How to English Paper Piece- Quilting technique
Rob meets up with quilting and painting artist extraordinaire, Caroline Hwang, for a tutorial on English paper piecing. Easy to do and beautiful- see how Caroline interprets it into her artisitc and modern quilts.
Cut out a hexagon of paper and a piece of fabric. You can use any kind of fabric for this project, any recyclable material, which you'll also cut out in a hexagon but with a quater inch seam allowance on all sides. After that, pin the paper to the fabric and try to center it closely as possible.
Your going to fold in two of the sides, make sure the corners are folded in as neatly as possible.
Take your threaded needle, you don't have to knot it and at each corner your going to do one stitch- for every corner. When you get around all the corners, you're done with your first piece. Repeat for as many pieces as you want.
Next is sewing the pieces together. Place them face to face, line up the sides together and sew a whip stitch very close to the edge so you don't see the thread when it's fully opened up. Repeat to every edge, it's ok to fold the paper and manipulate the peices to sew them together.
Once, finished take out the paper and attach the pieces with a basic applique technique.
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post in the blog
read and post in the forums
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and tons more!
Of course they are going to typo every now and again SHUT UP! If you know the difference between a pentagon and a hexagon then good for you. There are pictures to work off of anyway!!
*breaths heavily* sry this has been bugging me for awhile now.
My aunt used to make this, so its a pretty cool project. Good Work !
And Pfft to Josi for being a miss-know-it-all. Just because you can differentiate pentagon and hexagon doesn't make you better. Re-read your comment because you made a few grammatical errors yourself. *humph*
hi josi-
don't you think you are being just a tad over critical. have you ever made a mistake?
if you are perfect notify guiness books because you'll be the first ever.
the quilting artist used the word pentagon mistakenly in her tutorial. kendra simple takes what is said in the videos and transcribes them. she tried to fix them so chill out.
oop. let me fix my typo...simply before you get on our case about that also.
Go Corinne! Kick his ass!
OK, folks, if we're going to be picky, and even rude, about grammar, punctuation and spelling on a crafting tutorial, I'll put in my two cents' worth.
Corinneleigh, sentences need capital letters at the beginning. Proper names need to be capitalized, too. As for "hi josi-", Hi needs a capital, and so does Josie, and a comma is needed between them. After Josi a period, not a hyphen, is needed. Also, it's "oops", not "oop".
Now, Josi, where did you learn the fine art of "assisting" people in finding their typos and errors (hexagon vs. pentagon)?
I'll add a humble correction that you two missed. "Quater inch" should be "quarter inch".
Nice try - but there is still another instance of pentagon in this post. As well, there is another incorrect usage of "embroidery" on the other page, too.
It shows an utter lack of respect for your readers if you aren't proofreading your work. How can trust that your measurements or instructions are accurate when you don't even know what terms to use (pentagon vs hexagon, embroidery vs embroider)...?!?!
Those pieces you are working with are *hexagons*, not *pentagons* (as indicated in the text).
FABULOUS information! I'll be linking.