How To Do English Paper Piecing | What is EPP? | Patchwork Tutorial For Beginners

[@amypratt9718]

I’ve watched this video 10+ times! I’m just starting EPP and yours are so beautiful! Completely inspiring 😍

[@lhenryritchie]

I am hooked... I've been making masks and have lots of scrap, and am making good progress

[@Eva-dy9qy]

Oh wow you might have converted me - I always stayed away from quilting as it looked so fiddly but Nikki made it appear genuinely enjoyable, I might give it a go some time!

[@StitchSisters]

thats great, you won't regret it !!

[@Kate98755]

making my first one, i feel like this is like pulling weeds, which i find therapeutic...probably not a good analogy for others, but i find this a quiet activity that allows me to daydream, so relaxing, like embroidery.

[@maryoconnor1396]

Enjoyed your video very much thank you to both of you

[@donnaturnbull1190]

I have been given a Sizzix, but I can't find hexi dies anywhere. Would you or anyone reading this know where to get them? Sizzix does not have them.

[@StitchSisters]

You could try ebay, amazon or even craft sites/groups on Facebook etc

[@vickiseals9742]

Love hand quilting. So relaxing. Thanks for sharing your beautiful quilts.

[@sarahosmari7870]

EPP fantastic work Nikki I love the colours you are so right use all your small pieces of fabric to create something just like you have. Waist nothing thsnk you for sharing stitch sisters 😊 😊 ❤ ❤

[@michele3939]

Great video- fun and informative! Now I'm wondering how you sandwich and bind an EPP quilt

[@StitchSisters]

We have a second video on how to finish off your epp quilt

[@michele3939]

WHAT?! Wow! Thank you. Just found you yesterday so very excited for the response. Will 100% watch the other video. (btw, your inst post was bright & cherry, perfect for a dreary January day) xoxo

[@maryoconnor1396]

The purple one is grandmothers flower garden I a doing the same one you do beautiful work

[@paulohlsson27]

Hi Mary, how's your day going with you?

[@carolineduncan1674]

Just discovered you both and your channel ,have subscribed as defnatley will want to watch more ,I'm just starting paper piecing x

[@elainethomas54]

Really helpful thank you. 👍

[@shaunastitches]

I like your relaxed attitude and minimal rules! Those are some beautiful quilts.

[@ChefRondaE]

I'm starting my 1st EPP. Each flower will have a theme, cooking, sewing and people.in my life & what represent them for instance my son (baseball, scouts, etc) 1 of my God daughter is in the medical field (microscope, needle, DNA, etc) her parents/my sons Godparents were both in the navy so each one of theirs will be for them (sewing, cooking, a viola, cigar/pipe, navy symbol and more. And the center ill embroidery their names rank and service dates. Some people will have multiple flowers, depending on how long they have been in my life. I started this (only have 1 flower done) as a quiet little project to do while everything fits inside an ice cream bucket with a lid so if I need to sit with someone at a hospital/Dr office.. or just a quiet time.. I have something that can be put away quickly (I also knit & crochet and that takes time to secure your yarn, put it away and what if you run out of yarn.....) this is small... right now I'm just making the single hexagons and then putting them together when I have the right combo.

[@magicalumbrella7151]

Well done you not using glue paper inserts, which is problematic within itself. Tip: hand basting is very quick if you only bate the corners and not through the paper. When sewing the pieces together whip stitch them FLAT not front sides together. In this way, the stitching threads NEVER show in the seams and the finish is incredible. Perfection IS achievable. Juxtaposing the pieces in this way makes joining large pieces into a quilt far easier to work with, in fact, quite a pleasure rather than fabric wrestling! You can also ease fussy cuts matching to perfection this way very easily. When stitched, paper removal is very quick and easy, you just lift them out to reuse them later. Choose a fabric that is easily stitched by hand as some printed fabrics can be quite tough and are better for machine stitching projects.

[@Edmeri-uk4jk]

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[@jackieboyd7506]

Love your quilts Nicky..I love purple too and just about to start my journey into PEP.. thanks for sharing x

[@karentoynton8948]

Did you make that quilt on your knee the multi coloured one . I have been making an 108 x108 inch in my knee it’s getting very heavy. I started off doing as a grandmothers flower garden but there was a lot of infil so the tried building onto this. , it’s all a bit lopsided, so trying to square it up into this size is taking forever. Hehe. I have been making it for a year. How do you quilt your finished quilts please.

