hi and welcome to Darvanalee Designs Studio my name's Nicole Reed and today
we're going to be looking at some English paper piecing we're going to
make this cute little mug rug so let's get started
today we're going to be making as I said in the intro a simple little mug rug or
a little table topper that you can sit under a pot plant or anything like that
so I'm going to show you some of the things that I use went on paper piecing
and then I'm going to show you the different ways of doing it so today
we're going to be actually working with 1-inch hexagons okay and to measure if
you've got 1-inch hexagons you need to measure this side here so each side
should measure one inch so if you've got some hexagons hexagons papers at home
and you're not too sure what they are just measure along here and that will
tell you what it is so today we're using a one inch hexagon but as you can see
there are a variety of different sizes so this one here is a half an inch
hexagon and I get these from sue daily and we stock them on our website and you
can see here then we have a one and a half inch X agon so we have a variety of
different sizes and there's many many different shapes and in future videos I
will show you those different shapes okay so a few things that I like to use
I like to have a sharp pair of scissors on hand to cut my threads so I always
have these handy and I look there are many different ways of being told that
you should use a milliner's needle or a fine needle so you get cleaner work and
you know you don't see your stitches and all that sort of stuff so there are many
different opinions out there for me I've got quite chunky little fingers and I
find it very hard to hold those mil and the needles I have tried them and they
are great to work with but I just use the John Jane's pebble sharps just your
basic everyday sewing needles and I find that they work really well for me also I
like to use a finer thread so this is a I believe this is a six tier eights
it and it's a lot finer to use so it makes it pretty impossible to see those
stitches when I stitch all my hexagons together so this is you can buy these
die nuts sue Daley has them on her website I occasionally have them on my
website as well I'm actually sold out at the moment I'm waiting on more stock to
come but these are by superior it's a bottom line thread and it's called the
super Bob's doughnut and basically you get I think it's 35 different colors in
it so it makes it very easy to just have that sitting there while you're doing
your hand sewing the majority of the time I use either white light gray or a
cream or a slightly darker cream but then if I'm working with dark colors
such as blacks purples navy blues I've got them to choose from here as well and
I don't have to have a whole spool of the thread so that's maybe something
that you can if you really enjoy doing this technique that's something that you
can look at purchasing I highly recommend that okay so that's the
threads covered now you might be wondering why I've got wonder clips here
well I'm going to show you how what I use my wonder Clips for in a little
while and as you can see I do have some hexagons already wrapped and these I
used to do a little history of these I used to actually do Instagram swaps and
I did a lot of swaps for hexagons so I would make a heap of hexagons and send
them off to a central point and so with a lot of other people and then that
central point would then divvy them up and send them all back to us so this is
a guy this is a good opportunity for me to just show you the different
techniques so you can see this one here you can't see any thread coming through
here and on the back they've actually used the glue basting technique and
that's just where they get their glue pen a lot of people use so line there
are many group ends out on the market I've just got one of these ones I can't
even tell you what brand it is I've had it that long
the writing has worn off it so basically they cut out their hexagon fabric which
is about quarter of an inch bigger than the template itself and then I just put
a little bit of a a little bit of glue there and then they
press that down and they make sure that it's um going over the cardboard and you
can see there these have been sitting in my little box that I have I just have a
little container that has them all in there and it's been sitting in there for
a good 12 to 18 months and you can see it hasn't even come off or anything like
that now you can see this one here this one actually is glued as well and it's
got a little hole in the center and that's what I do with mine I actually
hole punch so I can just get my the end of my quick mpcore or my tailors all and
just lift up that that hexagon out of the fabric and then it's ready to go so
this one here you can see there is some actually blue thread on that and this is
called the basting thread basting method so you can see here wherever they've
folded over the fabric around the the template they've actually stitched down
and that holds that corner into place I like to do more and slightly same method
I prefer this method it takes a little bit longer but I feel that I'm not
struggling to get the templates out because all glues are not the same and
sometimes you can struggle to get it out using the glue and I just find this way
a little bit easier but I have even taken it a step further so you don't
