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Cutting Shapes
When using freezer paper,
try this. Trace your shapes on 8x11 colored paper. Make as many copies
as you need. Cut your freezer paper in 8xll sizes. I find that four
is about the right number. Staple in the center of each shape and carefully
cut the shapes. Remove the staples and colored paper and you have four
shapes with one cut.
Barb
Basting
I started EPP this summer
and found that a small binder clip is great when basting or whipstitching
the shapes rather than using tape.
Carolyn
Basting
I have a hint for you. Instead
of using scotch tape to hold the seam allowance to the paper template,
I used a small piece of "Wonder Tape " [double stick basting
tape] between the template and the fabric patch. It worked very nicely
for me.
Carol
Whip Stitching
When I join two pieces in
English Paper Piecing, I like to start a few stitches away from the
corner, work "backwards" to the corner, then turn and come
back down the rest of the edge. That way all the knots don't bunch up
at the corners. I also have a better view of where the corners are,
so I can get them joined more accurately. I hope this tip helps somebody
else.
Margaret
Photos
Take any photo and print
it on hexagon graph
paper to create pixels. Use hexagons of corresponding colors for
the pixels.
Use half hexagons on
the ends of the rows to make the edge straight. Sew together till its
finished. TA DA
Diana
Traveling with
paper pieces
I take my hexagons and the
fabric I need in a zip lock bag in my purse everywhere I go. To keep
rows in order I place the fabric on a safely pin in the order needed
for that row. I us a permanent marker to number the safely pin as to
the row number so they can be worked in order. Sometimes I use a scrap
of paper or cloth to mark on and add it to safely pin on the closing
end.
I also sometimes take
precut squares separate by color in ziplock snack bags with a few paper
pieces to work on in my purse. I make the loose ones stored by color
until I can make them into what I need.
Lee
Making your
own paper pieces with freezer paper
I use freezer paper for my
english paper piecing. Trace your shape onto the dull side of
the freezer paper, and cut out. Iron paper shapes onto fabric,
and cut out shape adding a seam allowance. Turn the seam allowance
over the freezer paper shape and baste right through the freezer paper
with a contrasting thread. After the basted shapes are sewn together,
the basting thread can be easily removed. Remove the freezer
paper shapes and reuse them as many times as you can.
Removing the
Paper Pieces
Punch a hole in the middle
of each paper piece to make it easier to remove the piece once the fabric
pieces are sewn together.
Polly
Help in Basting
Use "removable"
glue (in stick form) to attach the paper to the back of the fabric before
basting (instead of the tape method).
Polly
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