English paper quilting templates

On this page you will find free English paper piecing patterns that are so fun and fabulous! You will find many templates to print, cut and sew. Just take a look at our Heart project. For this project you will use jewel paper pieces to create the hearts in this English paper piecing pattern. The Star of Bethlehem project uses different shapes, such as diamond, square, triangle, and house shapes to create a beautiful star design.

As you scroll through the English paper piecing patterns for free, you are definitely going to find the right project for you. We have free patterns for beginners, along with many patterns that you will enjoy if you have a lot of English paper piecing experience! The bunny rabbit English paper piecing pattern, which is a nice small and easy project and is great for beginners, uses only a few hexies to make the bunny, which is then appliqued onto a tea towel, shirt, tote bag, etc.

If you want a refresher on applique, please check out our applique and English paper piecing topic page. The simple DIY hexie hand towel hexagon paper piecing pattern is a great scrap busting project and shows you a fun and easy way to give hexagon paper piecing a try.

You will only need five hexies, and after they are hand joined, the finished piece is sewn by machine onto the hand towel. Sew easy! If you have been Hexagon paper piecing and just love it, you are going to find the English Paper Piecing Travel Kit a must have! The travel kit, which holds fat quarters, spools of thread and has a pocket for organizing your stitched hexies, is made out of hexagon paper piecing! I think it's an amazing project and would be so useful!

One project here that is very unique is the Fat Quarter Hexagon Clock! Only one fat quarter is needed to make the hexagons for the clock, which are then glued together for the clock face. You simply add the clock mechanism to finish it off! Scroll down this page to find free English paper piecing patterns for things like placemats, table runners, hot pads, pincushions, and a whole lot more! You may find that English paper piecing is addictive once you get started!

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A free EPP geometric bunny rabbit applique pattern. Swoodson Says. This is a great fabric scrap-busting project and a fun way to give English paper piecing hexies a try! The Yellow Birdhouse. Make a cute DIY hexie placemat with fussy cut, English paper pieced hexagons. A great scrap-busting project for beautiful prints. Here is a free template to make a little EPP butterfly for applique.

Vintage Sewing Box. With this free English paper piecing project, create a travel kit for taking your hand sewing on the road. It has three pockets to hold everything needed. Red Handled Scissors. We can combine these hexagons with other shapes, like half-hexagons, diamonds and triangles, to make new quilt designs. Here are just a few simple designs. So I thought to make for you sheets with these shapes, too. Again, review the technique explained for cutting hexagons. We will use the same technique for these shapes, as well.

This is the half-hexagon sheet. You cut the shapes in the same way we cut the hexagon, there is just one more vertical cut for each group of hexies. Happy Sewing! What type of paper do you use when doing EPP? I have seen card stock and another type that is done on some kind of iron on. What do you prefer and what method do you use to make your pieces?

Want to be updated when there is Today's Quilter news? We already knew EPP was an addictive technique. After all, kaleidoscopic quilt tops are hot stuff in the quilting world, with La Passacaglia fans sharing their mind-bogglingly intricate creations all over our social media feeds. Laura has been sewing since she was a child and quilting for most of her adult life.

Her work has been published in several quilting and craft magazines including Love Patchwork and Quilting, Mollie Makes and Simply Sewing. She loves teaching and often runs workshops at The Festival of Quilts.