It amuses me that this technique is known as the English paper piecing method. Just goes to show how we are influenced by the American view of the world. To me this is just paper piecing. It is in fact the first technique that I used to make a patchwork quilt at the end of the 1970s. My first ever quilt was mostly hand pieced as a Grandmother’s flower garden design. I didn’t know at the time that this was what it was called. It is in all shades of blues and purples as this was the colour of my bedroom in my parents house at the time I started. It took so long to make that it become a double bed sized quilt because I’d got married in the meantime! I also didn’t know that you were supposed to use batting so it only has two layers.
So 30 years and more later I am again doing paper piecing but on a much smaller scale. I actually enjoyed doing it but only in small bursts. Here’s the finished piece:
And here it is next to the original photo. I like the way it goes from representational to abstract.
This time round the mini quilt benefitted from some of the previous courses I’ve taken. Especially learning the Secrets of Circles at QU with Myrna Giesbrecht. I have some nice “roses” on the back of the piece so that the seams lie nice and flat:
The points aren’t too bad on the front either. Also as a result of the same class.
