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    Quick-Strip Paper Piecing: For Blocks, Borders & Quilts
    Quick-Strip Paper Piecing: For Blocks, Borders & Quilts
    Quick-Strip Paper Piecing: For Blocks, Borders & Quilts
    Ebook209 pages42 minutes

    Quick-Strip Paper Piecing: For Blocks, Borders & Quilts

    By Peggy Martin

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    Learn how to speed up your paper piecing with this innovative technique and create radiant quilts.

    Paper piece your way to fast, accurate quilts! “Quick-strip” whiz Peggy Martin combines the accuracy of paper piecing, the speed of strip piecing, and an incredible eye for color to create quilts that seem to glow from within. Discover for yourself this fun, easy, nearly mistake-proof variation on a theme.

    • 17 block patterns plus two borders, based on traditional designs - all paper pieced for speed and accuracy

    • 4 complete quilt projects include “Midnight Garden,” “Millennium Star,” “New York Beauty,” and “Rainbow Galaxy”

    • Complete instructions for Peggy’s quick-strip technique, plus fabric selection, pattern preparation, and finishing touches

    • Get inspired by a gallery of bright, colorful quick-strip quilts

    • A great introduction to paper piecing for beginners, and experienced paper piecers will love it, too!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 5, 2010
    ISBN9781607053972
    Quick-Strip Paper Piecing: For Blocks, Borders & Quilts

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      Quick-Strip Paper Piecing - Peggy Martin

      Preparing to Sew

      Before you begin your Quick-Strip Paper-Piecing project, make sure that you have all the supplies assembled. Here I’ve included a list of what you will need. Many of them you probably use for other quilting projects, and a few others may be new to you but are very helpful for this technique.

      Tools and Supplies

      Sewing machine with sewing extension surface or cabinet

      Open-toe foot (optional) — This enables you to see the sewing line more easily.

      Sewing machine needles — Use size 90/14 or size 80/12 quilting, jeans/denim, or universal needles for paper piecing. Use size 70/10 or 75/11 quilting, jeans/denim, or universal needles for appliqué of curved seams.

      Neutral sewing thread for piecing — Use thread that will blend best with your project.

      Rotary cutter, mat, and ruler for cutting strips and for trimming up blocks and projects

      Spray starch — This will minimize stretching and distortion of the fabric as the edges of paper-pieced blocks are often off-grain. You can apply the spray starch after your strips are cut if you don’t want to starch a large piece of fabric. Just spray each strip and iron.

      Invisible tape — Use it to reinforce a sewing line on a paper pattern when it becomes torn after ripping out stitching or to join paper sections for borders.

      Glue stick — This is for basting appliqué of curved seams in the New York Beauty project.

      Fabric scissors

      Paper scissors

      Seam ripper

      Selecting Your Fabrics

      Each pattern has a lined sketch of the block and a color photo to help you get started on your own quilt plan. Notice that the sewn block and the lined drawings are the reverse of the pattern, which is what happens in paper piecing. You can photocopy the lined drawings and try out different color combinations with colored pencils or fabric mock-ups.

      Selecting the background fabric first often makes other fabric choices easier because the value (lightness or darkness) of the background fabric will affect the values of the other fabrics chosen. For example, if you choose a dark background, choose light or light-medium fabrics for star points or other design elements if you want to create a strong contrast. If the background is light, then design elements from darker fabrics will be more dramatic. Just be sure to have a good contrast with the background fabric for best definition of star points.

      Some block patterns have suggested areas for background fabric indicated in the project. Changing the background and colored areas of a block pattern can greatly alter the look of a block. Look at the effect that changing a background area has on the Spinning Star blocks below:

      Spinning Star block by Peggy Martin

      Spinning Star block by Wanzie Walley

      Types of Print Fabric

      Fabrics which read as solid such as tone-on-tone prints, batiks, hand-dyed fabrics, or mottled solids, work well just about anywhere in these blocks and are perfect for small areas such as star points. You can use smaller-scale prints as well in many areas. Large-scale prints generally work best in larger areas of a design but can be unpredictable or even exciting when used in other areas.

      Directional fabrics or small stripes can be more challenging to use but can produce some interesting effects. In Rainbow Galaxy, page 52, I used several different small-scale stripes in the blocks, adding movement and excitement.

      Fiber Content

      Cotton is my fabric of choice for most quilting projects because of its ease in sewing, pressing, and laundering. Prewash cotton fabrics, then press with spray starch to help prevent stretching when blocks are off-grain, which often occurs in paper piecing. Because fabrics are sewn to a paper foundation, other types of fabric such as silks or metallics can be sewn with relative ease; however, take special care in pressing and laundering when using these fabrics. Many will melt under a hot iron, so I advise using a lower heat setting.

      Also protect the fabric with a press cloth if it tends to stick to the iron. If any of your fabrics can’t be washed, washing of the completed projects will not be possible. The quilt will need to be dry cleaned if necessary. For this reason, use non-cotton fabrics on wall quilts, which do not need frequent laundering.

      Making the Patterns

      Now that you have your fabric and supplies assembled, you’re ready to make the copies of the paper patterns you will need for each project. Each block in this book is made up of several identical pattern units that are repeated. You will need a paper pattern for each repeat unit. Each block tells you how many copies you will need in order to make the block. I suggest several ways to copy the patterns as you will see below. Choose the option that you prefer.

      Patterns are available to

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