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[@nimuenorth6295]

Thanks for the detailed and easy to follow instructions! EPP is fascinating me and given how much I enjoy hand sewing and using up scraps, I'll definitely give it a try in the future and then refer back to this video.

[@petermatten3315]

Been making these for fifty years, don't just stick to hexagons, there are pentagon's, diamonds, long diamonds, triangles, and coffins too.

[@nickytaylor1784]

Beautiful quilts! Obviously all made with love. I must admit I use the sewline fabric glue pen to attach the fabric to the card, as the fabric peels off later when you want to remove the card and you can still re use it. Love all your videos, thanks! x

[@ronnidoggett2333]

Thankyou nice to know there are people as mad as me on hexagons, I wish i had found you a long time ago, great instructions thank you x

[@paulohlsson27]

Hi Ronni, how's your day going with you?

[@bellepoupee61]

Wow I always was wondering how to make those, now I have to start attacking my pile of cotton scraps! You have magical fingers! Thank you so much for this vlog! I have a quilt in process but my hubby said it is to noisy in the living room LOL! Imagine a little featherweight too noisy! But now I can give this a go! Christine ;-)

[@StitchSisters]

Christine Lafleur 😀. Hope you enjoy it 😘

[@ksannini9128]

What a fabulous tutorial! I’m definitely going to try this and so excited to give it a go. Your quilts are so beautiful 😍 The red white and blues my fav xxx

[@shirleybowles6661]

We called that pattern a bow tie pattern. Beautiful quilts!

[@StitchSisters]

thank you very much

[@veemcg3682]

Traditionally here in Ireland we baste our fabric around our paper shapes without stitching through the paper.... Greetings cards are great to use for cutting out the hexagons.

[@deidrabenson361]

❤️❤️❤️

[@edelmirarios5916]

Wow I loved them, they're so beautiful. You convinced me to start on one.

[@StitchSisters]

Fantastic !

[@alisonblyth9482]

I only just watched this as tempted to give it a go; odd thing is I just dreamed about a big floppy 70s style sun hat made out of scraps just like this!

[@JenSutton2023]

Loved this! When do you take out the other papers, not just the middle one?

[@StitchSisters]

You can do it as you start to sew your flowers together. I usually sew a few together then take out all the papers at once. You should always leave the papers in the hexies around the edge.

[@JenSutton2023]

@@StitchSisters thank you. A really interesting series of videos. Your enthusiasm for the work shines through.

[@CathyJohnson313]

This has inspired me to get back to EPP. As I’m new to sewing I don’t have many scraps so have started with my husbands old shirts! Have say I cheat with the papers and have a hexi hole punch. Love that you cut the fabric into squares, what size do you cut them?

[@StitchSisters]

Catherine Johnson for the 1” hexagon I cut a 2.5” square of fabric

[@tinkerbell9399]

Hi ladies. New subscriber here. I loved this video. You explain everything so well. I am inspired by you both. Will sit with a cuppa and catch up with some more. Thanks for sharing. Regards Lesley x

[@StitchSisters]

Welcome Lesley, so glad you found us ❤️

[@jessiecarlson8492]

I thought it was the diameter too and I ordered 2 inch paper hexagons. But it is what it is right now. It's my first one so I think next time I'll do 1 inches

[@stacysfarmhouselife5845]

Would love to see how you sew all three layers together

[@StitchSisters]

just wanted to make sure you had seen our new video on how to complete your epp quilt kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIXMZ4uAibGGrqc

[@jennifersisk6588]

Such great info for a beginner like me! And I love your accent too! Thanks again.

[@ellabella8506]

I was taught this way about 30 years ago in Patchwork class - I thought it was the only method. Nice to know it has a name.

[@sangitapai]

Very nice explanation 🎉,I am about to get ready for EPP now!

[@rinchhensherpa6972]

Could you please do a scallop or shell EPP please. I really wana make these in silk and velvet is that possible? Or not a good fabric for the project?

[@StitchSisters]

Im not sure that velvet would work because of the pile of the fabric. Silk would work though

[@soniatriana9091]

Wow! What very beautiful quilts you’ve made!! And, you’re both very easy to listen to, so this was great fun watching this video!! I hope to watch more of your channel!! Thanks!!

[@StitchSisters]

Thank you so much!

[@kellyhipkins5616]

OMGOSH that was wonderful im new to epp. Thanks so much for sharing

[@StitchSisters]

You are so welcome!

[@tammymasson2343]

Wow! I always wondered how this kind of quilt was created! Fascinating! And such lovely quilts you've made!!!

