Paper Piecing
 

I have done my first paper piecing and really love it! I have sworn now to only do paper piecing from now on!
My question is what or who has a great book with paper piecing patterns in it, that is a good one for me to get. The person who showed me how to do this had the Carol Doak book. That was okay, but I'm not into doing the flowers or baskets right now. Are there others that you would recommend?

I love the Barn Buggy books. I am collecting fabrics to make the Crazy Cats Quilt. Look here to see how cute it is.

Renae Merrill has some neat books, Carol Doak of course , and I love judy neimeyer patterns, they can be expensive though

Carol Doak has other books. I love her state star book!

There are tons of free paper piecing patterns online too.

Don't forget the paper piecing section here also for more ideas. Go to the "main" tab, then scroll down to the "user defined topics" about 2/3 of a page down -- there are many different ideas there to share

Go to quilterscache.com if you want free paper piece patterns. Scroll down until you see the quilt blocks galore, almost at the bottom of the page. You can either search by size or alphabetically. They have a pin guide as to wether it is pp or pieced. Awsome site, look at it quite a bit. They have a pp hunters star that i plan on making after the first of the year. Good luck, I love pp too

Carol Doaks 50 paper pieced stars is wonderful- she has a number of great paper pieced books-
and check out her website-and communty- some great free blocks available.
karen stone-celstial quilts
just do a search of paper piecing- or foundation piecing...there are many

Go to yahoogroups.com and join Carol Doaks groups. Tons of info, events and patterns. Her DVD is a huge help too. I se it today at Joanns ith the quilt books. My Joanns has quilt books in 2 places so if you dont see it ask a clerk

Many traditional pieced blocks can be converted into paper pieced. It just takes a little practice :) :) :)

right...I love to PP as much as the next..but unless you are doing the various stars, PP was meant to be used to do Pictorial blocks...flowers, bugs, etc....the other stuff is faster doing pieced!

Some people prefer to use paper piecing for most blocks where bias is going to be an issue since the paper helps control the bias. It also helps get super pointy points on stars and keeps people from chopping the points off when putting blocks together.

I'd go to your library and see what they have. Besides the Carol Doak books there is one called "Firm Foundations" by Jane Hall and Dixie Haywood, and "Showstopping Quilts to Foundation Piece" by Tricia Lund and Judy Pollard. I know there are more, but those are the only two I have out right now.

There is so wonderful that you enjoy paper piecing - it opens up so many options.

Fayzer - I love this Crazy Cats quilt!!! I'm a cat lover anyway and also help with a rescue so this would be a great one to make up for a raffle. Thanks - I've bookmarked it!

Thanks everyone for the suggestions - I'll be checking out all of these. I did find some lanterns that are PP and are pretty simple, not a lot of sections so that would be a great one to try. I'm also off to check out the quilterscache and this site as well!

Don't forget Quiltiger.com -- except they are redesigning their site and nothing is there. (I'm so disappointed, but the future is coming.)