Paper Piecing - Sue's way or Gail's way...

SUE AND GAIL'S BATTLE OVER THE RIGHT WAY TO PAPER PIECE

Paperless Paper Piecing or Foundation Paper piecing

Sue's Blocks

Gail's Blocks

Tools:

1. Add a Quarter and/or add an eighth (both) 

2. Stitch in the ditch Foot (Sue)

3. quilting ruler to cut your 1/4 seam allowance (Gail)

4. Paper scissors

5. 28mm rotary cutter or 45mm  (both)

6. Small cutting mat or a rotary mat. (both)

7. Glue stick washable (Gail)

8. Glue pen washable (Sue)

9. Seam Ripper - NECESSARY (Gail) A lot easier for Sue!

10. Iron or Seam Roller

Paper

1. Freezer Paper - iron on to printer paper and print, or trace using a light box or your window  (Gail)

2. Cheapest printer paper you can find (Sue)

Thread

1. Deco Bob (Sue)

2. Invisifil (Gail)

Stitch Length

1. - 1.5mm  (Gail) (that's pretty tiny for my stitch ripper)

2. - 2.4mm (Sue)

Sewing

1. Stitching on the lines (Gail)  (yes! straight lines to follow)

2. Folding the lines and sewing beside them (Sue)

Ironing

1. Mini Iron, then steam after it's all done. (Gail's way)

2. Pressing stick then iron after it's all done. (Sue's way)

PAPER ON OR OFF when each section is done!

Foundation Paper Piecing you leave the paper on until you are finished sewing all sections together (more straight lines to follow... I'm liking this!)

But

With Paperless Paper Piecing the paper comes off in one piece and then you sew it together using your 1/4 inch foot as usual.

Sue's Thought's:

I think that it's less wasteful and less messy.  If you print it, it's more accurate but sometimes if you draw it it might not be as straight.  And your pattern is reusable up to  about 12 times or more!

Gail's Thought's:

When you sew on the lines it makes the block more precise.  Pulling out the paper can be a pain, but I use the back of my seam ripper, which I have very close, and run it down the seams.  The only other issue would be getting your fabric right sides together.

I did a little experiment. I tried to do both ways and keep the scraps for each one. I was amazed at the difference!  (Ignore the pen. It and I had a little fight!). Very Interesting.

Left - Scraps from Foundation Paper Piecing.      Right - scraps using freezer paper

So which way are you going to paper piece?  The Foundation Paper Way or the Paperless Paper Piecing way...

* * * Here's this month's Challenge * * *

Using the block below or any pattern you choose, paper piece one of the methods you have never done before, or one section of your block, one way and another section the other way.  

Here are some Youtube video's to help you with either technique:

Carol Doak, the queen of paper Piecing using the Foundation (sewing on the line)  Paper Piecing method.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV4LRtqIQNA

The Sewing Palace teaching the newest method, Paperless Paper Piecing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt5NvlBhAoM

Here is a link to my google drive for a copy of the block shown below or find it at Wombats Free Paper Piecing site:

Nick's star from my google drive or Wombatts free Paper Piecing Patterns

The Special Project for September

This challenge is all about colour.  Last month we traded labels etc and here are the rules.

1. YOU MUST use the colours on the label you picked.

2. YOU CAN add one other colour that is not on the label if you choose to.

3. IF YOU HATE your label or didn't pick a label you may find your own label and use it.

Each month from now until September I will do a special blog post for this special project.  I will add to this post each month so you may need to search for it and I will try and update it at the first of each month (I'm late this month)  before the next months post so there is no confusion.  These blogs will show my progress with the quilt (or whatever) I am making for the challenge.   Hopefully this will encourage you to get busy on your project.

March

 I want to talk about colour.

There are so many ways you can choose your fabric for this project. I plan to use SHADES of the colours, blue, purple, black and white... Here's my label...

The first step for me was to see what colours I could use that were similar to this label and shades of that colour that I will be able to incorporate into my project. So off to home hardware I went.  It's hard to see in this picture but the dark colours are pretty close to the colours on this Scotties tab... but the shades are amazing.   So Over the next few weeks I will be looking for more of these shades of my colours in my stash and I may even have to go shopping...Hahaha!

Other ways of finding colours that might match are through Colour programs.  I recently purchased the colour Catalog by Sarah Renae Clark https://sarahrenaeclark.com/color-palettes/. I love her many colourful pictures and I looked for a picture with the Mulberry and blue to see what would be nice to add to it (since black and white aren't really colours). here's the colour picture I choose from the collection... 

 So yummy and I have to say, I love the mountains and those pretty flowers... so maybe I'll add a green to my project.  I'll Have to see what I have...

So here are my colours for my project.... Dark Blue, a Mulberry, a Green.... (Back to the paint store for a colour chip), and black and white.... 

I'm ready to find fabric.