1, 2, 3 Quilt: Shape Up Your Skills with 24 Stylish Projects by Baker Ellen Luckett

Author:Baker, Ellen Luckett [Baker, Ellen Luckett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2013-09-10T00:00:00+00:00

English paper piecing is a traditional method for preparing appliqué shapes. You’ll cut the shapes from paper, then cut the fabric shapes a bit larger than the paper shapes, and then hand baste each fabric shape around a paper shape. The paper gives your appliqué shape accuracy and stability as you work. The pieces can be attached to each other or to a background fabric. The paper is removed before the finishing stitches are sewn.

1 Cut the appliqué shape from plain paper. Your paper shape should not include seam allowance. (Note that the appliqué templates in this book are finished size, without seam allowance.)

2 Using the paper as a template, cut the fabric about ¼ to ½ in/6 to 12 mm larger than the paper shape. This cut needn’t be perfectly accurate since the raw edges will be folded under. I like to use a rotary cutter to make quick work of cutting the fabric shapes. You may want to stack fabric in layers to cut more than one shape at a time.

3 Thread a small basting needle with an arm’s length of thread and tie a knot at the end. With the paper shape centered on the wrong side of the fabric shape, and holding the paper and fabric together with one hand, fold over one edge to begin making your shape. Insert the needle here with the knot on the back side. Sew through both the fabric and the paper shapes, making a long basting stitch. Continue around the shape with long basting stitches, folding and finger pressing as you go (see figure A). When you get to the end of the shape, make an extra stitch, then cut the thread. Then move on to the next appliqué shape. (See finished examples of the front and back of a shape in figure B.)

4 Sew the basted shapes by hand either to each other or to the background fabric with a whipstitch. If you are sewing your shapes to background fabric, just before the final stitches are put in to secure the appliqué, cut your basting stitches and remove the paper. If you are sewing the shapes to each other (such as piecing hexagons), remove the paper after you have sewn all the shapes together.

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