the pattern is in Quilt Through the Seasons.

[grammy65]

While going through all my quilting magazines this week, I came across a paper pieced New York Beauty pattern that I think I will try. It is designed by Pat Sloan. She did it in traditional fabric, but think I will go with batiks. Paper piecing is the only way I would even try this pattern. I really don't want to applique` all that, and I definitely don't want to try piecing with templates. So guess paper piecing is the best way for me. We will see!!!!

The pattern was in McCall's Quilting October 2006.

[cindyg]

Grammy65 - good luck. I would also like to make New York Beauty. It's a 'one of these days' thing. I'm anxious to see how yours turns out. Have you done paper piecing before? I have not so it might behoove me to do a simpler pattern first.

[grammy65]

Cindyg....I really like the pattern I found. I have done quite a bit of paper piecing. Didn't think I would ever learn. Then I took a class from Billie Lauder at our quilt retreat and finally figured it out. It wasn't that difficult, but I do better with hands on rather than instructions. It's a lot of up and down from the sewing machine to the ironing board to the cutting mat. I finally got it set up so that it was all right next to my sewing machine....but then I wasn't getting any exercise. LOL.

If you haven't done any paper piecing, I think you are right in thinking about doing some practice pieces first.