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These rainbow foundation paper piecing patterns are perfect for the color fanatic! Click through for an huge list of rainbow inspired FPP patterns.
Click to see this big list of free paper piecing patterns, links to paper piecing tutorials, quilting tips, and paper pieced quilt patterns.
Scroll through this round up of 10 Modern Foundation Paper Piecing Patterns to Make, it a modern take on this older quilting technique.
Welcome to the world of quilting, where the rich tapestry of fabric and design come together through paper piecing patterns. Our 20 free paper piecing quilt patterns for beginners are tailored for those eager to infuse their crafting. Each paper piecing pattern offers clear instructions, making intricate blocks achievable with precision and ease. Our guide empowers you to take fabric scraps and transform them into creative masterpieces. Revitalize your quilting with a medley of 20 free paper piecing quilt patterns, a treasure trove for crafting enthusiasts. These patterns encompass both foundation paper piecing and English paper piecing projects, suited for
This how to paper piece for beginners is perfect for newbies who want to learn how to foundation paper piece. Click for full tutorial.
Joe, June and Mae – a fantastic selection of fresh, modern quilt block patterns, that are fun to piece and easy to follow, for stunning quilt results.
Lately I've been busy with foundation paper piecing which quickly became my favourite. It is a great way of making pictures, images with fabric.…
Our Free Paper Piecing Patterns Library includes step-by-step instructions for the beginner. Multiple sizes to download on your home computer.
Welcome to the world of quilting, where the rich tapestry of fabric and design come together through paper piecing patterns. Our 20 free paper piecing quilt patterns for beginners are tailored for those eager to infuse their crafting. Each paper piecing pattern offers clear instructions, making intricate blocks achievable with precision and ease. Our guide empowers you to take fabric scraps and transform them into creative masterpieces. Revitalize your quilting with a medley of 20 free paper piecing quilt patterns, a treasure trove for crafting enthusiasts. These patterns encompass both foundation paper piecing and English paper piecing projects, suited for
Learn how to foundation paper piece with freezer paper with this step-by-step tutorial with photos and link to a free pattern.
Click to see this big list of free paper piecing patterns, links to paper piecing tutorials, quilting tips, and paper pieced quilt patterns.
When I first heard about foundation paper piecing from my friend and saw the quilt she made I thought that paper piecing is complicated and time-consuming. How to sew on paper? What is it? But I was intrigued for a while and in the end, decided to try this method. And I am glad I did! It’s not complicated at all, it’s actually quite simple and allows to make blocks with the greatest accuracy.
Lately I've been busy with foundation paper piecing which quickly became my favourite. It is a great way of making pictures, images with fabric.…
Welcome to the world of quilting, where the rich tapestry of fabric and design come together through paper piecing patterns. Our 20 free paper piecing quilt patterns for beginners are tailored for those eager to infuse their crafting. Each paper piecing pattern offers clear instructions, making intricate blocks achievable with precision and ease. Our guide empowers you to take fabric scraps and transform them into creative masterpieces. Revitalize your quilting with a medley of 20 free paper piecing quilt patterns, a treasure trove for crafting enthusiasts. These patterns encompass both foundation paper piecing and English paper piecing projects, suited for
Perhaps this isn't your first dip in the foundation paper piecing pond, you're more than a beginner, but sometimes a tough angle looms up and you put it off because it's a little intimidating. Or maybe you're using scraps of some precious hoarded fabric and you need to make each little piece fit. Th
Lately I've been busy with foundation paper piecing which quickly became my favourite. It is a great way of making pictures, images with fabric.…
This month's Ambassador Challenge for Island Batik is sponsored by one of our industry partners, Aurifil thread. We were sent a selection of weights and colours in our Ambassador box back in January, and an additional packet of thread arrived later this spring. It included these 3 spools of 40, 28, and 12 weight to be used in our challenge. Our instructions said, "Fabric is your canvas and Aurifil thread your paint! Create a one of a kind art quilt or project with Aurifil thread." This project took a great deal of thinking. Normally, we design to showcase the fabric but this time the thread needed to take centre stage. We had been sent cuts of solid colour batiks, and I decided to use the plain white as my background. I printed some New York Beauty blocks from EQ8 on plain white paper and started colouring in doodles with a box of markers to see if I could make this work. We all know if you can draw it, you can stitch it, so I pulled some of the same colours from my thread stash and set to work. This is my working sketch from EQ8; the blocks are drawn to 6". The only unappealing part of this project was tracing the block outlines onto my fabric. I wanted to get stitching, and this was going to slow me down!! My solution was to cut both freezer paper and the white batik into 9" x 12" pieces, and iron the freezer paper to the back of the fabric. It was then trimmed to 8-1/2" x 11" and fed through my printer. It was a super easy (lazy!) way to transfer the lines. I printed one block first as a test and did this much stitching before I decided it was going to work. (I'm not big on practicing!) The freezer paper was removed from the fabric and the blocks were joined with 1/4" seams as per regular patchwork. I used my favourite Hobbs wool batting for the middle, and another layer of white batik on the back. My bobbin was loaded with 50 weight Aurifil in 2024 white. To say this was fun is an understatement! I changed my needle as often as my thread, opting for a size 12/80 for my 50 weight, a 14/90 topstitch for the 40 and 28 weights, and a 16/100 topstitch for the 12 weight. The 12 weight thread fills in beautifully, even with just rows of straight stitching. The project took about 2 weeks to stitch, and I loved adding new bits every day. Below you can see how fine the 50 weight (purple) used in the swirl inside the spike, appears next to the 12 weight (black). For the white background bits, I simply stitched feathers in white 50 weight. I toss my emptied Aurifil spools into a container, so I fetched two to use as finials. They slid onto each end of a 3/8" dowel for the perfect finishing touch. In all, I used 26 different colours and 4 different weights of cotton thread. Thank you to Aurifil thread, Island Batik, and Hobbs Batting for supplying the products used in this challenge.
