paper piecing

Good morning all.

After spending a good part of this past weekend working on my sampler quilt (20 blocks down, 36 to go!), I had a brainwave (yes I know, it doesn't happen every day). One of the blocks in my quilt (from quilter's cache) is the Dolly Madison star. It is part paper pieced. And it turned out beautifully. Now I am not a great paper piecer, so bear with me. The only paper piecing I have ever done is log cabin and now this star. It sure makes it easier to join all those tiny triangles. So I was wondering: what are the limits of paper piecing? Can it be applied to any block that does not have curved lines? Is it worth it to paper piece rather that to join pieces without paper piecing? THe next block I will be facing (also from quilter's cache) is the double star chain. It has a zillion little triangles. It is not paper pieced in the quilter's cache, but I was wondering if it wouldn't make sense to paper piece it.

What are your opinions?

Thanks

Claudia

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maryd

I tthink that it would be a lot easier to do the Double Star Chain as a paper piece.

I would do the centre square the the 12 small outer squares and then join the lot.

YMMV

Dee in Oz

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Dee in Oz

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Roberta

The double star chain block has several four patches; those are much easier to strip piece than to paper piece. The segments made up of two small and one larger triangle could be paper pieced quite easily. However, I would use a combination of the half-square triangle and quarter square triangle piecing, as described at . I always cut my squares for half-square and quarter-square triangles a bit bigger and then trim the finished piece to the correct size. I guess I'm not precise enough to do it without trimming.

Julia > Good morning all.

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Julia in MN

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Susan Laity Price

Howdy!

"...what are the limits of paper piecing?"

er... running out of paper. ;->

R/Sandy- not a paper-piecer (tried it, moved on); my lqs boss was an expert at paper piecing, including curves; awesome

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Sandy Ellison

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