Foundation Piecing Session 8: Paper Piecing Resources

There are so many places for you to go to find paper piecing patterns and paper piecing information. And I'm just gonna share a few of my favorites with you. My favorite website is caroldoak.com, and I know I've mentioned her name before. She's really the lady that brought paper piecing into its modern form. And as I've mentioned earlier also, she has free patterns on her website that are really good for learning and really good for, kind of trying things out as well as, of course, if you wanna buy other patterns on her website, you know that's there. And she's got books and this, that and the other. Another really wonderful person is a lady named Judy Niemeyer. And remember that quilt I showed you that was just astounding with all those little narrow points all those little New York beauties? Well, she does patterns like that. And what she has, is she sells, her foundation, she has a pattern, the foundation sheets are like this, they're huge. And of course, you cut out them once you're gonna make it. And the sheet has enough for the whole entire quilt. And she's got amazing things. And they're in quilt stores too, of course. But, if you want to check out her stuff, her website is quiltworx.com, but worx is with an X, so it's, q, u, I, l, t, w, o, r, x, .com and that's Judy Niemeyer. And then another person I think has really done some really cool things, is a lady named Cindi Edgerton, with an I. Cindi, C, I, N, D, I, Edgerton, E, D, G, E, R, T, O, N. If you get close on Google, Cindi Edgerton, you'll come up with her information. Again, cindiedgerton.com. And what she does is so amazing, and she's the only one who does this. She has foundations and patterns that are for miniatures, just miniatures. Tiny, little wonderful things. And what she does that no one else is doing is that hers are printed on tissue. Kind of like when you're making a dress pattern, that kind of tissue, a little bit heavier. Oh, it's a dream to work with. And I've never been able to find it anywhere else. And as I say, she's got these wonderful little projects, they're addictive. And of course, there are all the magazines, quilting magazines. Go to mccallsquilting.com. Remember those little houses I showed you? That's part of a project called, let's see, the House that Kaffe Built. And, because they're all Kaffe Fassett fabrics, and there are all kinds of other free patterns on mccallsquilting.com. And the Quilt Maker website has lots of patterns, and of course, go to your quilt store. If you go into your quilt store and tell them you know, you wanna look at some paper piecing patterns, they'll have things from easiest to the complex. And some of the things they'll have, these books. I mean, these are books that I've had for over, you know, quite a length of time, but these are only a few of the ones I have. And they go all the way from books like this, which are all kinds of cute, little sewing notions. And there's my seam ripper. And curved paper piecing, which is another thing you can add onto your skills. And I'm actually making this quilt right now. One of my dear friends has little doxins, and so I'm gonna make that for her. And one other trick I wanna tell you, this is a book that Nancy Mohoney wrote a long time ago. She also has wonderful patterns. And I believe she's at nancymahoney.com. And what I did was, in order to use it more easily, because this was the one I wanted to photocopy really big, what I did was, you can go to Kinko's, this will blow your mind. You can take your book, like a big heavy book like this, you can take this to Kinko's and have them bind it for you with a spinal binding. And what's cool about that, is you can lay it completely flat. So, if you wanna photocopy something, it'll work just fine coming off the edges, instead of something like this, where you can't get it flat. And if you can't get it flat enough, your foundation's gonna be skewed. So, I hope that gives you a few little resources. Check out your quilt shop. You can look at the big fabric stores. You can look online, look at the magazine websites. And of course, there's always the magazine rack that's right there in your store. I hope that gave you a good start of places you can go. I really hope you try this. I think, if you're like me and you love perfection in your quilting, but you don't wanna do all the, you know, piddly, precise, and then it doesn't work out, kinda stuff, I think you might really like it. So, I hope you give it a try, and I've got my fingers crossed that you like it as much as I do.