Sewing Paper
#21
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: West Texas
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Miriam, here is a paper piecing pattern picture:
http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.49008...19631&pid=15.1
The areas on the paper are numbered in order of the seams to be sewn. Paper pieced blocks can be very detailed, and rather than cutting tiny pieces of fabric, rough cut pieces of fabric are used similar to a "sew and flip" method with trimming after sewing.
http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.49008...19631&pid=15.1
The areas on the paper are numbered in order of the seams to be sewn. Paper pieced blocks can be very detailed, and rather than cutting tiny pieces of fabric, rough cut pieces of fabric are used similar to a "sew and flip" method with trimming after sewing.
#22
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Sierra Vista, AZ
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Paper piecing is wonderful if you want accuracy. You don't "lose" your points. It took my quite awhile to wrap my brain around the process. Latest block from a BOM I am working on.
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#27
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Location: Joplin, Missouri
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I'm not sure how you'd go about sewing a paper envelope? Is it like a normal envelope, or a folded rectangle with a seam on the end and up one side?? sounds like fun, unless you're a postal worker and it won't run through the super fast sorter machine... Sew stuff together.. what a great idea!
#29
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And Miriam, I don't think sewing one's taxes together will trigger an audit; I think tax-processors have a dead-boring job, and maybe a stitch or two would brighten their day. I could be wrong; you could get that surly stereotype who grumbles and sends you to the gallows... that does happen...
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