For those who want to start English Paper Piecing, this post will have all the guide for you. It will be linked to all the tutorials and the fun English Paper Piecing patterns.

 

What is English Paper Piecing?

English paper piecing (EPP) is another wonderful technique for making patchwork quilts. Piecing together fabrics using a paper template. The technique is mainly hand-stitched but there are some ways you can piece the pieces together with a machine too.

In general, these templates are basted with the fabric to form the shape of the fabric pieces before piecing the pieces together. This technique allows an easier and more accurate way to piece together various shapes of fabrics.

One of the popular EPP patterns is the Hexagon flower.

You can make these popular beautiful hexagon flowers and make bigger ones simply by adding more rounds.

And the shapes are not only limited to hexagons. You can see more patterns at the end of this post with more variation of EPP. 

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What is the difference between paper piecing and English paper piecing?

Paper piecing technique is another technique often used in making patchwork quilts. Though the term may seem similar. It is totally a different technique. Paper piecing technique or may also be known as foundation paper piecing (FPP) is similar in terms of using paper as a template but it is done differently.

You can see this post here to see an example of foundation paper piecing. The photo below is an example of Foundation Paper piecing. You can read more about the project HERE>

Do you remove the paper in English paper piecing?

Yes! Unless you use one of the wash-away fusible as the templates. But, since we’re talking about papers here – then the answer is YES. We do have to remove the paper at the end of the process.

Make sure the paper is only removed once all the sides that need to be stitched to another piece are completed. If you remove it too early, it will be difficult to sew the pieces together.

How do you make an English paper piecing template?

There are many ways to make or buy templates. But in simple terms, just cut the papers into shape. You can find how to cut EPP templates efficiently in this post HERE>.

You can also buy laser cut to precision EPP templates in various shapes! Check them out HERE>

English Paper Piecing tutorials:

I have listed below, EPP Tutorials available from this blog for you to get started.

• How to cut EPP Templates

• 5 ways to baste EPP Templates

• 5 ways to stitch shapes together using EPP method

Looking for English Paper Piecing Patterns?

There are many beautiful ones these days, but HERE is a post where I share some of the hot trending ones.

Or you can check out the following links:

EPP patterns on Amazon

Free EPP printable templates

• Hexagon Grandmother Flower + Free Quoted Hexagon Templates
• Free Printable Hexagon EPP Template

It’s week 2 fo the mystery Christmas Quilt-A-Long! This is a free pattern by Fat Quarter Shop and will be released each week together with a video tutorial. 

Check out more details about the quilt-a-long HERE>

This week we have another fun block to make.

Anytime is a great time for candy!

I made two candy wrappers with the fun snow cap fabric and the tiny zig zag aqua. 

You can choose to make all of them with different fabrics, but I made mine accordingly with the pattern, I make two in green and another two in the tiny zig zag aqua.

Aww it’s sewwww cute!

You can easily make a long middle part to make Christmas Crackers! A row of crackers would be a fun table runner.

Can’t wait for week 3!

How about you? Are you sewing along this year’s Mystery Quilt-a-Long?

Grab the free Pattern HERE>

 

I made last year’s Mystery quilt in Winter Colours which you can check out HERE>

This year I am using SweetWater Snowkissed Collection.

You can check out the Sweetwater Snowkissed Christmas fabric collection HERE>

 

I have been working with scraps lately and while working with some tiny bits and bobs of scraps, my head was thinking about making a crumb quilt. 

So while I’m dreaming about this crumb quilts of mine, I thought I’ll share some ideas on how you can make crumb quilts using up your teeny little itty bitty scraps! 

If you’ve never come across a jelly roll rug before, well you’re in for a treat. I am sharing a newly finished jelly roll rug that I just made. 

Another fun quilt-a-long has just started! This time it is the mystery Christmas Quilt-A-Long which usually runs in July. This is a free pattern by Fat Quarter Shop and will be released each week together with a video tutorial. 

Check out more details about the quilt-a-long HERE>

This year, the mystery quilt is called the Christmas Time Quilt-a-Long!

Now, I don’t celebrate Christmas but I do love the season. With all the glitters and decorations, it is always magical. And I love the joyful colours of Christmassy fabrics. 

I have been working hard trying to keep my scraps in control. The more projects we work on and finish, the more scraps we’ll end up with. Today I’m updating a little start to my scrappy ocean wave quilt.

Here’s an update on some of my slow stitching projects including my Home Sweet Home Cross Stitch, Chalk Talk Quilting and Grandmother Flower Garden EPP project. 

Now that I have come back to cross-stitching, I am making more time to sit and enjoy a little bit of hand-stitching or cross-stitching with Audible on or a movie. 

Usually, I also have my little one in my arm watching tv with me too, so my choice of tv would be all the kids move or Blippi. That’s why Audible books are on my ear while we enjoy the cozy times together. Lately, I have been enjoying the more available selections from Audible Plus Catalogue. Some great fiction  selection there too, which makes the subscription much more worth it as we can get more books a month. 

Cute project bags, plastic bags, boxes or baskets?

How do you keep work-in-progress (wips) organized?

I am not sure about you, but I am a multi-project-at-one-time kind of crafter. I love being able to jump from one project to another! It keeps me motivated and excites me. P

But the downside of that, is the amount of things to keep tidy. There’s just so many things that can just be everywhere around the sewing room if things are not well kept together.

Hence, one thing I do is to at least give all of my project a home. When I am not working with them, they have to go back home. All of the related pieces. 

So there are a couple of ways you can keep work in progress at one place, and in this post I’ll share some of my favourite ways.

I finished a fun little Halloween quilt, the BOO crew a while back which was posted HERE with the links to the FREE pattern.

While I was tidying up the scraps leftover, I couldn’t help myself to try out the new paper pad I received from Fat Quarter Shop and use up my scraps right away. These fabrics were leftover from the quilt I made, it is the Stacy Iest Hsu Halloween Collection HERE  and the MODA grunge is Olivenite HERE. 

Using up leftover fabric

I find it easier to use up as much of the fabric and sort them right away before I put them away out of sight. 

There’s a lot of benefit to using up your scraps as much as you can before they are piled on with the other scraps.

For one, you are already working with a good mix of fabric colours and prints. If you make a small scrappy project, it will be quick and easy plus it’ll match your quilt!