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English Paper Piecing – What to take with you on roadtrips – Video
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English Paper Piecing – What to take with you on roadtrips – Video

Bohippian quilt pattern releases tomorrow! I do much of my English Paper Piecing (EPP) work while traveling on long car rides, and I was asked to share what I take with me when EPPing in the car IS on the agenda. So I have a little video for you today and I’m going to do…

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How to Make Hexie Flowers – Everything you need to know – Video Tutorial
English Paper Piecing

How to Make Hexie Flowers – Everything you need to know – Video Tutorial

In a few weeks, the Bohippian quilt pattern will release! I thought I’d round up some of my English paper piecing (EPP) video tutorials to show you how simple it is. SIMPLE, but TIME CONSUMING. And for me, the point of EPP is to force yourself to S L O W down. DON’T give yourself…

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Bohippian Quilt – In Progress #4 – 70s Vibes
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Bohippian Quilt – In Progress #4 – 70s Vibes

Bohippian Quilt I am so pleased to have a finished English paper pieced quilt top! In the background of the past year and a half, I’ve been stitching here and there on a grandmother’s flower garden quilt I’ve been calling it Bohippian. I’m using the English paper piecing method (EPP). The majority of the work…

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How to Hand Applique
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How to Hand Applique

  In this post, we are chatting about hand applique. I’m posting this during EPP week, but know that though many use hand applique with their English paper piecing, hand applique can stand all on it’s own.Β  There is no end to all the shapes you can applique.Β  So this tutorial doesn’t only apply to…

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English Paper Piecing – How to Make a Hexie Flower
English Paper Piecing

English Paper Piecing – How to Make a Hexie Flower

Today’s post is part of a week long series covering all things English paper piecing.Β  This series is in effort to help you along while making the Oh Honey quilt. You’ll find the pattern available here.Β  Visit our EPP shop section here. To view all previous posts in this series,Β click here.     Hexie flowers…

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English Paper Piecing – How to Whipstitch
English Paper Piecing

English Paper Piecing – How to Whipstitch

Today’s post is part of a week long series covering all things English paper piecing.Β  This series is in effort to help you along while making the Oh Honey quilt. You’ll find the pattern available here.Β  Visit our EPP shop section here. To view all previous posts in this series,Β click here.     We are…

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There are some projects that give me the same gidd There are some projects that give me the same giddy, obsessive feeling I had when I first discovered patchwork. And this mini quilt wall is doing it for me.

I vividly remember 2008, sitting on Google and finding all these blogs with pictures of patchwork. Any patchwork at all. I was hit with this massive need to cut it all up and sew it all back together.

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I always love this part. The sewing is done, the quilting is done, and all that's left is getting it up on the wall.

For this one, I used two hanging loops instead of the three I used on my sample. Both work great, but if you're curious, the third loop does a better job of hiding the pushpin. Little details like that always seem to matter more to me after the quilt is finished πŸ˜…

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