First Blocks

I have started work on the Four Winds quilt.  I have 7 blocks finished, and have sewed them together in pairs.  I am having all kinds of troubles with it, mostly with the quarter inch seams.  I decided to try paper piecing it, and made a pattern and this would actually work well if I had thought of it in the beginning.  But I have cut all the fabric for the whole quilt, with quarter inch seam allowances.  If I had cut fabric for paper piecing, I would have given the pieces wider seam allowances, like half inch or 3/8th.  It's very hard to align the strips a quarter inch from the sewing line on both sides.  I pin the sewing line so I can see where it is, but things shift, or stretch, or something!  Anyway, as with every quilting project, the more I do, the better I get at it, and I am getting the hang of it now. Here's how it is going so far:

The first blocks of the Four Winds quilt are done.