foundation pieced circles

A diary of an intuitive circle made using foundation piecing.  I share it with humbleness.  I really did not know what I was doing.   

Feb 22:  I pinned a cotton sheet to my pinwall first and then pinned the round table cloth that I had dyed with indigo in 2014.  Using a wasable marker, I drew an outline of the circle onto the sheet.   This is the size I want my finished circle to be.  

Then I cut out tissue paper triangles intuitively. I made enough tissue paper triangles to go around the diameter of the circle and pinned them to the wall. The short fat triangles on the left were the size I used.     

Feb 24:  I had been hoarding this dotted fabric and was excited to use it. The triangles were cut out one at a time and pinned to the wall.  It took a couple of days just to cut and pin.  

Feb 25:  Once I had all the outer ones cut out and pinned to the wall, it was time to cut fabrics for the narrower inside triangles that would be sewn together with the outside ones.  I had to make a decision about whether to use more dotted fabric for the inner triangles or use contrasting fabric.  I made more tissue paper patterns.  I looked.  I made decisions. 

Feb 28:  I sewed all the triangles by hand and was able to create a complete circle. 

March 1:  I moved everything onto the table.  

March 1:  With a washable marker I drew two circular lines onto the bed sheet.  One along the inner edge of the sewn triangles, and another three inches away. Then within those two lines, I drew triangles to fit the curve.  All drawing was directly onto the bedsheet.

March 2:  Then, on a separate piece of cotton gauze fabric, I made a foundation pattern by tracing the triangles that I drew on the bedsheet onto the curved strips of gauze.  (any lightweight fabric that you can see through is suitable).  (The gauze I use is available here .) 

March 2:  I began to stitch and flip using the gauze foundation fabric as a guide.  

To guide my cutting and to be frugal with my hoarded dotted cloth, I made tissue paper patterns for the triangles.  A fatter one for the outer triangle and a thinner one for the inner triangle.   

March 4:  I was soon able to sew the inner curve to the outer curve.  (by hand of course)

March 6:  The two outer rings of a large circle are now pieced.  I have to take a break from this blue piece.  I'm not sure what to do next and need to let it steep for a bit.  

I was so happy creating this, that I let it get away from me.   I need a break from it.  It's too much for me at the moment.