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Paper piecing help
I'm trying a paper piecing project for the first time. I won a "Tin Box
Sampler Series" of gorgeous crackle charm fabrics as a door prize. There are very minimal directions with it to make nine Courthouse Steps blocks. I figured out the cutting, and construction, but now I have a couple questions. On the paper foundation pieces there are TRIM lines and SEAM lines. It seems that I would trim the blocks with the paper still attached so I can follow the lines. Do I also stitch the blocks together with the paper still on? Do I trim and then remove the paper? Also, since this project ends up being 12" X 12" what size binding do I use....narrower than for a standard sized quilt? Thanks for any help. Alice in PA |
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I like to put my blocks together with the paper still on.
-- Vikki in WA State "Alice" wrote in message ... I'm trying a paper piecing project for the first time. I won a "Tin Box Sampler Series" of gorgeous crackle charm fabrics as a door prize. There are very minimal directions with it to make nine Courthouse Steps blocks. I figured out the cutting, and construction, but now I have a couple questions. On the paper foundation pieces there are TRIM lines and SEAM lines. It seems that I would trim the blocks with the paper still attached so I can follow the lines. Do I also stitch the blocks together with the paper still on? Do I trim and then remove the paper? Also, since this project ends up being 12" X 12" what size binding do I use....narrower than for a standard sized quilt? Thanks for any help. Alice in PA |
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Glad your first time is working out for you Alice. It's a wonderfully
useful technique. I have tried joining with paper on, and off. Here is what I have found: the paper stabilises everything beautifully, so if you have triangles, with -therefore- bias edges, I would leave the paper on. It is very difficult to match seams etc with the paper on, because the feed dogs can't grip on the paper. So, what I have now decided to do, when I want to leave the paper on, is: to draw my patterns *without* the outside seam allowance included. You can still trim accurately, because you line up your ruler's quarter inch mark with the edge of the paper. But, you have a fabric seam allowance which can be pinned (keeping the pinned piece tiny, within the seam allowance - I 'click' the paper edge with my pin point underneath and then bring it up through the fabric. One set of feed dogs is under fabric, so that helps. On the other hand, if my edges are not bias, I will usually press carefully, trim and then remove the papers. A quarter inch binding will be fine for 12" x 12". .. In message , Alice writes I'm trying a paper piecing project for the first time. I won a "Tin Box Sampler Series" of gorgeous crackle charm fabrics as a door prize. There are very minimal directions with it to make nine Courthouse Steps blocks. I figured out the cutting, and construction, but now I have a couple questions. On the paper foundation pieces there are TRIM lines and SEAM lines. It seems that I would trim the blocks with the paper still attached so I can follow the lines. Do I also stitch the blocks together with the paper still on? Do I trim and then remove the paper? Also, since this project ends up being 12" X 12" what size binding do I use....narrower than for a standard sized quilt? Thanks for any help. Alice in PA -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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Alice I have that tin too :-) it became a UFO after DS2 decided to oil my
sewing machine with the blocks still *under* the foot with half a bottle of sewing machine oil (yes the oil came out after 6 weeks of experimentation - copious amounts of dish detergent did the trick!) first you cut apart the blocks between all the lines leaving the trim lines untouched. then you paper piece the blocks, then trim on the trim lines and sew the blocks together on the seam lines. then remove the paper - that way you have all the blocks exactly right :-) the size of the binding is one of taste - I personally like to see 1/4" of binding on the front and would cut my binding at 2 1/4 inch and fold it double - I also use my smaller projects to practice my binding on ;-) -- Jessamy Queen of Chocolate Squishies (and Occasional Liquorice Ones) In The Netherlands Take out: _I love the colour_ to reply. www.geocities.com/jessamy_thompson http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jes...pson/my_photos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm trying a paper piecing project for the first time. I won a "Tin Box Sampler Series" of gorgeous crackle charm fabrics as a door prize. There are very minimal directions with it to make nine Courthouse Steps blocks. I figured out the cutting, and construction, but now I have a couple questions. On the paper foundation pieces there are TRIM lines and SEAM lines. It seems that I would trim the blocks with the paper still attached so I can follow the lines. Do I also stitch the blocks together with the paper still on? Do I trim and then remove the paper? Also, since this project ends up being 12" X 12" what size binding do I use....narrower than for a standard sized quilt? Thanks for any help. Alice in PA |
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With a piece that small, you could simply attach narrow piping at the seam
