I use Bonnie Hunter's method of EPP. She bastes her fabric on a card stock template, but does not sew through the template. Later she just clips a thread or two and removes the template. I think her directions are on her website. I have not made a quilt entirely by myself, but I have completed three Grandmother's Flower Garden quilts where the flowers/circles were already made. The first one was begun by my mother-in-law, the second one was a garage sale find, and the third was a set of flowers that were found in a church. The first one was given to my granddaughter, the second one was donated to charity, and the third one was given back to the church.