Doing some english paper piecing

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When I got these lovely purple fabrics fro island batiks I wanted to use black with it and had an idea for hexagons!

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So I ordered a pack of 25 hexagons from paperpieces.com and 100 of the trapezoid pieces, each 2” on the side.

The hexagons are easy to cut out, I used a fons and porter glue stick and glued the paper to the fabrics

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with some of the fabrics I optimized the space

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with this small print I had the short edge line up with the dots and each corner ended up touching the X on the fabric too

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here it was a marbled effect and I lined the pieces up to go in the same direction.

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here there were big circles, so 6 of them (for one hexie) I had the circle be in the middle of the trapezoid, the other set I had the diamond shapes “space” be at the top center, should be fun to sew together!

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Here all the pieces are glued and cut, I didn’t really care that the edge are not even or straight since it’s EPP.

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I decided to thread baste, as it would use so much glue and these pieces are big, where I’ve glue basted Ahhhh’s (hexagons) because those were tiny pieces.

Here I sewed one hexagon together with surrounding trapezoids and then removed the paper from the black hexagon.

Should be a nice car ride project!

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This is how far I got on the LOVE cross stitch which I now put back in the box.

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5 thoughts on “Doing some english paper piecing”

  1. SewMisadventurous

    I envy you the ability to be able to work in a car, Bea, I get really carsick if I try to do anything that involves looking down. And that Dresden quilting looks fabulous, I just made a Dresden block, and can't see myself ever being seduced into a whole quilt of them, lol.

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