english paper piecing

Pink - RSC2021 from Samelia's Mum

Firstly, happy birthday to me! I've had a really lovely day with my loves. CONTINUED (Keep Reading) »

added by Anorina @SameliasMum 5 days, 10 hours ago. under english paper piecing , epp , hexies , rsc2021

Big Flower Quilt.....Progress from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

Remember this Big Hexy Flower?

I chose these 4 lime green fabrics

for the background hexies...

I put the light green background hexies

up on the design wall with the BIG Flowers:

they look NEON green......eeek!

After looking at this on the design wall

for the last 2 months, I took them all down.

I found a richer, calmer green fabric

and wrapped it around the hexy papers:

Ahhh....much better.

There is a bed sheet under the hexagons.

They will be pinned onto the sheet.

Then I can keep them in order as I

hand piece the hexagons ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 3 weeks, 4 days ago. under english paper piecing , hand pieced , take-a-long quilt

2020......Highlights from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

A look back at 2020...

January 2020

I needed a fresh start for 2020.

My sewing area went from this:

to this:

February 2020

Calving Season begins @ the Kessi Ranch

Playing with Rayon Threads

March 2020

The Turkey Vultures are BACK

Calving Season....continues:

Fertilizing the Hay Fields

Playing with Improv

April 2020

Improv Technique 2

Improv Technique 3

Improv Technique 4

Improv Technique 5

Improv Technique 6

Improv Technique 7

Improv Technique 8

Sunflower Quilt Finished

May 2020

Zipper Pulls

Working Cattle.....Spring Round Up

June 2020

Improv Quilt Top

Messy Painted Canvas

July 2020

Tassel Necklaces

Haying Season ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 month ago. under bags , beads , birds , cattle cows farm , english paper piecing , face masks , free motion quilting , hand pieced , horses , improv , orange peel , painted canvas , pumpkin seed quilt , quilt retreat , stil , thread shed , travel

Wheels on the Cart! from Applique 'n Patch Quilting

Well ..... all the wheels/stars are done! Whew, that was a job trying to select fabrics. My friend, Darlene, asked me if it was designed to have a row of darker hour glass blocks above and below the wheel/stars? Can you see those rows? Oh yes, that was intentional!

Hour glass blocks are starting to be sewn together.

Since there are so many seams, they are being pressed open. Less bulk at the joins.

See the beige fabric in the wedge part of the wheel/star? There is none left. There are enough scraps to make a couple 1-1 ...

added by Rose Marie 2 months ago. under english paper piecing , wheels on the cart

Almost Ancient: English Paper Pieced Mosaics with Cheryl Lynch's New Fabric from Gefilte Quilt

My newest finished piece!

It's a tabletopper or wallhanging, about 20" across, made up of seven English Paper Pieced (EPP) blocks. The faux mosaic fabric - those little pieces aren't separate, they're printed - are from a fascinating new collection by my friend, quilt designer Cheryl Lynch.

In recent years, Cheryl's been designing mosaic quilt patterns, made by cutting fabrics into small pieces. But even more recently, she designed fabric with the look of complex mosaics - but you can finish in a fraction of the time.

Cheryl gifted me with these FQs.

First I cut out a bunch ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 2 months, 1 week ago. under english paper piecing , epp , hexagon , hexagon star quilts

Guy Fawkes Night from Wendy's Quilts and More

Last week was Halloween, this week it's Guy Fawkes.

Guy Fawkes was a much bigger deal than Halloween in New Zealand when I was growing up. Most families bought their own fireworks and let off some sky rockets, Catherine wheels, flower pots, and double happys in the back yard. Sparklers were just for little kids!

Then sales of fireworks to the public became restricted, and city councils started putting on large displays at public venues. In Wellington they used to put a barge in the harbour and let off massive fireworks for about 15 minutes. However, because it's ...

added by Wendy @ Wendysquiltsandmore 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under ballet avec kaffe fassett , ballet with kaffe , ballet with kaffe fassett , english paper piecing , kaffe fassett , millefiori quilt , millefiori quilts 2 , willyne hammerstein

English Paper Pieced Coaster Tutorial: Finish a Block, Enjoy a Fantasy Euro-Vacation! from Gefilte Quilt

Are you a wannabe traveler, sitting at home, while your muscles and your miles (frequent flier) stagnate?

