Paper piecing or foundation piecing is a great technique for precise piecing using scraps. For those new members who just got HQH badge patterns -- how about a few web sites that take you through paper piecing lessons? You can view several step-by-step photo tutorials, or watch free paper piecing video tutorials, and find any number of free patterns online.
Piece an arrow block at Christine Thresh’s Paper Piecing Primer at http://www.winnowing.com/ppp.html
The photo tutorial at BlockCentral’s website (4 parts) showing piecing a sailboat starts with http://www.blockcentral.com/a-fpp1.shtml
Other paper piecing tutorials:
http://paperpanache.com/howto/howto.htm
http://resources.quiltwoman.com/hints/Basic_Paper_Piecing3.pdf
http://www.mytimepatterns.com/basics.html
http://www.quilt.com/HowTo/FoundationHowToPage.html
http://quilterscache.com/StartQuiltingPages/startquiltingthree.html
Kim, a blogger from Brantley, AL, not only maintains the quilting site BlockCentral, but is also posting to her blog “365 Paper Pieced Quilt Blocks” at http://365quiltblocks.blogspot.com/
Free paper piecing patterns can be found at
http://www.reocities.com/pcpiecers/freepatterns.html
http://www.www.caroldoak.com/free-quilt-patterns.php
http://quilterscache.com/A/AlphabetPatterns.html
http://piecebynumber.com/pastbom/archbom.htm#chaincorner
http://www.yvonnes.dk/blocks01.htm
http://www.forestquilting.com/paperpiecingfree/paperpiecingfree_pg1.html
http://www.quiltmaker.com/columns/freebie_foundations.html
http://www.quilt.com/Foundations/Blocks.html
http://www.paperpanache.com/simplereqs/reqs.htm
