#english paper piecing

[pebblethief]

⋆ ｡ ° ✩ Starquilt ✩ ° ｡ ⋆

38"x39.5" English paper piecing - all handsewn

[quiltingwitch]

Swords for a sword lover, finally complete ⚔️

[liefst]

all 36 flower blocks for my english paper piecing quilt :)

[inthemains]

Another one of my EPP quilted pieces I finished recently. This was originally going to be a larger piece in combination with the other one I did (see here) as a large panel, but I decided they would work better as independent projects.

This was my first foray into non-hexagonal paper piecing as well as designing my own EPP patterns and I've certainly learned a lot. Very tricky to get the pieces to work sometimes, but easy enough to design and fun to work on. I'd love to pattern out a full sized quilt using this style, but I imagine it would be much more difficult to complete. We'll see!

Thanks for looking :)

[bluedesignwall]

A small beginning on squaring up the big blue star hexie quilt. It is nice to get back to some hand stitching.

[quiltedpupper]

The texture. The colors. The memories. I don't think there's a single thing I dislike about this quilt.

This quilt is made of ~2500 1" hexagons using the English Paper Piecing method. The fabrics have been collected across my years of crafting. Some are from my mom. Some are from the very first quilt I made when I was 11. I hand sewed every single hexagon together and then, because I'm completely batty, I hand quilted the echo lines that hold the layers together.

I've worked on this quilt for 23 months. In those stitches are memories I will never forget. This quilt has seen me through my wedding, the death of two grandparents, two miscarriages, one ectopic pregnancy, the loss of my childhood dog, the acquiring of my second dog, half of the COVID pandemic, and 7.5 months of my current pregnancy. To say this is priceless would be an understatement. I hope everyone enjoys looking at it as much as I do, and also can find healing and happiness through their art.

[raggednorth]

I still have a lot of basting to do, but I got impatient and wanted to get something sewn together.

[cormorant-red]

My second English paper piecing project is done!! Modeled by @solmicans, the birthday girl recipient. All hand-sewn, started in May and finished last week, just in time to start spending all my free time on a KAL instead.

[nonasuch]

Finished a quilt top! This is for my cousin’s new baby. It’s a mix of EPP and machine piecing — I paper pieced the hexagons, added corners to make them rectangles, and machine pieced the borders to get 10” squares. Now I gotta decide how to quilt it.

[carlinstitches]

I could learn how to flatback stitch so the seams are seamless, but since I like the charm of visible stitching, I've been working to improve my consistency instead.

[tru-makes-quilts]

The Emily Dickinson Museum Collection

"This fabric is typical of the mid-19th century. The fabric is dress silk with examples of silk satins, silk taffetas, and silk brocades. Plaids were popular during this time. Bright purple pieces are an example of early synthetic dyes - the first synthetic dye, purple mauve, was invented in 1856-7. The jewel-tone colors are other examples of early synthetic dyes. The quilt squares with warp print fabric (pink flowers on white ground) were probably created in the 1860s or later since warp print was popular in the 1850s. This type of quilt work (quilt squares with paper backing) is called template pieced patchwork. The hexagon pieces might be earlier than the square pieces." (source)

[pebblethief]

starquilt progress! 3/5 parts done :)

[quiltingwitch]

Does the sword lady ad even exist anymore? I was getting kind of attached to her.

[vafibrearts]

A few more Ice Cream Soda blocks pieced and I'm so happy with how they're turning out!

[inthemains]

Haven’t been able to draw, so all my creative energy has been going into sewing instead

Here’s a decorative EPP piece I worked on last month for a family member.

[bluedesignwall]

And here it is all laid out on the lounge room floor. The next step is to stitch the units together. While I am doing that I will be thinking about how to square it up. Still a long way to go on this project but I feel like I have reached a real mile stone finishing the last diamond.