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Wheel of Fortune is doing my head in!

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I was very pleased with my first Jen Kingwell cushion (which I haven't blogged about yet) and I decided that I would make another cushion for my friend as a house-warming gift.  This time I chose Wheel of Fortune and it is my first foundation paper piecing project.  I found a gorgeous black fabric with embossed shells to use as the background for the cushion. My friend (who is also an artist) has just bought a house that overlooks the beach and I think that she will enjoy the contrast between the black seashell pattern and lots of coloured fabrics in the wedges. I don't normally cut all fabrics before I start to sew. But this time I gathered as many decent size scraps as possible from florals, stripes, dots, very modern brights, country, Christmas, novelty, Australiana, Aboriginal and even a couple of solid fabrics. I then cut between 2 and 4 strips from each fabric to ensure that I have a lot of variety. Then I got on to the nitty gritty of foundation pieci