Paper Pieced Piper Cub Quilt top, part 3

I think I’m getting a little faster and not minding the paper piecing quite as much.

Maybe that happens with a little more experience..

Anyway, here are the next two columns finished in this top.

I decided to do it this way instead of row by row - so that as I did it, I would have the finished plane revealed. I was afraid if I went row by row (instead of column by column) and just had a mass of little pieces, that I wouldn’t be able to see the forest for the trees, to use an expression. So for my own sanity, I decided to go ahead and finish the plane in columns, so that the reveal would be gradual.

My daughter and her husband were coming in to visit us a few days ago and the plane was one of those situations where it was late, later and then even later. We were just kind of waiting around to go to the airport - I had done my cleaning up and such. I decided to work on another block - figuring maybe I could get one more block done. But each time I went to the computer to check, the plane was pushed later. In fact, As such I was able to get the 4th column done.

Just in case you are interested in this pattern it is here.

So here it is in its current state. I will admit that as I write this, I am dreading that 5th column. But thankfully, the pieces are so small, it is like taking tiny bites…so that I know when I sit down to work on the 5th column, it will be do-able. But I’ll be working on the windshield and it’s a bit tricky. I think one of those blocks consists of part a-q so 17 small pieces go into the one block.

If you are just now catching up with me - this one is for my husband’s brother, who had a Piper Cub and kind of wrecked it. But he loved that plane - it was orange. When I saw this paper pieced plane - actually there are several on Etsy—-I showed my husband, who actually knows planes - and he said, “My brother had one like that—he would love that!” Then he gave me the picture. So, after thinking about it for a month or more, I pushed the “buy” button on that pattern and then let it sit and get ripe for a bit.

Finally I thought, “Might as well try.”

So, this is part of my airplane series of quilts - number 4. This series may be about 10 big. We’ll see.

I’ve found a couple more patterns I want to make - (paid ones). plus the ones I want to make from the airplane fabric I have. We have some friends whose husband retired from Delta…so there is this one which would be cool.

Anyway, this series if one of my efforts to get to the things I’ve wanted to do and not do “just” scrap quilts. I do have plenty of scraps and create more all the time just from leftovers from the regular quilts I make - all the charity ones create scraps and of course, something like this creates scraps.

I have so many scrap quilts, however, and several started. So do not fear…more are on their way.

Thanks so much for coming along with me on this journey.

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!

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