These modern paper piecing quilt patterns are for those who love foundation paper piecing. Try out some intermediate and advanced blocks.
When I first shared these paper pieced pompom blocks last month in the monthly bees and BOMs round up, many of you were rather impressed, for which I thank you! But they’re really not the tricky -all I did was use the very popular paper pieced flying geese pattern. If you look carefully, you can […]
Tips for foundation paper piecing that could save you some frustration
The Deviate quilt pattern is all about learning a new skill. Read about the process and how it compares to traditional piecing.
Click to see this big list of free paper piecing patterns, links to paper piecing tutorials, quilting tips, and paper pieced quilt patterns.
Definition of Paper Piecing - Quilting technique in which a design is printed onto paper and fabric pieces are stitched together on the paper for accuracy. I'm not very experienced at paper piecing. I have a tendency to not use a large enough piece of fabric to cover the foundation area I'm working with! So when Karen Neary from Sew Karen-ly Created was asking for pattern testers on a pattern using a New York Beauty block I volunteered. I can't show you the completed project yet, but it turned out great!!! It's amazing to me how a block that starts out with this component, ends up looking like this?
Entdecke das faszinierende Foundation Paper Piecing mit diesem tollen Stern. Gratis Schnittmuster und Anleitung für kreativen Nähspaß.
This collection of paper piecing patterns is great for the animal lover. Click through for a huge list of animal paper piecing patterns.
The paper piecing technique might seem like magic when you look at the intricate patterns you can work with it. It would be extremely difficult, if at all possible, to …
You remember this block? It is 12" square finished and is foundation paper pieced in 8 templates which are sewn into pairs then those ...
When I shared my first feathered star I got a few comments about using the freezer paper foundation piecing method. I tried to respond, but for some reason some of my comments/responses are not going through - so I'm not sure if it worked. I used the same method recently for making butterfly blocks for Chelsea's Round Trip Quilts center, and I thought I'd share it here. Self drafted 4" square (finished) butterfly blocks. The first thing your going to need to do is trace or print your paper piecing template onto the freezer paper. I tend to trace or draw onto them using pencil, because I don't actually have a printer at home. I have heard that printing is an option, though. My traced (drawn) templates. For the butterfly I used two templates. The great thing about the freezer paper method is the ability to reuse the templates. For the feathered star I just created one set of each template. For the butterflies I'm showing here, I needed to make 15. Since I wanted to speed up the process I made 4 of each template, that way I could chain piece my sections. Here I'll show you how I made the multiples without having to trace/draw the pattern many times. I'm also a fan because you don't need to change stitch length, so any mistakes are easy to unpick. I also make way less mistakes, because angles are more accurate, and because the alignment step takes the guesswork out of the 'will this scrap be large enough??' game. Stack the number of sheets of freezer paper necessary to make your copies, waxy side down. I wanted 4 copies, so I stacked 4 pieces of freezer paper. The piece with the template was on top. Next you want to touch an iron to the top of your templates for a few seconds. This will melt wax so the sheets stick together and you wont have shifting. You don't want to press the whole sheet, because you're going to want to separate these guys in a few steps. Touching with the iron (left) gets the sheets to stick together. All you want to see are those little dimples (right). Next, you're going to take the sheet to your unthreaded sewing machine. You want to sew along all the lines you just created. This will transfer the pattern onto the sheets below, and will help with folding the template at the right spots. This is the only time you will be sewing through paper! Sewing along the line (left) transfers the pattern to all the sheets (right). While the papers are still ironed together you want to cut them into separate templates. I like to cut 1/4" away from the edge of the template so that I can see my seam allowance, no guesswork! Once you've cut around your templates you want to gently separate the stacks. They shouldn't be super fragile, but be careful not to rip them. You can see they're trimmed 1/4" away from the template edge, and they're now separated into individual templates. The next step is to fold the interior sections. I'm not talking about seam allowances, just the interior folds, where different pieces of fabric will be joined. On these butterfly templates it would be the lines separating the wing from the background, and the line separating the body from the wings/background. You want to fold the paper in towards the matte side, so it's a mountain crease with the waxy side on the top. Fold interior lines, not seam allowances. The waxy side is facing us here. Next you're going to iron the template onto the first piece of fabric. You just want to iron the first segment onto the wrong side of the fabric. Since I'm using solids here you can't tell it's the 'wrong' side of the fabric, but when using a print make sure that's what you do. You can put the edge of the