New wash away EPP papers

Well while cruising through yesterday's Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks featured designers I came across what looks like an amazing product...   Hugs ‘n Kisses Appliqué paper which is a 50% soluble natural paper with glue on one side. You can print on it using a bubble jet printer, iron the paper onto your fabric, baste as per normal and whip stitch and then wash away. Helen has the papers precut in certain sizes but also explains about using the paper for printing your own templates.

Check out the post here for a good tutorial, with plenty of photos on how to use it and check out here if you want to buy any.  

Looks like a great product which I will have to try..... will let you know how I go with it... wonder if it is good enough to convert me from regular piecing to an EPP fanatic:)

Another Great Link for EPP

In the Raconteur yahoo group there are some links to useful sites. These have been added whenever anyone recommended it and until now I haven't had a chance to actually check them out.
Today I decided to have a look at one of these, flossieteacakes and found it a wealth of information.
Although Florence says it will be just a quick post she does give a lot of information, so this is another brew up a coffee first type of web pages. The post was written from a beginner's point of view as she has only recently started using this method so is perfect for those of you who have also decided to try it particularly for the miniature Raconteur.
Just a short summary to the topics she covers

• What is EPP?
• Fabric Choice 
• Books and Patterns and Doing Your Own Thing - 
• Paper Choice 
• Creating Shape Templates 
• Making the templates for cutting the fabric
• Cutting the Fabric 
• Basting the fabrics around the paper
• Wrapping the fabric around the paper
• Thread 
• Thinking about needles
• Types of stitches - whip stitch vs ladder stitch and how many stitches
• How to sew it together
• clever tips
• Storage
• Removing the papers
• Over to the experts

Lots of good information and worth a cup of coffee.

Sue Daley's Youtube videos for EPP

Sue Daley

Sue Daley is the queen of English paper piecing and she has now released a set of videos to show you how to get everything just right.

http://www.suedaleydesigns.com/my-new-youtube-channel/

On her website you will find not only all the bibs and bobs that you need for regular paper piecing but lots of inspiration and new ides as well as a new video tutorial series that may teach you everything you need to know about EPP.
Episode 1 was all about using hexagons while episode 2 goes onto using six pointed stars. Each video is just 15mins so brew up a coffee and settle down to check them out..one for today, one for tomorrow and while you are there if you subscribe you will receive an email each week as Sue uploads the latest video... well worth the coffee break