As I glanced at my blog for my previous NOVA update... I realized- there weren't any since the very first entry.
Quite surprised, I somehow managed to only share things with the FB NOVA group and the pricks in my fingertips... let's start at the very beginning and work our way through:
I made my very first post on instagram 21 weeks ago:
No more spending hours in awe on Pinterest wasting time: avoiding that first fabric pick, first cut, first stitch, first needle prick! SEW excited to finally take the leap in to EPP! #tulanovaquilt #epp
21w
I sewed together 3 pieces of matching fabrics
to create pieced sewing machine for NOVA center
quickly discovered my favorite part was
planning- cutting & glueing!
SEW many Fabric Decisions... cutting... glueing... and determined
hand stitching many of the “puzzle pieces
together”! Nova ring 5 is ready for STITCH in
place! #tulapinknova 17w
I decided to use solids for my stars
and go with a rainbow wash effect.
HOMEMADE love ❤️ stitched 🧵 around a
rainbow 🌈 of 🌟 stars to complete RING 5 in my
16w
with a celebration of mixed fabric collections
escaping the coveted hoard of Tula Pinks: All
stitched around a rainbow of “Solids” and
“Homemade”stars... around a “Flutterby” of agave
bees... all around a pieced “Homemade” sewing
machine with some more Busy Fingers and Pins and
Needles! #tulapinknova #epp 15w
All the “puzzle pieces” for ring 7 have been
created... next up: to hand-stitch the rainbow solid
stars, homemade hands, and beautiful floral and suits
from TPs newest Curiouser & Curiouser line to
surround inner ring. #tulapinknova #epp 14w Pairings up ready to complete next ring
Adding the heart pieces...
Paper Piecing puzzle continues... the heart ❤️ of ring
7 has been hand stitched in place and awaits its ring
completion of stars 🌟 and 🖐 #tulanova 13w
Next up:sew the stars in place...
I have completed another ring within my NOVA English Paper Piecing
puzzle... with all of the second ring of stars now
stitched in place... it is time to return to the fabric
stacks and cutting table to make the final decisions
for that last ring! #tulanova #epp 11w
My last “artsy” stars are ready for
their debut in the final ring of my NOVA English
Paper Piecing Puzzle. Just 5 more basic outer stars
to complete— and then it’s just a ring around the
#englishpaperpiecing 6w Final round of centers... & stars
17 weeks and 3 days later, I am
excited to share my pieced completely hand pieced
NOVA! I even dipped in to those hoarded Tula Pink
fabric collections. It is my very first English Paper
Pieced quilting project- I learned so much. I can't
wait to quilt it! #tulapinknova #epp 5w
Putting all the lessons I
learned in The Free Motion Quilting Challenge to
work: Block by block, stitch by stitch… I am
braving my way along my now fully English paper
pieced NOVA quilt. It’s completion is near 🤪 #tulanova 4w
My Babylock was kept very busy after all the EPP
handwork was complete.
5 weeks later... the outer
ring surrounding my NOVA EPP wall quilt is finall y
surrounded in BUBBLES. That is 14 bobbins & 2
rolls of thread worth of sewn bubble rings, and I am
still not done quilting the outer ring... but it will be
on pause as I return to the mobility of my
3w
I spent over a week debating final shape- torn
between square and stop sign. In the end... square
ruled itself out, when I realized I did not have
enough extra on all sides to create a true square.
So I cut away hours and hours worth of quilting and
went with the stop sign
.
And then I hand pieced the binding and set it aside
another week until I could come up with a plan on
how to mount it for display...
The shape left me a lot of problems for display and
eventually I came up with the idea of a deep
inverted pocket to hold cardboard and hang from
small quilt rod...HOPEFULLY it will work.
I sewed the cardboard in-
in hopes of keeping the quilt mounted flat against wall...
My mounting attempt lasted
less than a minute on the wall before I
realized it would buckle & spent the rest of day
removing all my stitches and cardboard.
So, it was back to the drawing board
for a more basic idea.
I went back to the basics and
sewed a heavy duty fabric
sleeve in place on top.
Each corner is tacked to the wall with
command velcro wall strips.
She hangs proudly in our bedroom!!!
quickly discovered my favorite part was 