To be clear, this isn't a photo process on how to do English Paper Piecing. This is a photographic documentation for how I have been working my 4-day cycles on this.
Prep
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The Body |
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The Working Piece |
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Upcoming Days' Work |
Day 1
Sew 9 coffins.
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The first bundle on the stack - the note indicates which way the upper-left-most coffin is to face. |
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Tacked around their papers. |
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Stitched together. The center coffin paper has been removed for reuse. |
Day 2
Stitch 9 coffins, stitch them to Day 1
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Day 2 has a "Down" note because I'm going across this cycle and the upper-left coffin will fit "between" the green and coffee bean fabrics on the right of Day 1. It will have to go upside down. |
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Day 2 assembled. |
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Day 2 and Day 1 stitched together. Center papers have been taken out. |
Day 3
Stitch 9 coffins.
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Easy day. Stitch 9 coffins. |
Day 4
Stitch 9 coffins, stitch them to Day 3, stitch Days 1-2 and 3-4 together, stitch days 1-4 to the Working Piece, stitch the Working Piece to the Body, plan the next 4 days.
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Daily 9 coffins next to Day 3 |
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Days 1-2 next to days 3-4 |
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Days 1-4 stitched together with center papers removed, under the Working Piece. |
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The Working Piece under the Body |
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Working Piece and Body joined. It doubled in size! |
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Planning the next 4 days. I'm going down in a column this time, so all of them will be "Up." No fabric chosen could be in the right-most 3 columns. I introduced 3 new prints to this cycle. |
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Stacked and bundled for the next cycle. |