Friendly Sampler block 6 | English Paper Piecing with Beth Shibley
Today Beth Shibley is adding another block to her Friendly Sampler. This time she's using English Paper Piecing to create a Grandmother's Flower Garden block. Grab your supplies and join her!
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Beth Shibley
Beth Shibley loves to create and share her adventures in quilting. Simple patterns and practical gifts are what she loves most.
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Today Beth Shibley is adding another block to her Friendly Sampler. This time she's using English Paper Piecing to create a Grandmother's Flower Garden block. Grab your supplies and join her!
How long is the tutorial video?
The tutorial video is 00:15:51.
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Video Transcript
Beth is away from home, but that doesn't stop her from sewing. English Paper Piecing (EPP) is so portable that she can take it with her.
Today she's making hexagonal flowers using a Sewline glue pen and hexagonal paper pieces. She has first cut her fabric down to smaller squares. As she makes the hexagons she trims to 1/4" around the hexagonal shape.
Now she's adding a bit of glue to the hexagons to get the fabric to stick. She's taking care not to glue right at the edges, so she still has clean fabric to sew through. She starts on one side and continues folding around on all 6 sides.
Once she has all her hexagons pieced, it's time to sew them together! As you sew the edges together try to grab a tiny piece of fabric (and not the paper). Remember that you can fold the cardboard/paper a bit so that your edges can come together easily.
When all the hexagons are hand sewn together, it's time to remove the papers. Be sure that you're pressing as you remove the papers to keep everything nice and flat. Beth takes special care in pressing the final round so she can easily applique the edges to her quilt block.
A tip for centering items on your quilt block - fold it into quarters and press lines into place that you can use as guides!
Pin Grandmother's Flower in place so you can applique it to the block by hand or by machine.
Today she's making hexagonal flowers using a Sewline glue pen and hexagonal paper pieces. She has first cut her fabric down to smaller squares. As she makes the hexagons she trims to 1/4" around the hexagonal shape.
Now she's adding a bit of glue to the hexagons to get the fabric to stick. She's taking care not to glue right at the edges, so she still has clean fabric to sew through. She starts on one side and continues folding around on all 6 sides.
Once she has all her hexagons pieced, it's time to sew them together! As you sew the edges together try to grab a tiny piece of fabric (and not the paper). Remember that you can fold the cardboard/paper a bit so that your edges can come together easily.
When all the hexagons are hand sewn together, it's time to remove the papers. Be sure that you're pressing as you remove the papers to keep everything nice and flat. Beth takes special care in pressing the final round so she can easily applique the edges to her quilt block.
A tip for centering items on your quilt block - fold it into quarters and press lines into place that you can use as guides!
Pin Grandmother's Flower in place so you can applique it to the block by hand or by machine.
