a quick paper pieced Valentine’s Heart

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Since right now is the day earlier than Valentine’s Day, what higher than a fast coronary heart mission?

I made a decision I needed to do a paper pieced coronary heart for the entrance of a closet door. (I have already got the bigger Valentines Day wall hanging.) I ended up at Marcia’s Crafty Sewing and Quilting. She had a free sample for a paper pieced 7” Crazee Patch coronary heart.  I needed it a little bit bigger than 7” so I enlarged it to 10”. The one downside with that’s that I felt it wanted yet another piece within the on the appropriate aspect, so I added one. 

Paper piecing is fairly straight ahead, besides you must do it the other way up. The simple half is you comply with the instructions for the order the items are put collectively. Since I added yet another piece, I needed to regulate the order of the piecing.

To start, you place piece 1 and piece 2, proper sides collectively on high of the sample about 1/4” previous the stitching line for items 1 and a pair of.  You don’t should be actual right here. Having a light-weight field or a powerful lamp helps with this. Set your stitching machine for a sew size of about 1.5. You may be tearing the paper again off and also you don’t wish to pull the stitches an excessive amount of. One other factor. It helps to pin the 2 items collectively on the sew line and flip the highest one over and to ensure it covers the realm it’s speculated to when the material is flipped over. That is fairly straightforward with the primary piece laid down, however the one that’s on high can simply be lower quick. My suggestion is to chop generously.

For stitching you possibly can pin the 2 items in place in order for you (not on the sew line). I normally don’t, however then you definately flip the entire piece over—material on the underside, paper on high, and stitch precisely alongside the road that’s proven on the paper. It’s good a concept to again sew a few stitches beginning and stopping. Bear in mind you’ll be pulling the paper off.  Now flip all the pieces again over and iron the 2 items flat in opposition to the again of the paper. The aspect that doesn’t have the design.

I’ve discovered one of the simplest ways to proceed is to go to the subsequent line the place you’ll be including a chunk and fold the paper again precisely on that line and utilizing a ruler lower the earlier material 1/4” previous the stitching line. That approach you possibly can simply place the subsequent piece on high, proper sides collectively, uncooked edges matching, after which flip the entire thing over and stitch on the road once more. If this appears laborious to grasp, I’ll have video hyperlinks beneath.

When it’s all sewn collectively, it seems to be like this from the again the place you probably did all the stitching.

Now you  fastidiously pull the paper off. This is the reason you probably did quick stitches to make this simpler. The entrance seems to be like this:

After ultimate urgent on a wool mat, some quilting, and binding, that is what it seems to be like

Some tutorials for paper piecing, additionally referred to as Basis piecing, are beneath:

here

and here

And a pdf is here.

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