English Paper Piecing, or EPP
I’ve been ‘raking’ through boxes of fabric and supplies that I haven’t seen in over five years. It was a bit like Christmas seeing stuff that I'd long forgotten about.
I came across a box of various unfinished ‘fussy cut’ hexagon rosettes. I knew I was never going to make these hexagons into quilts. Being one of those people that doesn't really have many UFOs, (unfinished objects), I decided to use them in small projects now before starting on anything new.
So, I made the hexies into pieces of fabric big enough to make shopping bags or totes. Layered the “fabric” up with wadding and backing and quilted it on my longarm, just like a quilt…
I used the three spare hexagons on a huge pocket on the back of the black bag, I divided it into three sections that will be really handy coz they go right down to the bottom...
Because these are quilted with wadding inside they are really sturdy bags. At present I'm using them to deliver quilts when necessary, but later I'm sure they will be used for shopping totes...
Well, that was a simple blog post but it wasn't without a few 'incidents', it was a bit of a palaver, adding photos hasn't gotten any easier, in the end I had to email the photos from my phone to my laptop/PC. What good is a blog without photos??
If you have any good tips about resizing photos on your iphone and blogging directly from your iphone please feel free to share....