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Under My Needle: A Tiny Bit of English Paper Piecing Progress

By Deb - Quiltblox on February 28, 2023February 28, 2023

Several months ago I shared with you that I’m working on an English Paper Piecing project. Now – here’s the thing. I have played around with EPP before and made a small block or two. Nothing at all like the scale of the project I’m working on now. Crazy? probably so – but I’ve learned a lot and am having some fun with it.

Deb Messina - English Paper Piecing Project Progress - 1

I’ve made a (tiny) bit of progress on my English Paper Piecing project. Clearly – this is going to take me some time to complete. I’ve made approximately 25 of the flowers so far. I’m guessing that I will need around 150 of the brightly colored flowers.

I’m going to be setting these brightly colored flowers into a large circle (or wreath). The background will also be hexagons – made up of various light tonal shades. In the pictures below – you can see the shades I have so far. It’s possible I may restrict the palette even further by removing the two darkest fabrics. Still undecided on that.

My stitches are pretty close together
My background fabrics
Loving the 50wt Aurifil thread for this project
I’m grouping each flower together using these handy clips
The stitching is much more hidden when I use the 50 wt thread

Here’s what I’ve learned so far

A finer thread works much better. I was using 40wt, to begin with, and found that my stitches were showing much more than I liked. Now I’m using Aurifil 50wt and I’m happier with the stitches being much more hidden.

Glue or basting – I’m still undecided but have been defaulting to using the Sewline fabric glue pens and it’s working pretty well for me.

Stitching density – I am making my stitches too close together – and can’t seem to help myself. I’m working on this, maybe I’ll be a little faster if I don’t stitch so closely.

The papers – As I start to join flowers together – I plan to remove the papers from those hexies that are completely surrounded. We’ll see how that goes when I get that far.

I wasn’t so sure that I was going to enjoy this process, I can be a little impatient sometimes. The truth is – I’m really enjoying it. I can pick it up – or put it away quickly. I can even take it with me when we hit the road with our tiny travel trailer. Completed flowers are being stored in a small tote in my sewing room and I have a handful of prepped flowers clipped together into little bundles – all ready to work in my small travel sewing organizer.


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