Paper Piecing Practice

This is where it starts.

With a pattern specially designed for

paper piecing printed on paper

also specially designed for paper piecing.

And this is where it ends.

There are a few steps (really a lot) in between. This might be boring

but I'm gonna do a quick run-through of the process

because I took 45 photos.

First I have to make some templates for the innies and outies

(some people call them concave and convex, but I can never remember which is which)

To do this I use a heavy template plastic to which I have glued the printed

copies of the pieces and then I pretty much cut (exactly) on

the lines.

Now, I cut pieces of fabric that are a little larger than

the amount needed to cover the area of the pattern.

See my cute little scrap bag with the elephants? I got this fabric (and most of the fabric

for this project) in a mystery scrap pack I ordered from

Hawthorne Threads. 

The mailman brought me three more yards of the elephants today.  (Hint:

buy stock in Hawthorne Threads.   My new favorite go to

shop for on-line purchases which I can coordinate with fabrics from my local quilt shop.)

Next the pieces are pinned to the paper, stitched on the lines, flipped and ironed.

Man, I am starting to bore my self with this post. 

sew, sew, sew

Basically, you just keep doing it till it looks like this.

 Then like this. 

 

Then like this.

Here is where the templates come in to cut the innies and outies. 

(spell check thinks they are inners and outers???)

cut,cut, cut

 Sew it all together, and you have this.

Even a caveman could do it.