have to worry about going and cutting all these threads because they've
actually gone through the cardboard or the the tete the paper piece and so that
is now attached to that paper so that's the in this one here is the method that
I like to use so you can see here there is no threads on the back on the top
sorry but there are threads on the back so they haven't actually gone through
the paper now you might not be able to see that on camera because it is quite a
faint thread but what they've actually done is they've come down and they've
gone and done a loop which holds this little corner here on and they've come
up and done the same thing again and that's the method that I use I
like to do it very very quickly that way and I don't have to worry about once I
take these papers out which I can show you on this one how easy it is I just
lift up a corner and then I just slide that out and you can see it just holds
its shape nicely now it does hurt you can do that with the glue base as well
but as I said not all glues are equal and sometimes they can give you a little
bit of grief so that's just the different techniques and that technique
is the one that I'm going to use today and I am going to get started with my
pieces over here now for all the things that you need for today I do have a link
it down below to our blog some links to the different products that I'm talking
about today that are available on our website so you can go over there and
have a bit of a look at but you've got this video to show you how to do it okay
so basically all we're going to do is now you need to get yourself seven
little one-inch hexagons okay so that's what I've got here and we need to get
our thread and thread up our needle and you don't necessarily have to use the
bottom line to do this for the the basting side of things you can use any
sort of thread that you want to use for that just when you're sewing them
together I would suggest that you use the the bottom line you just want to pop
the little knot doesn't it can be any sort of knot you want just pop a little
knot into the end of it like so then you grab your needle and you grab your piece
of fabric
and you just place it on there and what do I like to do is I just like to get
rid of some of this excess as well and try and get myself a nice consistent
Steam seam allowance and now I'm ready to fold over my first piece so as I said
you can use glue but I don't like to do that so what I do here is I grab myself
a little wonder clip and I hold that in place and then I go to the next one and
just finger pressing I just again roll that over now if you find that you all
see how your I've pushed that over and I don't have an even seam allowance on
this side so what I like to do is also pop a pin in
okay and I know that that's going to hold it in place so again I roll that
over and I just pop a 1/2 clip in and then I roll this side over grab myself a
wonder clip and hold that in place and I keep working around in the same
direction okay so now what I'm going to do is I know that that's holding in
place and then I can just move that out of the way and then what I'm going to do
is just actually come up in that crease just underneath it but not going through
the cardboard and I'm going to pull that through and then I'm just going to do a
little loop like so and that's going to hold that corner in place so again I
make sure that my fabric is all nice and taut up against the edge of the of the
hexagon and then I'm going to go over to my next joint again come under give it a
little bit of a pull and just do that little loop like so and you can see
there that that's holding it in place I've got a nice clean corner there point
and it's not going to move and I'm just going to continue doing that all the way
around and from this point you don't really have to use the the wonder clips
anymore because it was just to hold it in place
and you can see there I'm just going around but I'm not going through the
cardboard but this is helping me do it means that I won't have to go back later
and snip all those basting stitches and again
and then we're coming around to our last side so we tuck that in and fold that
over and again we just go through the fabric not the cardboard we do a little
bit of a loop we can take that pin out now and you can see that our hexagon is
all covered so at this point I just do a little slip knot and then I can snip
that off I do leave a little bit of a tail and there my hexagon is done so I'm
going to repeat that for the rest of my hexagons okay so you can see that I have
sewn them I've stitched all that onto the hexagons
and basically now what I need to do they're still all a separate unit and
now what I need to do is put them together so basically the gray one is my
Center one and as you can see I've got a little bit of a pattern happening there
what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my gray one and my red one and I'm
going to put them right sides together and just to help me hold them I'm just
going to put a 1/2 clip on there and I'm going to sew a whip stitch fairly close
together and I'm going to start at this corner and I'm going to sew a whip
stitch all the way to this corner and they are just using the needle that I've
been using and the thread that I have here which is a 60 ray this is perfect
for this even though it's cream I'll still shouldn't be able to see my arm
