Originally Posted by
Cheladamama
I am quite the newbie here so don't know what PPing or Eq8 is. It's like all those abbreviations people use and I have to try to figure out!
PPing is Paper Piecing (or sometimes refereed to as foundation piecing) A block is broken down into sewable sections and printed out. Those pieces of paper are then used as a foundation to construct the block. Fabric is placed on the back and sewn in the seam lines on the front - when the block is completed the paper is removed (carefully) and the resulting sewn block is the size of the "foundation" that was initially printed out. I have included a pic below of sashing that I did with paper piecing.
EQ8 is "Electric Quilt 8", which is a a computer program where you can design blocks and entire quilts. It is the program that I used to give you the "ugly" cutting numbers for your 10" block. In addition to cutting directions, EQ8 can provide the user with yardage for quilts and the ability to print out foundation paper for paper piecing. I used EQ to create those pieces for the sashing in my picture
edited to add - if you would like to try to paper piece those blocks at 10" I would be happy to print that out for you to try!!