Creating Loving Quilts

Many people look at quilts and cannot imagine that they are capable of creating such intricate designs. With foundation paper piecing it is easier than you think.

Easy, stress free perfection

Foundation piecing consists of sewing pieces of fabric on to a paper pattern to create a quilt block. Using the foundation piecing technique to piece blocks gives you the ability to construct complicated patterns easily and accurately.

Once you discover how to assemble a quilt using the foundation paper piecing technique, you will be able to make any number of quilt patterns.

The Foundation Paper Piecing tutorial incorporates two complete patchwork quilt projects with easy-to-follow workshop instructions and original patterns to guide you through your project. The foundation papers are also included.

Pauline Rogers steps you through the technique of paper piecing, as you create the single bed quilt, Pineapple Pizzazz with pieced pineapple blocks. Pineapple Pizzazz is a non-stress quilt ideal for all levels. The accurate patterns ensure perfect piecing every time and using strips makes for speed piecing.

You will learn all about:

• Choosing fabrics
• Reading and understanding your pattern
• The piecing process - sewing on the line
• The tools that make foundation piecing even easier
• Testing your thread tension

You get lots of variety

With the helpful hints provided and all the practice you get piecing the bed quilt you are then ready to move on to the next project, Spring Flowers, a small wall hanging. Spring Flowers goes beyond the basics demonstrating three different foundation blocks – log cabin, flowers and flying geese. You unlock the secrets of these glorious blocks as you assemble the blocks quickly without using pins. As an added bonus, you also receive instructions for creating a flower border using hexagons.

Set your creativity free

In the Foundation Paper Piecing tutorial, Pauline let’s you in on a secret and fun way to picking which fabric goes where.  The Pineapple Pizzazz quilt comes with a colour layout. Following the layout will ensure that the quilt has an overall balanced appearance but you are free to select the fabrics you want to use. This quilt is great for using up small scraps of fabric. It lends itself to the use of an assortment of prints and tone on tone fabrics. If you stress about which fabrics should go where just follow Pauline’s simple suggestion and you will discover how exciting it is to experiment.

Foundation piecing makes quilt making easy. Folks will look at your stunning creations with awe.  If they only knew…