What is EPP

Pat Sloan put out the call to ask about our English Paper Piecing (EPP) and a bit about how we utilize the style or not. I do have one ongoing project that is EPP. I use the scraps from quilts that I make to make one flower from each quilt’s scraps.

I have this great bag that I keep the project in my Thrive bag from Heart Berry A local Ojibwe artist promoting Indigenous to not simply survive, but to thrive, she also is an amazing beader.  So the bag is beautiful and carries a ton of my stuff that I can grab and go when we jump in the car snd head up the North Shore of Lake Superior, cross over to Wisconsin and drive on the South Shore, or down to MSP.

In this bag I have as you can see, a bag with a stack of finished flowers, a bag with petals all sewn into the centers awaiting the sides of petals to be seen together. I have a bag with cut squares with the Hexigon paper pieces (hexies) pinned to 2-1/2 squares. There are 450 of these, I know there are 450 because all of my three containers of appliqué pins are tied in that bag. I also have another bag full of squares cut into 2-1/2” squares from my quilts I have made. I have a pack of thread I received during the Minnesota shop hop for completing a section. A plastic bin that holds my needles, big spool of Aurifil thread. An metal bowl with an amazing magnet from an auto supply store that I use for pins and needles within the case- nothing like loose ships on a road trip.
I have a pack of mini-charms, also shop hop section prize, that I sometimes use for flower centers. Other miscellaneous items my thimbles, a pen, mini rulers, also the directions I was given it had eight paper templates, a needle and this page of directions.
In Another of the smaller bags with a hexagon paper punch I bought at a craft store. I had decided I wanted to keep the hexies in until all the flowers were sewn together. So I went looking for a punch just for this. I use my paper grocery store bags, and punch out an entire bag worth of hexies in one sitting.

With my supplies and scraps, I sew the flower shapes together randomly, since I have never kept a quilt it makes for a nice memory as I continue to build my Grandmother’s garden you see here.












If you think you’d like to just try it out without a big investment this is the  info to ask for a kit, if you were not yet given one.  Paperpiecing.com














































































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