Diamond english paper piecing

English Paper Piecing 60 degree diamond stars with Porstmouth Fabric

Happy New Year!!! I hope that you all had a lovely Christmas break! I thoroughly enjoyed myself and both mum and I got to recharge our batteries a little and spent lots of quality family time. One of my main goals this year is to focus on balancing work/family, but I won't lie it's a hard one! Unfortunately, my New Year hasn't quite gone to plan, as I took a little tumble on the stairs on Tuesday and sprained my ankle. However as they say, all clouds have a silver lining which has meant…

This post is part of the A Season by Hand series. Find the schedule here. Full details on sponsors and prizes here. —– Today we’re welcoming Jodi from Pleasant Home to share how she stores her English paper piecing supplies. On her blog Jodi shares her bright, beautiful quilts {see her finished projects here}, tutorials,...

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Hello! This week is all about my favourite English paper piecing shape - the diamond! Yay! If you are a regular reader of my blog you'll know I have a diamond star quilt in the works ;-) and a mini wall hanging using 1-1/4" diamonds. I love the classic look of stars in quilts and English paper piecing is a great way to achieve the accuracy you need to get those perfect points and joins. Diamonds are measured by the degree of the angle. For example at Sew and Quilt we stock the 8-point and…

Quilt designs featuring 6-point stars have been made by many generations of quilters. Flock of Stars is a free, easy beginner friendly English Paper Pieced (EPP) 6-point diamond quilt pattern that embraces that heritage and finishes at a great lap size. Click to read the pattern and then download the free printables! #EPP #englishpaperpiecing #patchwork #patchworkquilt #starquilt #diamondquilt #beginnerfriendly #quilt #blanket #sewing #adventure

ENGLISH PAPER PIECING (EPP)

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All of my English paper pieced diamonds are now stitched together and ready to be appliqued to the border strip. They are so bright and cheerful and will be the perfect finished for my quilt. As I was pressing them (with a little spray starch) before removing the basting threads and paper it occurred to me that they could be assembled into some interesting larger diamonds. Here are a couple of examples. I think there are lots of possibilities for assembling these into some new and…

Happy Tuesday! I've been paper piecing some 8-point diamonds recently, which I've been itching to start playing with since they arrived at Sew and Quilt last month, but had to hold the plans until I finished off my other quilt ;) These are the 3" size - so they're big, and because they only have four sides they are much quicker to whip up than hexies, perfect! This time I was completely inspired by this quilt I pinned on Pinterest a while back, I really love the pink background and bright…