I am totally befuddled by paper piecing in quilting. I googled it and the couple I looked at were of no help. I looked in the new Clotilde catalog and it looks like you have to buy foundation papers or patterns in order to do paper piecing but I get the feeling that a lot of you make your own. Is there a good tutorial out there that can help me understand this concept. I am new to this board so if this topic has been hashed and rehashed already I apologize. TIA

http://www.quiltingboard.com/search....iecing&u=&s=10

Go to this link and browse. Lots of information has come from members on this board. I love to paper piece:)

OH My...that darn PPing will scare you the first few times....however, never fear...the internet is here!

If you go http://www.quilterscache.com, Marcia has a tute on there that is great!
I personally love Carol Doak! The real QUEEN of paper piecing!
here is a link to her sites FREE patterns and instructions!
http://www.caroldoak.com/free-quilt-patterns.php

I have taught Carol's way for about 8 years now, so if you have any ???? feel free to email me!

i print mine out from a web site with free patterns for paper piecing it is http://www.quilterscache.com

Paper piecing is not difficult once you understand how it works. How about looking at these links and seeing if they make any sense. Hope this helps! Let us know how you get on. Best of luck.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2gK...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjzaX...eature=related

http://www.paperpiecingbasics.com/

Found another link:

http://www.quilterscache.com/StartQu...tingthree.html

Yes I get my patterns online and in many magazines but I think what you are asking is if some of us male our patterns at home without buying the special papers. Yes we do from what I can tell many of us print them out ourselves on copy paper I buy a pack of copy paper at Walmart and print my patterns out and use them all of the time It is probably a no no but it works and I am more apt to have copy paper than foundation paper around when I need it

Go to your library and check out the Carol Doak book that has her tutorial dvd included ... the 50 stars book I think. It is wonderful and will get you started!

I do the same as you and don't have bad results. Also, you can take the thread from your needle and stitch the lines on blank paper and not waste your printer ink. I stitch through several papers at the same time. This way you just need one or two copies printed and it's turned out to be a real savings to me!

Really, OR isn't that far from OK, how about flying on up and tutoring me? It looks terribly confusing but I keep reading how people love it and how easy it is. Well, tonight I am visiting all these suggestions you all have made. Thanks everyone for keeping me entertained.