I think I've caught the foundation paper piecing bug. I just made a New York Beauty quilt (which I'll be sharing next week) and now I've started on another FPP project.

This one is all made up with scrappy sunshine-y blocks.

I've made four blocks so far and am playing around with how I'll lay them out. 

All together to make a sunshine

All of the centres facing one direction

All of the centres facing outward (which gives a cool secondary pattern with the sun's rays)

When I sat down to make my New York Beauty quilt, I borrowed some books from the library, looked through Pinterest (A LOT) and watched many a YouTube video.

The best tip I picked up from all of those resources was to draw a 1/8" line on the outside of the edge seams... the seams which will be on the outside of the block. Does that make sense?

It gives a little bit of wiggle room for those of us who aren't perfect sewists (that's me) and the blocks are then trimmed down to size at the end. Love this tip so much!

This made me wonder, do you like Foundation Paper Piecing? 

What are your tips for successful blocks?

Thanks everyone for your comments and emails about our new fluffy addition to the family. Harry is a sweet little thing and gosh he loves a cuddle. In saying this, he also likes to roughhouse with Charlie (who is 11 months older) and chase him around the house. 

He's so dark and fluffy that it's tricky to get a good picture of him. Here's one that turned out okay and is a little bit cute, if I do say so myself.