This project can brighten your days and remind you of better times and more interesting places.

It's an English Paper Pieced Euro-coaster, upon which we can place our demitasse of home-brewed espresso, or perhaps a pot of Earl Grey.

Put another way, this tutorial shows how I used fabric from Paris, and one of the blocks in my new English Paper Piecing book, "Hexagon Star Quilts," to make a coaster. It would also work as a hanging ornament. You can adapt this ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 3 months, 1 week ago. under coasters , english paper piecing , france , paris

English Paper Piecing....BIG Flowers from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

Remember these JUMBO fabric flowers ?

The flowers were created with some

leftover hexagons from the quilt below...

I pieced two of these quilt tops three years ago.

I had orphan fabric covered hexagons

in the bottom of my sewing box.

Here it is three years later

and I am stitching on those hexagons again.

I have 30 hexy flowers finished so far...

I decided on lime green hexagons for the background...

Four different shades of lime green...

I cleaned off the design wall and started

pinning up hexagons...

I think the lime green is working

in the background...

A few ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 3 months, 1 week ago. under english paper piecing , hand pieced , take-a-long quilt

Pandemic Porch Quilt Show Launch! from Gefilte Quilt

This idea isn't original to me - hanging a different quilt outside every day to entertain pandemic walkers. A quilter friend in Louisiana did it first - I saw from her posts that she and her neighbors were enjoying it. Then I heard about members of a quilt guild in Northern California, who showed off their quilts at the same time, so folks could follow a map to visit them.

Even then I might not have bothered, because hanging a quilt is a schlep! But then I needed to bring my hanging rack into our house's front room, for a ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 3 months, 1 week ago. under english paper piecing , hexagon

Wedding Ring Problems from a daily dose of fiber

I always have multiple projects going in all the fiber crafts that I like to do. In the quilting arena, I do machine sewing or quilting during the day. At night, I sew on my latest hexie project (trying to finish the Halloween themed quilt) or I do English Paper Piecing. During the last few months, I must admit to buying a lot of paper pieces for a variety of EPP designs. And none of them have been easy patterns to do…

I’ve been gluing and sewing double wedding ring arcs for weeks and fiddling with layouts. Here is ...

added by debmoyes 3 months, 2 weeks ago. under applique , double wedding ring quilt , english paper piecing , hand piecing , quilt design , quilting (Comments)

Nearly Completed EPP Monogram Block + Backing, Binding Fabrics Selected for Welcome Home, Baby Quilt from Cheeky Cognoscenti

You guys, as soon as this pandemic is over and the quilt shows start up again, I need to sign up for an in-person English Paper Piecing (EPP) class. I am happy with how my EPP monogram block came out, but I'm pretty sure it should not have taken me this long to sew just the one block:

EPP Monogram Stitched and Trimmed

That's what I miss most about live-taught classes -- the individual feedback you get from the instructor looking at your work up close and saying things like "When your stitches get that small, you're not ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under english paper piecing , kaffe fassett , kona solids , letter home , patchwork

English Paper Piecing and Tractor Work... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

In the evenings I have been doing

some hand stitching...

English Paper Piecing.....Hexagons

Batik Fabrics

These are jumbo sized Hexagons:

They are very large and

the stitching goes quickly !

I spread them all out on the floor tonight

to see what colors I need...

The chair helps you realize

just how BIG these flowers are !

8:00 this morning:

The Cowboy is hooking implements up

to the John Deere tractor...

The ground has already been plowed and harrowed.

The roller packers are hooked up today.

They compact and press the soil down and

prepare it for seeding...

