Contemporary Paper-Pieced Quilts

By Jeannie Jenkins

This modern and contemporary introduction to foundation piecing offers 8 simple, skill-building projects that progressively build the quilter’s confidence to try more involved patterns. From a wall hanging to an intricate bed quilt, the step-by-step projects in this book use both solid and bold colors to emphasize the complex, but easily made, s

• Language: English
• Publisher: Landauer
• Release date: Nov 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9781607659440

Jeannie Jenkins

Jeanie Jenkins is a life-long sewer and award-winning quiltmaker. Jeanie shares her quiltmaking passion by teaching both beginner and intermediate classes. She is a professional longarm quilter and designer of beautiful quits. Contemporary Paper-Pieced Quilts is her first book. She resides in Toronto, Ontario.

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Paper Piecing 101

Tools & Supplies

The sewing notions shown below can help make your paper piecing experience easier and you may already have some of these tools in your sewing space. The light box, for instance, can easily be replaced using an exterior window to trace a pattern. Your finger can press a seam open as easily as a wooden seam roller. Once you get started, you’ll decide which tools are your favorites and which ones work best for you.

1. Foundation Paper Piecing paper (I like Carol Doak’s foundation paper), freezer paper, and office copy paper

2. Wooden Seam Roller

3. Iron

4. Add-A-Quarter® ruler

5. Add-An-Eighth™ ruler

6. Seam Ripper

7. Paper Scissors

8. Rotary Cutter

9. Cutting Mat

10. Neutral Thread

11. Light Box

The Patterns

Paper piecing uses a pattern on paper, not unlike a garment sewing pattern. Within the pattern are templates for the shapes of fabric you’ll cut to make a block. Some patterns are made up of segments that are pieced and then sewn together to complete a block and numbers and letters guide you as you sew the fabric shapes