what is a good paper peiceing book

Anything by Carol Doak

Absolutely !

One that you can get from your local library ;)

If you don't want a book there are lots of free paper piecing patterns and instructions on the internet. I've gotten lots of great stuff that way. I agree about books by Carol Doak. She's great!

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There's an Alex Anderson book for about $10 + s/h

Anita Grossman Solomon is considered the founding mother of paper piecing. You can get her book used for $1.99 + s/h

Any Carol Dorak book is a good investment - clear, concise directions. Also check out her website for good tips. enjoy paper piecing - it is addictive - I'm warning you :)

Carol Doak is excellent but so is anything by Nancy Mahoney. She was in my quilt guild when I lived in Florida and I got to see her beautiful quilts up close. Here is a picture of one I paper pieced a few years ago. I received a second place for it in a quilt show. it was so much fun to make and had over 2000 pieces in it. You will love paper piecing!

I certainly agree with the majority.. Carol Doak, she has some very good books.

Carol Doak is the best IMHO, but with paper piecing be warned; you either love it or hate it. Hope you are one of the ones who love it.

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.

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.

Simple printer paper works. No need to buy special paper.

Is this one of the books that has stain glass stars?? Your quilt it beautiful.. I am getting the bug to try my hand.. have signed up for a class..

I agree they are not complicated

You should check what your library has - you could buy a book after that if you find it really great. Also, check out Marcia Hohn's website, http://www.quilterscache.com/QuiltBlocksGalore.html . Many of her free block patterns are paper-pieced and she has general instructions to introduce you to paper-piecing as well. Once you do one or two blocks, you won't need to spend the money on an introductory book. Marcia has hundreds of blocks for you to select from. Then you could use your saved money to buy more advanced ones, like Carol Doak's "50 Fabulous Paper-pieced Stars" or Peggy Martin's "Quick Strip Paper-piecing". Some blocks can only be done well with paper-piecing techniques so enjoy your journey.

I learned by following the instructions in a book by Valori Wells, "Radiant New York Beauties". That book has 14 paper pieced projects in it. There are instructions in there for enlarging the patterns as well as close-ups of the quilts to give you some ideas for fmq. I've never used special paper to print the pattern on, just reg. paper that goes in my printer. When I've made blocks larger than what will fit in my printer, then I've used tracing paper I bought in a pad (19" X 24" ). Just used a thin Sharpie marker. It tears off easier than reg. paper.

DeeBooper, that quilt leaves me speechless. Lovely!

I agree with everyone Carol Doaks is the best. And it is true, you will either love it or hate it, I'm a pp lover.

Judy Mathieson has good books as well.

I just took a class (my first in paper piecing) from Peggy Martin and her instructions seem to be pretty clear. You might want to check out one of her books.

Quilterscache.com has good instructions for paper piecing.