Foundation Paper Piecing tutorial

Foundation Paper Piecing designs are made from several smaller pieces, sewn one on top of the next to gradually build a bigger design.

Those smaller pieces are labelled with numbers, which you sew together in numerical order.

When you are sewing, you will use an FPP template. You’ll use this template as your guide and sew along the printed lines – the template will face you right side up and the fabric that you will sew onto it will be right side down, with its wrong side against the back of the template. The finished sewn block will be a reverse image of the template.

• Download your free heart FPP template

In this tutorial, we’re going to use this simple Heart block as an example. Give it a go to try out the basic technique but the steps will be the same for any FPP template.

Alice Hadley

Alice is the former Editor of Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine and is obsessed with all things quilt-related. She’s worked with a whole host of the world’s leading quilt designers. You can often find her flicking through the very latest fabric collections or testing out exciting new notions. She’s also the office EPP queen, stitching her way (slowly!) to gorgeous quilts with impeccably embroidered details. Unusually for a quilter, Alice operates a no-scraps-allowed policy at home and curates a very modest fabric stash.

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