when I first started to learn pp,I hated it, It felt backwards,wasteful of fabric and so very slow. Now I love it. so stick to it and learn it. C Doake helped me.

Carol Doak definitely.

And true, you will love it or hate it. I love it and the precision you can get.

I love the posted quilt from Nancy Mahoney. Will have to look into that.

Check out Marcia Hohn's site with tons of free patterns.

http://www.quilterscache.com

Carol Doak also has a yahoo group - you can learn a ton of things there.

I love Carol Doaks books - some of her books even have CD's in them to make things even easier!!

Totally agree with Carol Doak. I started out with her dvd and have since bought a couple of her books. I also joined her yahoo group and it is so informative with a lot of free blocks

carol doak is great and youcan also get many pp's blocks and quilts off the internet. there is also Jinney Buyers website she does great work.

Carol Doak is great and she has an awesome dvd that takes you step by step. I don't care for her paper as it is hard to see through, but you can use vellum, or plain tracing paper

A newbie question...what's the difference between paper piecing and machine piecing? Sorry if this is stupid but I would like to know.

The difference is when you are paper piecing you are sewing your fabric to a design actually on the paper, once your design or block is all sewn then you tear away the paper and you have perfect points since you sew on the lines.

Machine piecing is referring to using your sewing machine as opposed to hand sewing.

And yes you are still machine piecing with paper piecing, i hope I didn't confuse you more. Check out Carol Doak website you can see examples.