stitches so I'm just going to put a little knot into that and I'm going to
just come underneath here don't know if you can see that on the red one I'm just
going to come underneath here and I'm going to grab that corner of the gray
one and I'm just going to secure that in place now I'm going to come back through
in the same spot and then I'm just going to do a little bit of a slip knot and
I'll do that again
and that's just going to secure that in place now if I take that off you'll be
able to see that I can't even see that stitch ok and we're going to continue to
do a whip stitch now all I'm going to do is grab the edge not going through the
cardboard just the edge of the fabric
of both hexagons and you can see there I'm doing them very close to one another
so you can see there I'll just get that to focus a little bit better you can
just see the the whipstitch I'm going to do all that all the way across
you see there I've just grabbed the gray and the red and I haven't gone through
the cardboard
okay so I've just come up to that corner and I can open that up and you can see
that you cannot see those stitches okay and now I'm going to add my next piece
in so I'll grab my green one so I put them right sides together and then I'm
going to come through that red one put that one to clip on just to hold them in
place so I'm going to come up through that red corner into my gray one
into the gray one from the back and then into the green one and I'm just going to
continue to whip stitch that around
again just going through the top of the fabric and not through the cardboard
you'll know if you're going through the cardboard because it will be difficult
to push the needle through you'll feel a little bit of resistance okay so I've
got to the end and again I'll open that up just to show you and you can see
there that the stitching is like you have to really pull it apart to see
those stitches so you can see there that even though I'm using a cream thread
you're not being able to see it so now I'm going to add my next piece on and
I'm going to continue doing that until I'm ready to add my last piece on and
I'll show you what I do okay so I have sewn everything to the center flower now
of the flower so now what I want to do is attach these side pieces here so
basically all I do is I just fold that in half and this is where I've ended
with the blue one and now I'm going to attach them together so you can just
fold the fabric and the the template in half to make it easier for yourself and
again you're just going to make sure that you're just taking a tiny little
bite of the fabric at the top and attach those two together making sure that
you're getting your corners all aligning up and I always do two stitches in that
corner when I'm going up the sides and you can see there that that's now
attached that quite nicely okay and again I just continue to whip stitch
that all the way up and you're going to repeat that all the way around now
instead of breaking my thread which I don't like to do I just keep my I'm
almost out of thread here so I'm obviously going to rethread my needle
when I get to the top and I should have enough to do it to show you before I
have to change it so again I just keep whip stitching
and I always do two stitches in my corners
and then go through a third time and just do a little slip and you can see
that that's joined it quite nicely now to get over to the next part where I've
got a stitch which is the red to the green I just fold that in half and you
can see this is where I've come out and I just do a couple of jump stitches so I
just go through the seam allowance and then through the seam allowance again
not going through the card until I get to the corner that I need to get to and
then again I just go through the red and the green and I'm doing a corner so I go
through twice and then I just whip stitch up to the end and I do that all
the way around okay so you can see there that we've put everything together and
you can't see any of the stitches I'll give you a nice close-up of that and you
can see that it's all stitched together and now we're ready to turn this into a
mug rug so now what you want to do is you just want to grab your six and a
half inch square okay and you just want to Center that find the center of that
so just fold it in half and then in quarters and just finger press that and
then you can see there that we've got some crease marks so now this is going
to be ready to be sewn onto this so what we've got to do first is we've got to
remove our hexagon so I generally start from the center and then I just bring
that hexagon out and then I can just slide the rest of it out as I'm going
and just being gentle just in case you've actually gone through the card
you don't want to pull out your stitching so there we go that's one out
and then I just continue doing that all the way around
just being nice and gentle I'm just using my embroidery scissors to pull the
hexagon out and I just get underneath there you can see that just lift it up
and now I can get that out there we go
pop that out too and I just continue doing that all the way around
okay so I've pulled out all the hexagons out of the back and I've just given that
a quick press and now what I'm going to do is I'm going to place that onto my
little background square here and what I do at this point is I just get some of
