Originally Posted by Cornish Maid
Oh help! I'd never heard of paper piecing before - being English I thought it meant English paper piecing - you know, the little hexagons all sewn together. So I have two questions as I gird up my loins to get started!
1. On the cutting sheet there is a 1" square drawn, but when I printed it out that 1"square was 7/8th" out. Does that mean that all the pattern pieces will be out too, and my finished block will be too small? How can I correct this? I have printed it out at 101% (as it displays on computer) rescaled to 100%, still the same and rescaled to 103% and still the same problem.
2. How do you cut out the fabric? I usually use a rotary cutter. I see there are some sizes on the cutting instructions, do they include the seam allowance? Or do you just grab a big piece of fabric, pin it on and trim afterwards - isn't that going to waste loads?
Sorry if these questions seem so obvious, but can you guess I have no idea how to do this, (that's after watching the tutorials!) Hope some of you are still reading this bit of the board cos I really would like to learn this method. Thanks.
Cornish Maid, I am sorry you're having problems getting this to print right. I am not sure what to tell you if rescaling isn't working. I know a lot of people had problems with the Jan 1 house BOM and there were lots of different instructions in that thread about rescaling and getting the pattern to print out right. You might try looking through that thread. It is
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-86667-1.htm
Hopefully there will be something there that will help you.
You can either cut the fabric with a rotary cutter or with scissors. Jerrie has provided the sizes you need for the different pieces in this month's star. Some people have said the pieces are a little scant, so you might want to cut them just a touch bigger. The sizes Jerrie has provided do include the seam allowances.
Quilter's Cache has a tutorial on regular paperpiecing. You can look at it here:
http://www.quilterscache.com/StartQu...tingthree.html
Hopefully this will be of help to you. Let us know if you need more help.