[@StitchSisters]

Hope you decide to give it a go Tammy x

[@jach9980]

Thank you so much for this video. It bought back so many memories of making quilts with my mum & sisters & I've been wondering for ages how to recreate one. I never knew it was called EPP!! So glad I've now got a use for my scraps xx

[@StitchSisters]

Jac H that’s fantastic, I hope you have a go at it 😘

[@elizabethwilson5349]

Such beautiful workmanship! They are all gorgeous pieces of art! Thanks for sharing!

[@StitchSisters]

Thank you so much

[@HandmadeByDitsyTulip]

You have just prompted me to get my hexi quilt back out that I started last year, I love how relaxing it is to Hand Sew them and the small Hexi’s are my fave too. I use freezer paper to do the paper piecing as it presses to temporarily fuse to the fabric and a role goes a very long way ☺️ great video thankyou 💖

[@judgeatreebyitsfrui]

Very good explanation

[@StitchSisters]

Thanks and you are very welcome

[@kathrynsweetzer7438]

That was brilliant, Nikki. Never thought about quilting as being so easy. I imagined it'd be complicated machine sewing. I may even be tempted to try it, on a small scale 😬, to see how I go. Love you two and your vlogs! 💕

[@StitchSisters]

Kathryn Sweetzer aww thank you. Start out small Kathryn, just aim to make a cushion cover or a small table runner....after that you’ll be addicted !!

[@maureencullen1008]

A brilliant explanation.Would you,please, be able to show how you finish the whole quilt.They were beautiful and it's lovely to think future generations will enjoy them-history in a quilt.

[@StitchSisters]

Maureen Cullen yes that’s a great idea. Maybe once I’m finished the one I’m working on I’ll do a tutorial on how to finish it.

[@StitchSisters]

Maureen just wanted to make sure you had seen our video on how to complete your epp quilt kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIXMZ4uAibGGrqc

[@karentoynton8948]

Could you please tell me approximately how big you would make your material square if your hexagon is 1.75 cm. Thank you for showing us how to do these. I have wanted to do hexagons for a quilt for ages. Been been bothered about best way to do it. You have made so much sense. Thank you.

[@StitchSisters]

Is the 1.75cm the length across a side or across the widest point? Ideally you need about 0.75-1cm excess around all the edges to wrap around. It doesn’t need to be exact.

[@riverunner9978]

Just beautiful quilts! I’m just starting on this paper piecing journey! Thank you!

[@StitchSisters]

Enjoy !

[@maryoconnor1396]

Enjoyed your videos very much keep stitching

[@barbarapalmer1211]

hi girls absoluteyl love watching you from brisbane australia . i was wondering if you could tell or show me how to sew the hexagons in a row and how many would you sew together at once. i have made a lot and wondering how to make it easier

[@StitchSisters]

Hi Barbara Sewing together in a row is relatively easy. Just see two hexies together on any straight edge. You then continue to sew another on the opposite straight edge. Sew two separate rows like this and then fit them into each other like a jigsaw puzzle and sew 🧵

[@mariamarfil1620]

I am mesmerized! By hand, unbelievable! You are a pleasure to watch! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️

[@munchkinheaven]

Brill I thought I was the only one who wanted to do patchwork by hand!, seeing you using squares will help me a great deal as my hands have arthritis and it will help me to have a bit more fabric to hold down the paper, can you give us some info on your backing material please.

[@StitchSisters]

There is a video tutorial coming next week on how to finish your quilt 🥰

[@beckytheobsessedstitcher1170]

FANTASTIC!!! I have seen other tutorials but I love your specific method!!! Gorgeous!!

[@elizabethlane880]

Nikki you got me onto EPP! Thankyou lovelies. Now I'm doing it with glue basting - have you tried it? It's so fast... I love glue basting. EPP is really my comfort in life atm :)

[@sandraobrien8705]

Really enjoyed seeing the quilts Nikki. Could you show us how you finish them with backing and so on? I think I will have a go at one of these.

[@StitchSisters]

Sandra, just wanted to make sure you had seen our new video on how to complete your epp quilt kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIXMZ4uAibGGrqc

[@jenniferayim889]

I love it very much .. how I wish I make this 😘😘😘

[@Lula22-h2q]

Great video Nikki. Thanks for sharing it.

[@bonnielindsey8663]

Thank you for sharing. You made it very clear and easy to do.

[@paulohlsson27]

Hi Bonnie, how's your day going with you?