my basting glue which is Roxanne's basting glue and all I do is I just put
a couple of drops on the back on the seam allowance so just here here here
they're just where all the same where the seams meet where the two hexagons
meet and then I just put a little bit on just a dot that's all you really need
just along the seam allowance and what this does it'll hold it in place for me
so I can sew it down okay
so I just place that on now this seam here I like to line up with that crease
mark there so we just press that into place and then I grab my iron and my
ironing code and I just place that on there and then I just give it a quick
press and what that does is dries the glue and now I know that that can be
sewn on there okay so I can pick that up and you can see there that it's not
falling off so if I was going to be doing a whole quilt and I wasn't ready
to sew all these on to the individual squares I would use the basting glue and
then I would move on to my next square but for now what I'm going to do is
we're just going to turn this into a little mug rug it's just to show you the
technique so I'm going to grab my piece of fusible fleece or wanting whatever
you've got on hand I'm going to put that onto the back and then we're going to
hand sew it okay so we've stuck that on with the
basting glue and we've got our fusible fleece on the back and that's just
giving us a little bit of stability in being able to stitch it by hand now now
if you as I said if you were just ready to move on to another block you can just
continue on that's entirely up to you but now what we're going to do is we're
going to hand stitch this little flower into place
so grab your needle and thread that and we're just going to continue using the
60 weight I have been known to use a finer thread again it just depends on
the the project but basically you just want to tie a little knot in the in the
end a little quilters not and all I'm going to do is I'm going to come up on
that first corner
so I'm going to come up just underneath on that first corner and you can see
that I'm just going to take a tiny little bite of that corner and all I'm
going to do and hopefully you can see this on camera is I've just come out of
the edge of the hexagon and I'm just going to take a little bite of the
bottom fabric and in the corner of that hexagon now for a clearer picture of
this and this is what I do for my binding I'm stitch I will link up down
below at mybinding video for a picture of this and I'm just going
to go and do that all the way around until it's all attached so see there
I've come out in the hexagon that's a little bit too far I just want to come
out on the crease of that side of the hexagon so see there I've just done that
stitch you can see how you can see it and we don't want that you don't want to
be able to see that stitch so what I'm going to do is I'm going to unthread my
needle and I'm going to pull that out
which is nice and easy to just unthread that and then I will take a smaller bite
in the edge right here in the edge of my hexagon so I'm just coming up and I'm
just going to come out of the edge of my hexagon just right there you can see
that a little bit clearer and I know that I won't be able to see that you can
see there that it's just completely and utterly disappeared and I know that I'm
good to go and I'm using a cream thread on a dark blue so you want to be extra
careful and where I've come out I'm just going to go underneath there and then
come out about an eighth of an inch away from that and you can see that it just
disappears so I'm going to do that all the way around and our little mug rug
will be ready for quilting okay so it's all sewn on
now we can start quilting it so you can see there that you can't see the
stitches or anything like that I'll get it up nice and close for you so you can
have a look so you can see there that you can barely see those stitches so it
looks like a like an invisible stitch okay so now what we're going to do is
we're going to quilt it so to make it nice and easy I'm just going to go a
quarter inch all the way around the hexagon and I've already got my fusible
fleece on there so I'm just putting my backing on now because I didn't actually
stitch with the backing on cuz I didn't want to have those little stitches going
through - through the back and now all I'm going to do is just pin the back
into it just put a few stick little pins in there making sure that all my layers
are going together and that all my raw edges are aligning okay so as I said I'm
ready to start stitching so I'm actually going to probably use a contrasting
thread along here so I might use a red thread I think will be the best one you
can use whatever color you like um as I said this is a great scrap busting
little block to do and if you've done a whole series of these blocks and then
put them all together you could do it as quilt as you go or you could just wait
and sew them all together with a sash and there we go our little mug rug has
got its binding on and it's all finished and it's now ready to be used well thank
you very much for joining me today I really do hope that you enjoyed making
this little mug rug and learning about English paper piecing don't forget to
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my name is Nicole Reed for Darvanalee Designs Studio and I'll see you all again
next time bye for now
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