This is ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under cattle , english paper piecing , farm , hand pieced , take-a-long quilt

My AQS QAL "Letter Home" Continues, Complicated With Some English Paper Piecing from Cheeky Cognoscenti

I'm making some headway with my baby boy quilt NewFO! I haven't cut out the four Wasabi (greenish yellow) QSTs yet, but I'm almost done piecing the rest of the blocks for this "quick and easy" project.

Piecing is in Progress!

I changed my mind about foundation paper piecing my center monogram block, too. I just could not abide with those extra seams that I would have in the center of my "C" if I did FPP, so this block will be my second ever attempt at English paper piecing (EPP).

FPP Version, with Extra Seams in ...

added by Rebecca Grace 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under aqs , english paper piecing , eq8 , kona solids , letter home

English Paper Piecing and Plowing... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

On Mondays I spend the day with the

Harlan Valley Quilters

@ the Quilt Palace

I brought along the Horse Panel

and put it up on the design wall...

This is my little corner of the sewing room...

I also brought along the border/frame

for the Horse Panel...

The hexagon papers need to stay in the

outer edge of the borders.....for now.

The borders are pinned up around the panel.

I need to do some measuring and tweeking

before I can begin the applique' work...

It is good to see it up on the wall.

Then I had to ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under english paper piecing , farm , hand pieced , horses , take-a-long quilt

Hand Piecing and Covering Hay Bales... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

I am making progress on the

Horse Quilt Panel

English Paper Pieced.....Borders

I finished the 4th border last week...

Last evening I pieced the 4 borders together

which creates a frame around the horse panel...

I put a chair in the photo so you can see

the actual size of the piece.

My next opportunity, I will applique' this frame

to the horse quilt panel.

Most of the hay bales we made last summer

have been stored in all the barns...

The rest of them are stored outdoors...

It is time to get them covered:

We use large sheets ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under english paper piecing , farm , hand pieced , take-a-long quilt

Turning Lines Into Circles for Curved English Paper Piecing from Gefilte Quilt

What do these English Paper Pieced blocks from my new book, "Hexagon Star Quilts," have in common?

Answer: They're all straight lines. I've always been curve-averse, and although I've done plenty of English Paper Piecing in recent years, almost everything I've made with the technique has had straight lines only.

But quarantine is an opportunity to try new things (assuming you don't have an essential job, young children, and/or a sourdough fixation). So a couple of weeks ago, I plunged into curved EPP in a big way. It turned out to be mostly easier ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 4 months ago. under english paper piecing , epp , hexagon , scrap project , solid fabric , templates

Is it Summer yet? from Wendy's Quilts and More

This week I had a little play with English Paper Piecing.

I've had these gorgeous ice cream prints for a few months now, and I decided I would just start playing around with them and see where it leads me. I cut and basted some other combinations while I was at it.

I don't have a master plan yet, I'm just going to experiment with them. That's why I chose to do English Paper Piecing rather than hand piecing. These blocks could be floating around for a while, and they will keep better with the raw ...

added by Wendy @ Wendysquiltsandmore 4 months, 1 week ago. under english paper piecing , epp , queenstown , ruby star society

My Pandemic Quilt 2020 - Part 2 from Red Pepper Quilts

A Finished Quilt

My Pandemic Quilt - Grandmother's Flower Garden Quilt | © Red Pepper Quilts 2020

Click on any image for a larger view.

My Pandemic Quilt is finished and I have lots of photos to share with you today. Our Covid situation is improving, and we are keenly anticipating the lifting of some restrictions that has seen us at home for what seems like all year. It does mean I have had lots of time to reflect, ponder, prioritise, and of course sew. There have been some dark days, but we're optimistic, grateful for family, friends, and that Spring is finally here to help lift our spirits.

Grandmother's Flower Garden Quilt © Red Pepper Quilts 2020

I am pretty happy ...

added by Red Pepper Quilts - Rita Hodge 4 months, 1 week ago. under 2020 finished quilts , english paper piecing , grandmother's flower garden quilt , hexagons , kona cotton , solid fabric

Hand Piecing, Pears and Wild Fires... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

The English Paper Piecing continues

on this Horse Quilt Panel...