Sailing, Sailing - Piecing

Most of the blocks in this quilt need to be paper-pieced, due to the small scale and unusual angles. The sailboats in particular needed careful piecing, and they finished at 6"x6".



The larger sailboat which is the center medallion for this quilt was to finish at 21" square; this was too large for me to paper piece, so I did a lot of eyeballing, cutting, stitching, unstitching, recutting, and restitching until I got it right. I don't do enough quilts with triangles and various other angles to be really skilled at getting it right the first time, but once I figured it out, the large sailboat & sashing blocks came out perfectly:



Phew! That's enough for today.

Happy quilting!