New York Beauties
Taking a cue from the vintage New York Beauty , I was inspired to simplify the piecing from templates to foundation paper piecing. This is a class I am teaching this summer at the MAQ in Gettysburg, Pa. I worked on this quilt, off and on, for 8 years. I finally admitted that it was best for me NOT to do the quilting and I gave it over to Jane Hauprich and her master machine work! New York Beauty: 35" x 35" There are 3 parts to this quilt: the center Dogwood Blossom blocks, the borders of Dogtooth units, and the corner LeMoyne stars. Let me show you a few vintage quilts. This first one has the same parts as mine. Can you imagine all those templates?! Orange and yellow New York Beauty And one in blue and brown and orange. More detail. Let's see some of the units for another color-way. I'm making this in Kaffe Fassett fabrics. These are the paper pieced Dogtooth units. It's certainly a lot easier to foundation paper piece these rather than work with templates. Look ...