1. Starch your fabric before doing your piecing that way it has some stability when you tear it off the paper
2. Use a size 90 needle
3. The Satin Stich foot is the best one to use for paper piecing
if u do not have one then make sure it is an open toe
4. Stich size is 1.75 tight but not to tight if u need rip out
5. You can chain piece all your pattern pieces when doing your #1 and #2 fabrics
saves u time and all done at the same time
when you do the other pieces u can butt up and keeping sewing
6. if u have a sharp point before u get to the sharp pt sew one stich line in and your pt will be perfect
7. if u need to rip out a piece use scotch tape on the pattern size and rip out fabric from one side this way you do not rip your pattern apart and can reuse
8. when pinning your block together use extra fine pins
9. Use the 4 "p" method position, pinch to get your seams together, peek and pin
10. Baste your block before u sew together. How u do this is use a big stich and do a feww stiches skip a area and sew again check that seams match and then go back and sew with regular stitch
11. open seaqms to help your pattern lay flat
These are a few tips I have learned over the times from friends and experience. You are welcome to add more tips u want to
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