I keep reading about how HOLY COW wonderful English paper piecing is, and I think I must be missing something. It seems tedious… really, really tedious… and it involves entirely hand-stitching. I figure I must not be sufficiently advanced to appreciate its elegance. Regardless, here’s the best tutorial I’ve yet found: English Paper Piecing Project [...]
I think I have enough blocks on the second project to start trying to put them together. First, however, I’ll need to get them all the same size, which isn’t something I’d thought about when I started. It makes sense, though – not every block is going to be the same size, and in order [...]
I mentioned in an earlier post how my ironing board languished, unwrapped, for about a year. I hate ironing. Not only that, and this may sound silly, but I’m no good at it. I think ironing, like sewing, is learned behavior, and my mom never taught me how to do it. She just told me [...]