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Happy Birthday, Chris. Hope your day is delightful...
i read mandy's post about EPP, i lightly baste the papers to the fabric. i try not to sew through the edges. i can reuse my papers quite a few times. i undo the basting and pop out the papers after all the edges on the piece are now inside seams. that way, i only have papers on the outside of my piece
you have done some nice work.
Hi Chris, Thanks for the friend invite. Would love to be friends. I see you have the same passion for applique as i do. I love hand and machine applique but hand applique is my favorite.
Your quilts are fabulous, do you make up your own patterns? i like them a lot. Carolyn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDrTVi0jk6w
then a couple more pages that i liked after my vivit to them
http://www.amygunson.com/Sewing/Paper%20Piecing.pdf
http://tqanews.blogspot.com/2011/01/english-paper-piecing-tutorial.html
both of these are well written/illustrated with good "comments" esp the second one about diff ways for diff stitchers.
other than an initial quilt class that mainly focused on learning to use rotary cutter & strip cutting for simple quilts, i have learned out of books and now the internet.
am going to also include a link to the search page where i found the above links. there are lots af links here...i only posted my favorite go thru and see if something u like better. also, all the illustrations of basted pieces look exactly like basted pieces in my collections of antique paper pieced peices, blocks etc ...paper and basting not removed..that is done after sewing shapes together. have fun...i have not done a lot...just experiments to see what it is like, therefore sending links from "experts" instead. happy playing/experimenting/learning!!
Thanks Chris. The pears were fusible with machine applique & fun to do.
Chris you asked if I had any tips for English Paper Piecing, the best I can give is to double stitch you beginning and end of every seam, it's time consuming, but better than everything coming undone again. Then secondly, tack through the paper, I didn't on mine and the papers started coming out by themselves, what a mess, the hexs lost their shape and I have to go and put all the paper back in. I used not proper quilting cotton to make my quilt but old summer dresses of mine that I think are a polycotton mix and the fabric is not weighty enough to hold it's shape. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say and that these tips help. If I had to do another, I would use quilters cotton fabric and quilter cotton thread and double stitch each of my seams, it saves time in the end.
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