DeeBooper I love your quilt, it is beautiful. I just finished my first paper piecing project. I LOVED it. It is a little time consuming but the results are beautiful with paper piecing. I made a Welcome banner that has a different block to change out each month. I just finished December's block so I could hang it up now.

I have the Carol Doak DVD. I have to to see something done I can't do much with books. After watching it I was ready to go and did a great job I think. The DVD was so well explained and I could stop it and rewind if I needed more help.

Now I am confident that I could do it on my own no problem, it's that easy to learn. You won't regret learning this technique the results are amazing. Good luck!

Definitely Carol Doak books!

And I agree, that you will either love or hate paper piecing. It is very precise though especially for difficult pointy patterns....and sometimes the only way you could make a pattern come out.

If you are a visual learner, Carol Doak has book/video combos too :D:D:D

I agree!

#1 best and I'm one of her biggest fans.Go join her Yahoo group.Every month she puts out a new block free to download.You can ask questions and get any kind of help you need.She has a web sight also.

I just love Carol Doak, I saw here last year and she is such a sweet and funny lady. She is the Queen of paper-piecing, I have her books and I refer to them everytime I do a paper pieced project, you can't go wrong with her books!

I love paper piecing! You can even get some great patterns from paper panache an awesome website, even some freebies.

great link here
for some freebies.... I save links but haven't attempted paper piecing!...


http://www.paperpanache.com/free/gue.../guestarc1.htm

Hi Rhoda, I am new at this message board and you are the first message I have responded to. I teach foundation paper piecing. I have about 6 books and they are all good.The 2 biggest ones I have are:
"300 Paper Piecing Quilt Blocks" by Carol Doak. It comes with a CD of all designs you can keep on your computer and then just print anyone of them when you want to use the design. it is by "That Patchwork Place" publisher.$29.95 .
101 Log Cabin Blocks by Linda Causee. ASN Publishing.Book #4181
$18.95 :-) I will give you the names of the other books I have when I can dig them out of the pile. Marty Byrnes Mesa, AZ

Carol on her web sight you can buy her books some have her CD's and some don't.I bought one of her CD"s that has the patterns in it,bought it with a gift card and it came within three or four day's,she has at least one book on sale a month.