A Quilt Concert Series #1 participant will receive a free package of English Paper Piecing Made Modern, Lucy Boston templates.
English Paper Piecing Made Modern, self-stick templates enable you to straight stitch by hand or machine.
Hours of preparing your EPP turn into minutes when you do not have to baste, whip-stitch, or pull papers.
Keep reading to find all the details.
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Lucy Boston is famous for a number of things.
She is most known for the Patchwork of the Crosses related to quilting.
The Patchwork of the Crosses consists of one shape, used in amazing ways.
The Honeycomb is referred to in Diana Boston's book The Patchworks of Lucy Boston and Julia Hedgecoe's photographs as 1" long hexagons.
The shape lends itself well to focus/fussy cutting. A 1" honeycomb has enough room to capture many wonderful motifs. The motifs can be combined with the shape beside them to form another interesting motif.
The focus/fussy blocks are generally surrounded by solid-colored honeycombs or long hexagons. 1" Squares connect the blocks.
Sometimes, the solid-color row is left off, and just 1" squares and the center square block connect everything together.
The square in the center is made up of 4, 1" squares surrounded by 8, 1" squares, 2 on each side. That configuration has options—a 2" center square and 2" rectangles could be used.
Permission is granted to use this photo. Thank you to Wendy and her Mum, Joy Hill, from Auckland, New Zealand. Joy made these blocks. This was the best photo to show how the blocks connect. The link below is for Wendy's blog.https://wendysquiltsandmore.blogspot.com/2019/02/peacock-party-and-trip-to-auckland.html
I wanted to learn more about Lucy Boston. This book tells about her life and features wonderful pictures of her quilts.
https://www.amazon.com/Patchworks-Lucy-Boston-Diana
Here are some highlights.
In 1938 Lucy made her first patchworks, a curtain and a throw for a sofa using a large hexagon shape. There are pictures of these projects, and much more in the book.
Lucy wrote the Green Knowe children's books. She was also a gardener who loved roses and scented plants. She purchased the Manor Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon, restored the house, and entertained there well into her nineties.
This is the package a lucky winner will receive.
What is inside?
This package of 6 sheets contains:
90 - 1" Honeycombs, 96 - 1" squares
Reusable until they no longer stick, 5-8 times. That is a lot of templates.
Self-stick templates eliminate per-turning, basting/gluing, whipstitching, and pulling papers out. Use the templates to cut fabric shapes, including fussy cutting.
Then, simply straight-stitch fabric shapes together by hand or machine.
How would you like no basting/gluing, whip-stitching, or pulling paper at the end?
I had the same concerns as you, so I created an alternative.
English Paper Piecing Made Modern.
Use the templates to cut shapes, including fussy/focus cutting. Then, re-stick centering on the wrong side of a shape and straight stitching by hand or machine. Sew Simple!
Let's look at some focus/fussy cutting fun to inspire you.
I cut plastic templates from EZ Quilting Extra Thick Template Plastic to preview motifs. I stuck an English Paper Piecing Made Modern template on the plastic and trimmed the shape with no seam allowance. Then, I peeled the EPPMM (English Paper Piecing Made Modern) template off.
Make a small hole in the template, use a hole bunch, if you have one.
The little black thing is from a clothing tag.
I made plastic shapes for almost all the EPPMM shapes. These are the La Passacaglia shapes.
I carry them when I fabric shop to determine if a motif will fit inside the shape.
You can also use the EPPMM templates and a lightbox to preview shapes.
Once you know where to cut, place an EPPMM template on the right or wrong side and trim a 1/4" around the template.
An Add A Quarter Ruler makes this task very easy. The ruler has a lip that butts against the template resulting in an accurate 1/4" seam allowance.
Then simply center the template to the wrong side of a fabric shape, add another fabric shape (no template on the one being added) right sides together.
Straight stitch by hand or machine from corner to corner of the template, tacking at the beginning and the end.
Continue to add fabric shapes to all sides of the one with the template. Then, move the template to an outer shape and repeat.
After this post, visit my YouTube channel to see the templates in action.
https://www.youtube.com/c/SewforeverbyBeckyCampbell
Use the Instagram link to see what I am up to on a regular day.
https://www.instagram.com/sewforeverbybeckycampbell
This is a bed coverlet made using just 5 Patchwork blocks. You do not have to make a whole quilt to use these blocks.
My helper/model is my granddaughter, Reese.
“If you’ve ever done English Paper Piecing, if you’ve tried it and didn’t like it, if you’ve been intimidated or overwhelmed, now there is an alternative to traditional English Paper Piecing. English Paper Piecing Made Modern changes the game.
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