I print mine out and then scan them for extra copies

Very Nice Love It!!!

lol been there

I love to do paper piecing. I started out on really cheap muslin. leaving it in with the quilt. As time went on I purchased the pattern paper from office supply store. Then I changed to tissue paper. love it the best so far. You have to use a light box or a storm door as light box( the sunshine behind the glass helps to makes your design possible) tape ur design to glass then trace it to tissue paper,I have found tissue paper is not as dulling on the needle, but it can get messy if ur not carefull. Always have tape available....for when it come off b4 ur ready.

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I love that and what a wonderful way to use up all those scraps I've been saving! Thanks for sharing.

Thats so cool ........you do a great job!!!!

It is fun isn't it. But not my cup of tea.

To do a crazy quilt I like to use a muslin foundation. I cut blocks of the muslin of the size blocks I want and then start sewing on my scraps or other pieces that I want on there. For me, I think crazy quilt blocks are a whole lot easier to make than PP blocks.

Seems like some people are talking paper piecing but meanwhile he started out talking about foundation piecing
which showed scraps on a piece of cloth - crazy quilting
To me it's two different things.

I have lots of the "fabric" that bed ruffles are attached to. It is not cotton, but is rather some sort of polyester that has little tiny holes in it. I know one would not use this as backing, but I wonder if it would not work great as foundation for piecing.
I wouldn't think the melting in a fire would be an issue as it would be inside the quilt, and the quilt would have to burn first before the fire got to the foundation fabric. What are your opinions on this, foundation piecers? I haven't done any yet but do hope to try it this year.

So does that mean you basically sew the pieces to a light backing/foundation fabric? Sounds better than getting the papers removed, but unless it's a crazy quilt, you'd need to somehow get the lines onto that foundation paper, right?

Great blocks and patterns.

Great job..something I have tried and can not conker. :thumbdown:

Oops - on the last sentence, I meant foundation "fabric".
Thanks.

Very nice. I really want to try paper piecing

Love your colors! I tried paper piecing for the first time this week and I think I have a new addiction as well!! It is so fun and easy, can't believe I didn't try it sooner!!

I would think it would be fine and a great way to use up something that would just go to the landfill. :)

Beautiful blocks !! Love the colors !!

I also love crazy quilts. I have an old one my grandmother made. My mother and I are in the process of making on with silks as I just love the shiny - ness of them. My mom loves to embroider so ours has all the fancy hand stitching on it. Makes it slow going but it is turning out beautiful. Will post pic of first section that is done soon as I can find the darn charger for my camera.

Yes to Wildyard's post - I'd use anything for foundation piecing especially if it was free or cheap.

yikes I was afraid someone would ask, LOL. I haven't done it in quite awhile so without it in front of me to look at it while I explain it ... the best that I remember is that you fold the paper under and stitch along the fold but NOT on the paper. I made several blocks this way for a group project, all of us used the same technique, and it was wonderful not to have to rip off the paper when we were done.

anyone else here know what I'm talking about, maybe using this technique yourselves?

warm quilt hugs, sue in CA

I love PP. I belong to Carol Doaks group and she is always giving us new patterns.

I took mine at Pine Needles. Also I know you talked about doing the decorative stitch, they have a way you can put the block in your embroidery hoop and it will do all the stitches for you when using that specific foundation pattern. Pretty slick!

Anyway I've now printed out numerous patterns as well as ordered a few, might make a sample block quilt when I'm done and then try....GULP a log cabin! :)

~m

Well I wasn't sure if it's 2 different things or not to be honest. :) I did know if they called it "foundation" piecing because you can choose the type of foundation you want to use (Paper or Fabric) or if they were 2 completely different things. (Remember I'm new to this)

I guess with fabric you don't have to tear away the paper, that's nice, but the pre-printed cloth foundations are around $8-$10 a yard, so that adds some expense to your quilt. But I would be interested in others opinions as well. So when I figure out which I like better I call it by it's proper name. :)

I have those exact same fabric foundation blocks. Have finished 16, which all the fabric I have in the line of fabric I am using. One thing I did was print more of the pattern on muslin to have extra. If you cut your muslin 8 1/2 by 11 and a piece of freezer paper same size, iron it together, it will go through an ink jet printer. Make sure it is exact size and the top that feeds through the printer is flat.

Interesting. Looks great.

Would you tell us how to do paper/foundation peicing without sewing thru the paper? Thanks

You make it look so easy...I have always been intimidated at the thought of paper piecing or appliqueing

THANK YOU SO FOR THE INFO ON PAPER! EQ6 and EQ7 have a good selection of paper patterns for crazy quilt blocks. I am now using the scraps from a hand dyed top for interest strips for the backing, two and a half inch by ten crazy patches.

Michael - any more pictures of your block progress? Love your first blocks.