English Paper Piecing is a method of sewing a single shape of blocks together, such as hexagons for a Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt. Many templates of a sturdy sort of paper are cut to the finished shape and size of the hexagon. Each hexagon is then basted to the paper template with the seam allowances wrapped to the back side. After enough of these are basted, the basted hexs are whipstitched together in the pattern. Once all the sides of the shape are secured to other pieces, the basting threads and the paper is removed to be reused on another block.
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