Blocks and supplies

So exciting that so many people are loving this EPP bloghop idea! We have some bloghop virgins and some EPP virgins signed up, so where do we get started?

How about with a picture?

I snapped this grevillia which I planted about a year ago out the front of my house. These are Australian natives and the birds love them.

I opened it in the Adobe Ideas app on my iPad, and that suggested the following palette. Took a screenshot and voila.

 The nice thing about  this app is that if you don't like the colours it suggests, you can move those dots around to any point on the photo and it pinpoints the exact colour. If you don't have this app, there are lots online, including this lovely palette builder http://www.play-crafts.com/blog/palette-builder/.

I then dove into my stash and came out with three Birch organics from Fabricworm and two fat quarters of Simply Colour from WantItNeedItQuilt.

Spring grevillia palette

So next to decide on a block. Take a look at the Pinterest board that Danny put together for us. I found six paper pieced blocks that I'd like to share.

First up, Gingermonkey Katy is teaching her Spring Carnival block at Sewing Summit.

Second, there's Starblossom from Rachel at StitchedInColor.

Starblossom from Stitched In Color

Third, I've been falling in love with the Tesselations blocks VeryKerryBerry has been stitching. They are from a book - look to Kerry's site for the links and a how-to Kerry-style.

Fourth, Rose Stars.

Rose Stars by Tina of Seaside Stitches

Miss Jane of WantItNeedItQuilt has very kindly offered to giveaway one set of templates for this lovely block. To win, tell me which of these blocks you'd most like to make and what you'd pick from Jane's store as your central hexagon colour.

Fifth is Penrose which can be found on the paper-pieces.com site as a downloadable pdf and of course, they have all the papers!

Finally, we have the gorgeous JazzHands by Sarah Fielke from her book Material Obsession 2. It is very similar to the Rose Star block, but has only one shape - the kite shape.

Jazz hands by Sarah Fielke.

Too much choice? I've put together a little table of what you need for each block. Remember to use your discount code at paper pieces.com to get your pre cuts shapes at 20% off.

Spring Carnival	Starblossom	Tesselations	Rosestars	Penrose	Jazz Hands
2" hexagon	See here for requirements	1" Hexagon	2" hexagon	72 deg diamonds	2" kites
2" Square		2" 60 deg diamonds	2" kite	36 deg diamonds
2" Triangle		Triangles	hexagon thirds

If you were so busy looking at the pretty pictures that you missed the bit about winning a rose-star template, read back and find out what you have to do!