line on the front. Place the backing on the front RST (put a piece of batting on too if you need it.) Stitch the layers together with the front side up so you can see the stitching line from the piping. Leave a little opening to turn RSO. Thus you get the effect of binding with not much bulk. Roberta in D "Alice" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... I'm trying a paper piecing project for the first time. I won a "Tin Box Sampler Series" of gorgeous crackle charm fabrics as a door prize. There are very minimal directions with it to make nine Courthouse Steps blocks. I figured out the cutting, and construction, but now I have a couple questions. On the paper foundation pieces there are TRIM lines and SEAM lines. It seems that I would trim the blocks with the paper still attached so I can follow the lines. Do I also stitch the blocks together with the paper still on? Do I trim and then remove the paper? Also, since this project ends up being 12" X 12" what size binding do I use....narrower than for a standard sized quilt? Thanks for any help. Alice in PA |
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Thanks everyone for your very helpful suggestions... I've decided to trim
all the blocks (with the paper on), and add a narrow black sashing. I'm hoping that will make the beautiful colors stand out. The binding will be black too. Since I'm in PA Amish country, I'll have to wait until tomorrow when the quilt stores open to buy the black fabric. Thanks again, Alice in PA "Roberta Zollner" wrote in message ... With a piece that small, you could simply attach narrow piping at the seam line on the front. Place the backing on the front RST (put a piece of batting on too if you need it.) Stitch the layers together with the front side up so you can see the stitching line from the piping. Leave a little opening to turn RSO. Thus you get the effect of binding with not much bulk. Roberta in D "Alice" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... I'm trying a paper piecing project for the first time. I won a "Tin Box Sampler Series" of gorgeous crackle charm fabrics as a door prize. There are very minimal directions with it to make nine Courthouse Steps blocks. I figured out the cutting, and construction, but now I have a couple questions. On the paper foundation pieces there are TRIM lines and SEAM lines. It seems that I would trim the blocks with the paper still attached so I can follow the lines. Do I also stitch the blocks together with the paper still on? Do I trim and then remove the paper? Also, since this project ends up being 12" X 12" what size binding do I use....narrower than for a standard sized quilt? Thanks for any help. Alice in PA |
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wrote: I'm trying a paper piecing project for the first time. Good for you! I won a "Tin Box Sampler Series" of gorgeous crackle charm fabrics as a door prize. There are very minimal directions with it to make nine Courthouse Steps blocks. I figured out the cutting, and construction, but now I have a couple questions. On the paper foundation pieces there are TRIM lines and SEAM lines. It seems that I would trim the blocks with the paper still attached so I can follow the lines. Correct. Do I also stitch the blocks together with the paper still on? Yes. Do I trim and then remove the paper? Don't remove the paper until the entire little quilt is put together and you're ready to quilt it. That way, you don't lose the stabilizing that the paper provides. Also, since this project ends up being 12" X 12" what size binding do I use....narrower than for a standard sized quilt? Thanks for any help. I would. Try using strips cut 1.75" wide, which would give you a finished 1/4" binding. Of course, it's entirely up to you -- my preference is almost always for a narrow binding, but you may prefer something else. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education |
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Alice, leave the paper on until you have the top piece all sewing
together. Alice wrote: I'm trying a paper piecing project for the first time. I won a "Tin Box Sampler Series" of gorgeous crackle charm fabrics as a door prize. There are very minimal directions with it to make nine Courthouse Steps blocks. I figured out the cutting, and construction, but now I have a couple questions. On the paper foundation pieces there are TRIM lines and SEAM lines. It seems that I would trim the blocks with the paper still attached so I can follow the lines. Do I also stitch the blocks together with the paper still on? Do I trim and then remove the paper? Also, since this project ends up being 12" X 12" what size binding do I use....narrower than for a standard sized quilt? Thanks for any help. Alice in PA |
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Good questions! I look forward to reading the answers.
-- Carolyn in The Old Pueblo If it ain't broke, you're not trying. --Red Green If it ain't broke, it ain't mine. --Carolyn McCarty If at first you don't succeed, switch to power tools. --Red Green If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer. --Carolyn McCarty "Alice" wrote in message ... I'm trying a paper piecing project for the first time. I won a "Tin Box Sampler Series" of gorgeous crackle charm fabrics as a door prize. There are very minimal directions with it to make nine Courthouse Steps blocks. I figured out the cutting, and construction, but now I have a couple questions. On the paper foundation pieces there are TRIM lines and SEAM lines. It seems that I would trim the blocks with the paper still attached so I can follow the lines. Do I also stitch the blocks together with the paper still on? Do I trim and then remove the paper? Also, since this project ends up being 12" X 12" what size binding do I use....narrower than for a standard sized quilt? Thanks for any help. Alice in PA |
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