Spotlight: Olesya Lebedenko, Quilter and Designer
After finding it hard to maintain a creative life in war-torn Ukraine, Olesya Lebedenko closed her business and emigrated to Canada. It all just felt right during a 2017 visit,...
Foundation Piecing
Make precise quilt blocks with foundation paper piecing. You simply stich on the pattern lines printed on foundation piecing paper, then remove the paper when you finish sewing the block. If you don’t want to remove papers, you can piece on a muslin foundation that stays in your quilt. No fussy 1/4-inch seams with foundation piecing – just stitch on the line and you are foundation piecing quilts!
Browse our paper piecing projects for your own inspiration.
Paper Foundation Pieced Quilts & Quilters
Paper Pieced Kaleidoscope Quilt
Oh, how I love designing in Electric Quilt! The drawing tools helped me design one side of a paper-piecing-friendly 60-degree triangle and mirror-image it: I made six of them. I...
Spotlight: Ingrid Alteneder, Quilt Designer
If you think that foundation paper piecing patterns are predictable, you have not met Ingrid Alteneder. From her third-floor studio in Frankfurt, Germany, Ingrid breaks images down into basic geometric...
More Foundation Piecing
Spotlight: Carol Doak, Foundation Paper Piecing
Once foundation paper piecing designer Carol Doak found her signature quilting technique, she never looked back. After designing hundreds of patterns and writing dozens of books, Carol continues to share…
Spotlight: Mary Hertel, Paper Piecing Pattern Designer
With her whimsical animals and happy characters, paper piecing pattern designer Mary Hertel takes you along as she designs quilts for kids and kids-at-heart. Her designs have a youthful and…
Spotlight: Amy Friend, Modern Quilt Designer
Challenging herself to bring floral designs to the world of modern quilting, quilt designer Amy Friend faced a challenge: how to render the curves of nature with the straight lines…
Spotlight: Olesya Lebedenko, Quilter and Designer
After finding it hard to maintain a creative life in war-torn Ukraine, Olesya Lebedenko closed her business and emigrated to Canada. It all just felt right during a 2017 visit,… Spotlight: Ingrid Alteneder, Quilt Designer
If you think that foundation paper piecing patterns are predictable, you have not met Ingrid Alteneder. From her third-floor studio in Frankfurt, Germany, Ingrid breaks images down into basic geometric…
Spotlight: Amy Pabst, Quilter
It's worth stepping up close to get a good look at the work of Amy Pabst. She quilts in miniature, with thousands of pieces paying homage to quilters of the…
Scrap-Happy Stash-Busting Quilts
I love scraps. To me, they are the comfort food of quilts. My first contact with quilts was not the ornate Baltimore Album quilts or the intricately hand quilted whole…
Design Challenge Art Quilts
For a number of years, I have had the privilege of gathering with a talented group of fiber artists that studied with Lorraine Torrence. The "Off Grain Stitchers" continue to…