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| Celestial Star Quilt |
Paper pieces are a great technique for foundation and you'll have a blast doing them, but if you're tired of dealing with those little bits of paper clogging your seam lines you'll find this tutorial introduction helpful. Designed by Cristy Fincher of Purple Daisies Quilting, the Celestial Star block is one of the more innovative techniques of modern quilting: Paperless Paper Piecing.
Paperless Paper Piecing - What makes it different?
Paperless Paper Piecing was originally created by award winning quilter Sharon Schamber and modified by Cristy Fincher, it is the same alignment that is used in traditional paper foundation piecing but without paper.
The following are key details and pattern essentials:
- Significantly less paper: With traditional paper piecing, you will need to print out a foundation for each and every piece you put together. Using this technique, only two copies of each of the primary template units are needed (one on regular paper to view and one on freezer paper).
- Precision Layering and Glue Basting: Rather than stitching through paper backing, when layering fabrics they are trimmed, folded over reusable freezer paper edges and temporarily secured by the use of washable school glue with a MicroFine tip and spray starch.
- Paper-Free Assembly: The patches have already been prepped and glued beforehand in order that you sew fabric-to-fabric. Your seams remain clean, flat and without paper residue.
Final Thought
While the Celestial Star block has star points radiating from it, Paperless Paper Piecing breaks down complicated joinery into easy and manageable steps. You save paper, preserve seam stress and get perfect star points every time by cutting out the paper tearing and using reusable freezer paper guides instead.
