What exactly is strip piecing?
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What exactly is strip piecing?
I hear it all the time, and I probably do it myself, but I don't know what that term means. Also, what is I-Spy? Thank you!
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Just my viewpoint but to me, Eleanor Burns is the queen of strip piecing. It's when strips are sewn together then cut apart. The pieces are then sewn into blocks. It's a big timesaver compared to cutting out little pieces and sewing them together. I spy is using different or a busy novelty prints and playing a game with a child like, I spy..... an alligator. Then the child finds it.
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I've always thought of strip piecing as any patchwork that starts out by cutting strips then sub cutting into smaller patches, often after sewing 2 or more strips together first.
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Strip piecing - if you take two jelly roll strips and sew them together then cut out pieces from that - that is strip piecing - so if you want a four patch you sew the two strips together then cut your patches from the sewn together strip - same idea with 9 patch too.
I - spy - I would say that is a quilt made with novelty fabrics so you can "spy" different objects in your quilt - usually a child's quilt.
I - spy - I would say that is a quilt made with novelty fabrics so you can "spy" different objects in your quilt - usually a child's quilt.
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