UK Quilters
Yep, that was football and hexagons in the same sentence! If you have been really bored, you may have found out that a typical football consists of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. I say ‘typical’ football, as the older ones were made up of rectangular-ish shapes and the latest one used for the World Cup…
As you may have seen on Pinterest or Instagram, English paper-piecing is currently taking the quilting world by storm, and in particular fussy-cut EPP. In this technique, each of the paper shapes are cut from identical areas of a fabric, often creating a kaleidoscope-type pattern. This technique is often seen with straight edged shapes such…
Hello and thanks for stopping by again to read the news and views from my quilting world. I’m still trying to keep up with my aim to spend an hour each evening on one of my own projects #personalprojectchallenge2018 and hopefully by the end of March, this will increase to one full day each week.…
This is the third post in my series about EPP. This is looking at the type of stitch you might want to use to join your pieces. Traditionally EPP uses a whip stitch, but there are now many alternatives and it’s really about personal choice and what works best for you. What you want is…
BOM=Block of the Month There are a lots of different ways of doing a BOM. In its most basic form, a blogger will release a different blog each month with a tutorial, you source the materials and put them together. Now, they’ve grown from that with shops and designers offering BOM’s at what can sometime…
Many people use prepared templates for EPP, but if you want to break out and do your own thing, my preferred method is to print from the computer and glue the printout onto freezer paper with a glue stick. Once ironed, I have a nice weight template that irons on to fabric. Here is the…
English Paper Piecing is a wonderful piecing technique which lets us piece together any odd shaped pieces. If we can draw it, we can piece it. One of the favourite and simplest shapes to draw in the past was the hexagon. This is because it is really easy to draw with a ruler and compass.…
I’d heard of freezer paper (FP) but didn’t quite know how to use it so I was a little perplexed as where to start. The box gave me some examples of how I could use it for appliqué and a web search brought up a plethora of tutorials on the internet, including a few for…
Are you looking for a lovely long-term project to get stuck into over 2018, maybe something you can do in front of the TV or on a long journey? Have you heard of curved English paper-piecing? Let me introduce you to Sewmotion’s Curve Motion Medallion Quilt. Having made one too many hexagons, I started to…
I received a Sewline Fabric Glue pen to review. The pen arrived in a clear plastic package which also included a handy glue refill. The pen is a nice size and easy to use. The glue stick its self is a blue colour and the glue was visible once on the fabric. When the…
