How to Quilt - The Basics

Whether you call it paper piecing or foundation piecing, the fact is there are times when neither traditional piecing nor applique will give you the look you want and the only thing you can do is break out the foundation paper.

Paper foundation piecing is a technique that allows you to create patterns and achieve shapes that would be difficultif not impossibleto do via traditional piecing. With this technique, you are stitching your fabric onto the pattern itself, then flipping and pressing each patch before stitching the next one on.

Ive made a few foundation-pieced projects, mostly individual blocks that…