[@madwitch9977]

really helpful tutorial and i love your quilts, subbed and will enjoy watching while I quilt!

[@itsjustlisajay]

When basting, do you pierce the fabric and paper!?

[@StitchSisters]

Yes sew through both paper and fabric

[@paramjitpammy1547]

Wow so beautiful but i dont know english ☹️

[@sewlolita8845]

I'm so happy this video popped up when I was sewing. My friend from church found out she and her husband are having a baby girl and I wanted to make a quilt but was afraid it was going to be to overwhelming. You explained it amazingly. I'm going to give it a try. Thank you so much

[@bettygentry9672]

Thanks! Looks like a great project

[@kathyn3978]

I am just starting a hexagon quilt. I have lots of scraps from all the masks I’ve made in the last few months and when I need more, I’ll look for a jelly roll that’s already 2-1/2” wide. I’m also using squares like you (lot less cutting) but my basting is not going through the paper and it’s holding very well. And I love that you’re not using glue. Thank you for sharing your techniques and I can’t wait to see how to finish a quilt like this!❤️

[@kiztorres3218]

I loved your tutorial. Very clear explanation. I save the light pieces of cardboard that stockings come wrapped around to make paper pieces. You can buy hexagon/ pentagon/ square/ triangle... Templates online. To hold the fabric while your sewing you can also use little "sew tite magnets" on Amazon too. Please let Macy's be on camera! Fluffy babies are wonderful !❤️

[@16Table]

Beautiful Quilts, it brought back many memories of when I was 12, making a bag and purse from the hexagons and paper. I don’t make quilts but I sew lots now, I guess we always carry our creativity with us, throughout of lives, thanks for showing us 😊

[@paulohlsson27]

Hi Liz, how's your day going with you?

[@macdaiddavidson8051]

I just printed and fussy cut my first hexagons. Tomorrow I will start collecting scraps of 100% cotton to start my first English Paper Piecing project!

[@lilisass7128]

Hi - first time I met you two, you are wonderfull. I want to try on epp, maybe a smalle projekt first, but would love to do a cover, for the bed in our caravan, with fabrics bought on hollidays around Europe. One question, what do you do, with the back, if I want my quilt to be 150x200 no fabrics are wide enough.....

[@StitchSisters]

You can piece the back using two or more pieces of fabric Check out our Part 2 video for how to finish your epp quilt 👍🏼

[@paulohlsson27]

Hi Lili Sass, how's your day going with you?

[@slg3417]

Totally enjoyed your very detailed and informative video. I am ready to start!

[@StitchSisters]

Yeah !!!! Enjoy your sewing

[@eloisegoshert9234]

Beautiful thank you for sharing

[@williamdavidhalbert5695]

Wonderful tutorial! I prefer the glue method but this method works very well. Great that You brought up the ecological point as well!!

[@akabga]

My mother inherited her great-grandmother's hexagonal quilt, which was made from old cotton ties and boxer shorts. I'm a block quilter and was always fascinated at how these quilts are pieced together. I would stare at the pieces trying to reverse engineer those beautiful corners! In America, this is type of quilting is out of vogue, so I could never find a book in any library craft section with instructions. I didn't even know what this type of quilting was called until I stumbled upon this video today! I'm so grateful to you for creating this video. I'm so grateful to finally know how to do this. But, at the same time, it's a bitter sweet moment, because I mourn over all the EPP quilts I could've made over the last 25 years.

[@claudettemonty4077]

When I do EPP, I use special sewing glue and applied it just near the side of the card and it’s stay good. When you will wash your quilt, the glue will go away. It’s more quick than the manual basting with thread.

[@raquelseydewitz203]

Thanks! This is so timely! Fb to cut some hexagons!💠

[@StitchSisters]

You are so welcome!

[@macdaiddavidson8051]

Very informative. I’ve been wondering how it all went together. I’ve made a log cabin quilt but have wondered about this type of quilt. Now I will be able to give it a try. Thank you for your careful instructions.

[@sewsewsewist785]

Really lovely quilts! Can u do a diy video of this? Been wanting to make a quilt for my mother, but have zero knowledge of quilt making...

[@susanmazzanti5643]

The grandmother's flower garden usually has one round of background fabric around the flowers. During the early part 9h the 1940's I was old enough to remember and too young for school and I played under the quilting frame while my grandmother quilted. I learned a lot during that time but I have only made one quilt and it was done on an overlooked and machine quilted. It was a larger baby quilt for a granddaughter who was expecting her first child.

