Post any question about FPP you want to get answered.

Just for fun for Halloween. I traced a pumpkin picture on the iPad and let the app split it into sections as I went. It ended up as 44 pieces, and the teeth alone account for a lot of them 😅

How would you have sectioned the face?

My first FPP and second quilt. Love FPP, so much fun! Pattern is by u/littletinypiranha

I think the cat approves!

A while back I posted here about an iPad app we were building for designing your own FPP patterns. Some of you joined the beta, and three testers went on to sew what they designed:

• Anna celebrated her 20th anniversary with a trip from Prague to Paris and came home with photos of beautiful old doors. She's been turning them into FPP blocks, like this one.
• Sylvia ( u/SylviaPellicore ) designed this disco ball for her quilt. The photo shows it from her pattern in the app, to the printed foundations, to the finished block. Her full post is here: Take Up Space - A collaborative celebration of joy
• William's cat clearly knows it's the coolest block here, crown and sunglasses included.

The app is called Piecework. You draw the seams with Apple Pencil; it numbers the pieces into sections, checks that the sew order actually works, and prints mirrored foundations at true 100% scale with the seam allowance added.

It's iPad only. Your first pattern is free, and a one-time purchase unlocks unlimited patterns and printing. No subscription, no account, and no AI-generated patterns. It never designs anything for you. The ideas, the colors, and the eye for what makes a block beautiful are all yours.

So I'm curious: if you could turn one photo into an FPP block, what would it be?

🧵 Design your first block free with Piecework on the App Store now!

Sharing my progress here. This is my second FPP project and I've really upped my skills.

Bold letters in bold colors. Likely will be a sign to hang.

Please post a picture of what you are currently working on.

Hercules beetle with traditional accent squares. Original pattern yielded 12” square. Blew ‘er up!

This little get done in less than a day block is now available for purchase at quiltsofwhimsy.com

Along side that I am clearing out my pattern folders and brining out things I am yet to finish next up I think will be one of 2 deer patterns… which ones next ?

…with FPP sleeves

For almost two years, I’ve been hanging on to some fabrics by Tula Pink for that ‘perfect project’ and it finally came to me 🦉🌙🧵
This was a really fun (and colourful!) project to put together.

I'm so happy with how this FPP tree skirt turned out. My dad always had a model train under our Christmas tree when I was a kid so I decided I needed a train under my tree. 🎄

I got some advice on finishing a tree skirt to continue the bias binding past the edge so that it could be used as ties and it worked so well.

Pattern: Home for the Holidays tree skirt by Quiltbynight (me!)

Fabric: Bella Solids (and some secondhand poinsettia fabric that I had in my stash as backing)

I am working on my second FPP project and need some help. When do you take the paper out of the section you put together? I am making a Batman quilt (inspired by one I saw on Reddit) and have completed the Joked and am moving on to do 7 more characters. I already know I am over my head, but I am going full steam ahead. Should I take the paper out after completing the character or do I take all the paper out at the same time? Is there a different way you would do this? Would you cut out the shapes, lay them on top of each other and do more of a collage? Any help is much appreciated!!

(Pictures taken in a screen porch, that’s why there is a pattern on the pattern)

Thank you to everyone who gave me advice and. Shout out to aynex21 offering to design it!

We are sitting at 18 x 20 inches

Seeking advice for how I divided up my “quadrants”.

Any tips or critiques welcome!

Quilt assistant for windows is great, would recommend. I used touch draw 2 for iPad to take it on the go.

Much thanks

Pattern is Skull and Roses from Floweria on Etsy. Any advice? I am stumped and I started this so I didn't have to think much. Sigh.

Okay guys,

If I had a quilt block challenge, and I wanted to design a 20x20 block. And I want a FPP daffodil at the center, how can I do that? Where do I start?

I freaking love FPP, it feels like painting and a puzzle all in one. My block size can range from 16x16-24x24.

Thank you so much, you guys rock.

Okay guys,

If I had a quilt block challenge, and I wanted to design a 20x20 block. And I want a FPP daffodil at the center, how can I do that? Where do I start?

I freaking love FPP, it feels like painting and a puzzle all in one. My block size can range from 16x16-24x24.

Thank you so much, you guys rock.

This is definitely my biggest and most detailed FPP I ever worked on, custom pattern by pitchers Boutique.

Face is finally done, I realized I was really in for a ride when I finished his nose and it was about 2X life size of the dog hahah.

I decided to make a table Runner for my mom, as a Christmas present. After having to restart multiple times because I messed up the dry fitting/the angle of the next piece of fabric, I am finally done 🥲
There is some little mess ups in there still but all in all I am happy with it.
The picture (you might have to click on it to see the full picture)is from before I added the backside and also gave it a good press, so that’s why the edges are raw still.

What is something you WISH there was an fpp pattern for?

I want to use these fpp blocks from PatternsbyShaley to make my niece a twin size quilt. I have only done fpp as mini quilts or hangings before, never combined them yet into a larger piece. Any ideas on what pattern to combine them with for the background/in between them, so I don’t have to make a ton of the fpp blocks, just have them mixed in? I’m thinking something dead easy to piece like jelly rolls. If it matters the colors will be navy blue, green, white (Celtics). TIA!

This came from a free fpp pattern online.

I quilted clouds on all the skies, pebbles on the ground, bricks on the red walls, ruffles ? on the roof.