Paper piecing is a great way to easily make detailed quilt squares, without having to fussy cut or rotary cut every single little piece.
Instead of having to meticulously plan every seam, paper piecing gives you a little more freedom and it’s a lot less intimidating to begin.
One of my favorite books on the subject is “Paper Piece a Flower Garden” by Jodie Davis.

The book is filled with patterns for leaves, flowers, bugs, birds and animals – in short, anything that you could find living in a flower garden!  It doesn’t give you a set pattern for putting the blocks together, …read more

Halloween paper-pieced creepy crawlers, anyone? Or not. Anyway, here is a fun craft project that you can make together with your little ones.
There must be something about paper-piecing that excites even us, the grown ups. Remember how as children in pre-kindergarten school, we used to do these kinds of things like all day, everyday? I can still vividly recall how my classroom looked like: trays were line-up in the console table, and in those trays were pieces of papers with shapes, next tray would contain wiggly eyes, noses/snouts/beaks, then yarns looking like crowns of hair in different styles and colors. Oh, I can go on …read more

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It’s the season for fireworks – in fact, I’m expecting to hear them start any minute now
Do you want to express your creativity with some festive projects?  All of these designs are free and available for download – just click on the links to check them out!
Paper-pieced fireworks motif from Four Twin Sisters:

 image: Four Twin Sisters
Celebrate July cross-stitch pattern from Connie G. Thomas:

 image: About.com Cross-stitch
Festive Fireworks cross-stitch pattern from Rainbow Gallery:

Happy sewing!