template right up to the edge of the fabric, or you can leave a little wiggle room, as I did here. You can see only segment 1 is ironed down, the rest of the template is free. Next step is to line up the piece of fabric you're going to sew on. You want to fold the template along the line, and using a window or a light, line up your fabric, right sides together with the first piece, along that line. Make sure you've left enough fabric for the seam allowance. You want your fabric to overlap the template slightly, as you can see here, but it doesn't need to be hugely overhanging. With this method there's less chance of messing up these angles too. If the fabric covers the template, then when you sew it, it will be in the right spot. Unlike with traditional foundation paper piecing when you guess at the angle of an awkward shaped scrap, then need to rip stitches forever. Fabric is lined up. The fabric is on the back side, and the freezer paper template is folded towards us. Previous picture with labels! Finally, time to sew! Take the aligned fabric to your machine and sew right alongside the folded freezer paper. Since you aren't sewing through paper you can keep your stitch length at your preferred piecing length. Sewing right along the paper. Get nice and close without sewing on it. When you're done with the seam take it away from the machine and trim off 1/4" from that folded line. Trimming 1/4" away from sewn line. Next you want to press your seam to the side and onto the freezer paper. Make sure that the template side is down, and open. Press your seam to set the stitches, then press the fabric over and onto the freezer paper. Here's how it looks after it's pressed from both sides. Continue sewing segments in this fashion (align, sew, trim, press), until you've completed your template. Then you're going to want to trim the edges to make sure the template pieces will fit together nicely. Finished sewing, pre-trim. Once the pieces are trimmed, peel of the paper. Do this gently if you've got a lot of bias edges, otherwise you could be in for some warping! Butterfly halves and templates (that I can reuse!) Sew your segments together, and you're done. If you need to make more you can always reuse the templates! I've used some as many as 12 times before I've deemed them not sticky enough. These ones I only needed to use 4 times, and they worked great for each round. Finished butterflies, all nice and uniform! Sharing this over at Late Night Quilter's Tips and Tutorials Tuesday!
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I wrote a foundation paper piecing tutorial a few years ago that was originally a free pattern on Craftsy. Ever since they removed all the patterns I have had it on my list to redo and add it to my blog. The very hot weather and inside time this week has given me the chance to get it done! For the tutorial I am using this easy block which is is 4 1/2" x 9" finished, but you can scale it down (or up) if you wish. You can download the template here. You can find my paper pieced patterns in my Etsy shop. The template can be printed on either letter or A4 paper. The one on the left is printed on normal copy paper, which I find fine to use especially on larger blocks with bigger pieces. It is harder to rip, and I do not like using it when the block has small pieces, but it can be done. So if that is all you have then use it. The one on the left is printed on Foundation paper which I bought at a patchwork shop. It is much easier to rip and use, but it can be expensive. After you have printed off the template cut around it leaving an extra 1/4" or so past the seam allowances. You really don't need any special equipment to do foundation paper piecing. You can get by with a rotary cutter, iron and a quilting ruler. but there are a couple of things I like that make it that little bit easier, such as a glue pen, roller and an 'add a 1/4 inch ruler'. I used rectangular scraps to make my block. I just made sure that they were all bigger than the area I needed to cover. On the wrong side of the fabric place one piece of fabric. Make sure it covers area 1, and extends past the stitching line by at least 1/4". I use a small bit of fabric glue to hold it in place. Place a second piece of fabric on top with the right sides together Pin it in place on the sewing side, and sew on the line. Don't sew over the pin! I set my stitch length to 1.5 or 1.6 on my Bernina, which I think works out to 17 or 18 stitches per inch. Shortening the stitch length ensures that the paper is much easier to rip out at the end. Flip the second piece back over and make sure that it covers area 2. Press it flat. I like to use a roller (bought at a quilt shop) so I don't always have to go to my ironing board. Fold down the paper on the stitching line between sections 2 and 3. Trim the fabric, leaving a 1/4 inch for the seam allowance. You can use a quilting ruler, but I like this 'add a 1/4" ruler' ruler which has a 'lip' that sits perfectly on the paper and you get a perfect 1/4" seam allowance every time. Place the next fabric on top, right sides together. Turn and pin. Sew on the line. Continue covering sections 4-8 until the block is filled. Press the entire block and turn to the sewing side to trim. Trim the paper and fabrics on the outer seam allowance line. Carefully remove the paper. And the block is finished! I made 10 blocks in a pink, grey and red colour way to make this mini-quilt!
This paper piecing tutorial with video will walk you through the paper piece technique. You'll get great results using this technique!
