Foundation piecing

Hi guys

I am a complete newbie at quiltmaking though I can't wait to get profficient
as I have seen so many patterns that I can't wait to start. I have the next
two years worth of quiltmaking already planned out!

I attended a beginners workshop at my local quilting shop yesterday for the
first time and absolutely loved it. The project for newbies is to make a
relatively small square quilt with four panels made up of 9 square patches
with different designs. I have already made all four panels, basic square
patchwork, monkey wrench, log cabin and a friendship star (I think it was
called that). All I need to do now is the sashing and put the quilt
together.

I have read about foundation piecing where paper is used but I can't find
information anywhere on what reasons paper is used, when foundation piecing
should be used and when not to use it.

Can anyone fill in the gaps for me?

TIA

Fran

First, Fran, welcome to quilting and RCTQ. It sounds like your workshop was
great -- you got a lot done in a short time.

I don't do a lot of foundation piecing, but I like to use it when I'm making
a block that has components that don't use "standard" template shapes.
Foundation piecing is great for ensuring accuracy and works well for smaller
quilt blocks (although you can use it on larger ones, as well). Here are a
couple of sites that give you more information:

http://www.quilt.com/HowTo/FoundationHowToPage.html

http://quilting.about.com/library/weekly/aa070797.htm

Here's a link to one of Carol Doak's blocks, and you can see what I mean by
nonstandard template shapes (and Carol pops in to the group here every so
often to answer questions and let us know what she's doing):

http://www.quilt.com/Artists/CarolDo...sY2KQuilt.html

And last, but not least, Anita Grossman Solomon has developed a new method
of foundation paper piecing that she recently demonstrated on Simply Quilts.
I just bought her book but haven't had a chance to try it yet (and it
includes a quilt made by one of the RCTQ's members, Marcella Peek):

http://www.makeitsimpler.com/homepage/homepage.html

Hope these help a little!

--
Louise in Iowa
nieland4 at mchsi dot com
http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa

"Purple" wrote in message
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Hi guys

I am a complete newbie at quiltmaking though I can't wait to get
profficient
as I have seen so many patterns that I can't wait to start. I have the
next
two years worth of quiltmaking already planned out!

I attended a beginners workshop at my local quilting shop yesterday for
the
first time and absolutely loved it. The project for newbies is to make a
relatively small square quilt with four panels made up of 9 square patches
with different designs. I have already made all four panels, basic square
patchwork, monkey wrench, log cabin and a friendship star (I think it was
called that). All I need to do now is the sashing and put the quilt
together.

I have read about foundation piecing where paper is used but I can't find
information anywhere on what reasons paper is used, when foundation
piecing
should be used and when not to use it.

Can anyone fill in the gaps for me?

TIA

Fran

In article D%vgc.20150$yD1.46824@attbi_s54,
"Louise" wrote:

http://www.quilt.com/Artists/CarolDo...sY2KQuilt.html


Oh darn I was unable to get this URL to work. Is it just me?

Not just you! I couldn't get it either.

Laurie G.
"Phaedrine" wrote in message
...
In article D%vgc.20150$yD1.46824@attbi_s54,
"Louise" wrote:

http://www.quilt.com/Artists/CarolDo...sY2KQuilt.html


Oh darn I was unable to get this URL to work. Is it just me?

Nope, it's not just you! I tried it again and couldn't get it to open, even
though I visited it earlier today. It looks like maybe the entire site is
temporarily down. Maybe we overloaded it!

--
Louise in Iowa
nieland4 at mchsi dot com
http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa

"Phaedrine" wrote in message
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In article D%vgc.20150$yD1.46824@attbi_s54,
"Louise" wrote:

http://www.quilt.com/Artists/CarolDo...sY2KQuilt.html


Oh darn I was unable to get this URL to work. Is it just me?

Must have been the gremlins at work.
I just tried it and it worked fine.
All the best,
Carol Doak
http://quilt.com/CDoak

It's working for me now, too.
--
Louise in Iowa
nieland4 at mchsi dot com
http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa

"Carol Doak" wrote in message
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Must have been the gremlins at work.
I just tried it and it worked fine.
All the best,
Carol Doak
http://quilt.com/CDoak

Boo Hoo! Still won't work for me. I'll try again later though.
Donna
"Louise" wrote in message
news:5QAgc.21669$ru4.18718@attbi_s52...
It's working for me now, too.
--
Louise in Iowa
nieland4 at mchsi dot com
http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa

"Carol Doak" wrote in message
...
Must have been the gremlins at work.
I just tried it and it worked fine.
All the best,
Carol Doak
http://quilt.com/CDoak

I just tried and it wouldn't work for me either.

--
Mary
http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948
"Donna Maine" wrote in message
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Boo Hoo! Still won't work for me. I'll try again later though.
Donna
"Louise" wrote in message
news:5QAgc.21669$ru4.18718@attbi_s52...
It's working for me now, too.
--
Louise in Iowa
nieland4 at mchsi dot com
http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa

"Carol Doak" wrote in message
...
Must have been the gremlins at work.
I just tried it and it worked fine.
All the best,
Carol Doak
http://quilt.com/CDoak

In article ,
(Carol Doak) wrote:

Must have been the gremlins at work.
I just tried it and it worked fine.
All the best,
Carol Doak
http://quilt.com/CDoak


sigh Doesn't work for me, either.
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Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1