Reetzbobeetz wrote:


Well folks, I'm down to an hour per double strip, so I figure I have at least 12 hours of piecing to finish this month's section. Thank goodness I'm retired!!!! I'm hoping that in a few more strips, I'll have this on automatic. I thought I had all the pieces cut then realized I only had half of them cut, but cutting is the easy part. Thank goodness for audiobooks!

I too have "abandoned ship" with the Striplate method, and started paper piecing. This is my first time and love the paper piece method along with the finished result it is so nice and perfect. Thanks Margo for the videos and great instructions, it was such a big help.

suehenyon wrote:
Sue, if you are paper piecing with the templates, you may cut your 3" strips across the width of the fabric (not lengthwise) so that the grain line is along the wide bottom of the triangles. Or...you may cut them along the lenghwise grain. You just don't want the wide bottom of the triangles on a bias grain.

You will run out of fabric, but more is going to be sent to everyone who purchased the kit.

Thanks for the link

Connie, I also have a Featherweight and I love it too! I always do my paper piecing on it, it works so much better, and I don't get slipping as I do with my Bernina. It's a great little machine.

Linda

http://tinyurl.com/alae7yc

for the Amazon link to the Wahl trimmer

I purchased my seam ripper last week from a vendor at the Myrtle Beach Quilt Party. Brenda Arrowood at http://www.schoolhousequiltsnc.com. She will do mail orders, but I don't know if she will ship internationally. The model number on the clippers is 9962. It came in a bag labeled "The Quick Ripper" with website http://www.jmichellewatts.com.

I finally got a strip paper-pieced that covers all the needed lines. Now to cut the kit fabric. Are we to cut the fabric for paper piecing per the original instructions (two 18" x WOF). I gather we then cut these strips into 3" strips along the lengthwise grain?
I'm using templates that have 3/8" outside the stitching line. Do you think I'll have enough fabric?

that seam ripper looks awsome - says me who uses a stilleto....

Please mention the model name. Amazon has several Wahl models

Where do you find the wonderful seam ripper?
"battery-operated seam ripper! It looks like mini barber's clippers, and in fact is made by Wahl, who makes haircutting supplies"

Another observation, this time about paper piecing. I do 99% of my sewing on my 15+ year old Bernina 1530, which I greatly love. I started my paper piecing yesterday, and things were going fairly well, except that the bottom piece of fabric tended to get caught and shifted by the feed dogs. On a hunch, I pulled out the Featherweight I inherited from my dear MIL, and tried paper piecing on it. It was AWESOME! The fabric slides in smoothly, and it sews such a lovely short stitch. Has anyone else had the same experience? Is it just that the feed dogs get nice and smooth after 60 years of use?

Cool tool Connie!!

Wow Connie, that looks llike an awesome gadget. Will have to look for one. Sorry to hear you were having trouble, but paper piecing should go smoothly for you (that's the route I took from the beginning).
Lori