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Spark Your Quilt-Making Creativity
Why is paper piecing so popular? Because beautiful, fascinating designs can be sewn without templates, with an accuracy unmatched by other quilting techniques. And it's great fun!
My focus as a designer is on new, non-traditional designs and ideas -- in short, this is not your grandmother's quilting. Not that Grandmother didn't make beautiful quilts -- she certainly did! And so can you, with a fresh contemporary style that reflects today's spirit. After more than 12 years of pattern designing, I'm still enchanted with the endless possibilities of paper piecing and want to share my enthusiasm with you.
As you browse this site, you’ll find:
- a wealth of free quilt and block patterns under Freebies
- hints, how-tos, and tools under Fun Stuff
- links and contact info under About
I hope you'll also take a minute to visit my Etsy shop, where you'll find endless possibilities for all your holiday quilting and patchwork projects!
Are there specific paper piecing patterns or quilt-making topics you're hoping to find? Please take a minute and let me know!
Piecefully yours,
Here you’ll find fun, unique paper piecing designs for your quilts and other projects. What is paper piecing? For quilters, paper piecing (also called foundation piecing) is a very popular and versatile technique in which pieces of fabric are sewn to a foundation surface (usually paper, but not always) in a specified order, to create a patchwork design.
What’s New!
Indian Summer block: As featured in the Dec/Jan 2012 issue of Quilt magazine!
Download a free sample of Piece By Number’s professionally designed PDF paper piecing quilt block patterns!
New Design In Shop: My latest block pattern designs are Kiriki the Frog, Turtle and Bluebird of Happiness, now available in my Etsy shop.