Acrylic templates, pre-cut papers, glue basting, and fussy cutting are all staples of the modern English Paper Piecer’s sewing compendium. It’s fair to say we take all of these modern tools and notions for granted, yet as we discovered in part one of this series (The History of English Paper Piecing) quilters have been using this technique for many centuries and using far more rudimentary materials and simplistic techniques. We really are so lucky to have all of these tools at our disposal; it’s created a fresh wave of creativity and boundary pushing, often far away from the ubiquitous hexagon that we typically associate with EPP.