[@heatherr9201]

Watched this and started my own! I have been thinking about hexi quilt and wanted something else portable .... wasn’t quite sure I understood how to do it over past months when I had looked at it, but watch this and I am off! Thank you

[@janspenno2241]

oooh well good for you but I cannot contemplate the paper piecing. I started quilting a few years ago and love it but not the paper piecing. UGH. good that you have the patience. Love quilting and nice to see your quilts Nikki

[@ginawells8230]

Lots of good hints 🇨🇦❤️

[@claudettemonty4077]

The last one that you didn’t have enough fabric: do you know how much fabric you bought the violet and the rest because I don’t want to miss fabric to do a big one like yours. Marvellous one!

[@rhondaziman562]

Squeak. You have made me want to make a quilt! I love your scrappy ones and especially the random nature. Yay you! Also marvellous because I share your need to use ALL the fabric! I take my small unuseable scraps to our charity shops, who sell them as rags, I think they end up as insulation. So absolutely none of my fabric goes in the bin. Some of my nicer scraps I give to my daughters school for the kids art projects. Thank you for this, I may start my first quilt on our family holiday!

[@katysuemarfil2148]

Thank you ladies!!! Can’t wait to try! Just got a great idea for a gift for my brother who loves the settlers of catan game which is all hexagons!!!

[@judithredd6677]

I am brand new to EPP and so far I love it. Thanks to you two I have enjoyed watching the video and learning something new. :)

[@sherib4709]

Both of you are just darling. thanks so much for sharing. Beautiful work

[@StitchSisters]

Thank you so much!

[@paulohlsson27]

Hi Sharon, how's your day going with you?

[@sandrasaddleman581]

Enjoyed this tutorial

[@fludrbywest3886]

Sew awesome❣️❣️😍🤩💖🤩😍❣️

[@melindaert3677]

I love this video. Just discovered you two. Beautiful quilting.

[@beecrafty4u472]

Hi Ladies Thank you so much for this tutorial x I have been wanting to have a go at EPP and your video has given me the confidence to have a go. With the winter ❄️ coming on I can’t wait to give it a go and being a bee 🐝 keeper the winter is a great time to try it out 😊I have so many bee 🐝 fabric scraps that I’m going to use them 😌thank again 🧵✂️🧵

[@kelposch2839]

I like that you tied these quilts when finished instead of quilting them. Really great quilts and great explanation on how to EPP

[@THR3NA]

You gals are adorable!

[@StitchSisters]

Thank you!! 😊

[@paulohlsson27]

how's your day going with you?

[@carolhill1338]

Thank you Nikki, I usually machine quilt but am now very interested in trying EPPx

[@christinebell8980]

So thrilled to see how you do English paper piecing. I am going to give this a go. Thanks.

[@kayallan1547]

Fantastic - thank you - it must be 40 years since I made a cushion cover and about to do another - lockdown here we come!

[@Ms410410]

Must you use cotton thread to sew hexagons together? Or is 100% all-purpose polyester durable enough?

[@StitchSisters]

Either is fine

[@Ms410410]

@@StitchSisters thank you so much. Love your channel

[@melissasponseller2693]

Thank so many great tips

[@becauseimcrafty]

Those are beautiful!!! Love the idea, skill.....and patience needed to create those hexagons :)

[@susanmazzanti5643]

The pattern is Grandma's Garden. I've never seen it paper pieced before. The ladies who quilted with Grandma when I was a child, pieced it by hand.

[@annlenthall9657]

Nikki you should be so proud they are beautiful xx all of them. Thank you girls.

[@joannewilliams9428]

So enjoyed this video; im a dressmaker but wondered for a while how to go about quilting... Nikki you have inspired me and Im going to have a go!! X

[@TheAntiDoteNZ]

Well that was just fabulous. TBH I have not had the enthusiasm for quilting as I much prefer to wear my sewing, but this was exciting to see and I am now conflicted as to whether I sit by son's bedside for 7 days in hospital next week knitting a cardy (my new found hobby for chillaxing on the sofa in front of tv) or whether I now be the obsessed lady cutting little hexagons out and wrapping them up in fabric as I have a couple of big bags of scrap fabric that I had no idea what to do with and chucking them in the bin seemed so sacreligeous, obviously I was waiting for this video! Thanks ladies for this visit into quiltmania.

[@StitchSisters]

Julie Halligan thanks Julie ! Let me know if you decide to go down the EPP route.....I guarantee you won’t regret it.