Selecting a Pattern
Of
course the greatest place for quilting patterns on the internet can be found
right here at About.com. Our quilting
guide, Susan
C. Druding, has compiled a terrific site full of all the information you
will ever need to know about quilting. She also has a great page of free
quilt patterns. So many of these patterns would work wonderfully
for scrapbook paper piecing, but I especially like:
The pattern that I used for the sample page is the "Wheels" block from the block of the month series. After I chose this pattern as the one I wanted to try working with, I printed it out from Susan's site. Then, I adjusted it to fit the size I wanted for my page layout. I decided that I wanted to enlarge the pattern slightly so that the picture pieces would be larger and it would fit nicer on my scrapbook page. This could easily be done with a photocopier however, since the pattern that I chose was very geometric in nature (as most of them are) it was very easy for me to simply reconstruct the pattern on a larger piece of square white paper using a ruler and a pencil. I recommend cardstock for your final pattern because it will be easier to cut or trace around when you transfer the pattern to your photos. As you can see in the diagram above, the "wheels" block is constructed of four identical smaller blocks. Therefore, I only needed the four pieces that made up one of the smaller blocks to use as my pattern pieces. I cut apart these four pieces and labeled them to help me remember which piece went where.
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