When Aylin invited me to be a part of Big City Girl QAL, I responsed fast. I met Aylin during FQ Retreat and I like her immediately, so I just couldn't say no:)

The goal of this QAL is to sew together blocks about cities and places you live or you visited already or always dreamed of.

I made a block of the city I love and I live in: Warsaw, the capitol of Poland. The Mermaid is its icon, but I've added something more modern in the background: one of the newest bridges in Warsaw: the Świętokrzyski Bridge. This choice was rather obvious since the Mermaid monument is located near the bridge - just click HERE to see how it looks for real (well, not maybe right now, because new subway line is build under the river and now this place looks a bit different, full of machinery and workers:).

My first thought about my block was about adding a bit of color to it. So I've added some energetic colors to the bridge. The colors symbolize night life in Warsaw.





You can download pdf copy with templates HERE (Google Docs) and HERE (Craftsy).





/ Papierki można pobrać TUTAJ (Google Docs) i TUTAJ (Craftsy).

schedule with links to the blocks:

/ The Big City Girl QAL rozpoczął się we wrześniu, ale można do niego dołączyć w każdym czasie. Poniżej terminarz pojawiania się nowych bloków:





/ Będą też dodatkowe atrakcje: linky party z nagrodami. Koniecznie zajrzyjcie na blog Aylin lub Amy po szczegóły.

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Here's my block:There are two sizes of my block:- 12" x 12" - for advanced at paper piecing,- 16" x 16" - at intermediate level.But if you haven't paper pieced so far, don't be afraid. In Forest QAL some people new to paper piecing finished even the most complicated blocks. So it would be good to give it a try! Don't worry about mistakes - we all make it! Even people who are advanced have sometimes problems with finishing paper piecing blocks (for example, I made one mistake in my block - do you see it?).This block has a lot of pieces and while piecing you could hate me, but once you're done, you'll love your mermaid!As always, I wouldn't be able to share my block with you without help of Joanna (@ Shape Moth ), who draw my design in EQ7 - thanks Joanna, you're the greatest!It's not easy to give fabric requirements since most of the parts are small and you won't use a lot of fabrics for piecing it. You need almost FQ for background and F8 for the hair. For the rest of pieces scraps will be great.Here's the scheme of the Warsaw Mermaid block (ready block and scheme with pieces numbers):(there's 1" square to check if the printed copy is ok).Templates for 12" x 12" block are on pages 1-6, templates for 16" x 16" block are on pages 7-15.I heard from quilters that there are no problems in downloading file on Craftsy, but If you can't print it, just e-mail me at jednoiglec [at] wp [dot] pl and I'll send you a pdf copy.The Big City Girl QAL started at the beginning of September, but you can join it at any time! Here's theIf you don't know anything about paper piecing, please see wonderful tutorials made by talented bloggers:- Fresh Lemon Quilts tutorial - in ENGLISH - Very Kerry Berry tutorial - in ENGLISH (piecing using freezing paper - very useful method!).