Journal

Here we share our inspiration, shop news and expertise to help you on your sewing journey and specifically, your next English Paper Piecing project. We hope to offer you helpful advice and technical insight on a range of projects and products we stock from our deep understanding developed over the last 10+ years in business.

Beginners English Paper Piecing Guide

English Paper Piecing Tips & Tricks

Question: “How do I keep my stitches neat and not showing on the front?” Answer: Try to catch only a couple of threads…
Beginners English Paper Piecing Guide

English Paper Piecing Diamonds – Sharp Points and Tails

Diamonds open up so many possibilities for English Paper Piecing and they tessellate to lots of other shapes. Generally the wider…
Beginners English Paper Piecing Guide

How To Sew English Paper Piecing Shapes Together

Basted shapes are sewn together using a whip-stitch (previously known as over-sewing). Please note the photos below are completed by…
Beginners English Paper Piecing Guide

Getting Started with English Paper Piecing

Once you have you have gathered your tools and supplies, you can begin cutting and then basting your shapes. CUTTING…
Beginners English Paper Piecing Guide

English Paper Piecing Supplies & Tools

English Paper Piecing requires few essential tools which could be explained as one of the reasons for popularity. Paper templates,…
History

The History of English Paper Piecing

There is no clear record of when papers came to be used in patchwork, however we do have the earliest…