New English Paper Piecing

“I have been eagerly awaiting this book since I heard about it pre-release last fall. Sue Daley has many, many clever and creative patterns that use English paper piecing in innovative ways. In this book, she introduces unusual shapes to paper piece, including pointed thimbles, curved octagons and hexagon petals. She also advocates glue basting, a method not often mentioned in English paper piecing books. The projects in the book are lovely and intricate, focusing around primarily muted and traditional color schemes. Two things would have made this book even better. First, I would have liked to see applique instructions specific to paper pieced shapes. Even though the projects use paper piecing appliqued onto backgrounds, the technique section describing applique is a bit generic, using a heart as an illustration instead of a paper pieced shape. Second, I did not have immediate access to paper packs for these unusual shapes, so it would have been great if the book included template pages with full pages of each shape. Then you could just copy and cut, instead of having to trace as many shapes as you need onto paper before cutting them all out. Overall, the book has a good range of projects, from fairly small and simple to full-sized quilts. I would recommend this book to experienced quilters looking for a new set of techniques to challenge their skills.”–Emily Breclaw “Customer”“New English Paper Piecing by Sue Daley is a book for all the english paper piecers that don’t have time to make more than one of the quilts, made with this method to make hexagon quilts and other quilts that are sewn by individual piece by hand. Daley speeds things up by using acrylic templates with rotary cutting and glue to baste the pieces onto the paper or cardboard. She also uses these small pieces as appliques onto another quilt. New English Paper Piecing isn’t just about making hexagon quilts. This book contains 10 projects, some with blocks that form melon shapes, flower shapes and blocks, elongated hexagons, and more. These shapes are embellished with delicate fabric butterflies, and hand embroidery. Daley’s book is a good book for beginning english paper piecers, and for all of us with time limits.”–Judy Bowers “Customer”I give Sue Daley praises for not only creating beautiful quilts but for her teaching. Sue walks you through each and every step process in successfully creating beautiful English Paper Piecing (EPP) projects. She even goes the extra mile in teaching needle turn applique to enhance your EPP projects and she also teaches how to embroider as well. This book is also full of tips of what to do and not to do when it comes to EPP and hand stitching. If you are looking for a book that will teach English paper piecing and then some this is the book for you!–Jennifer OverstreetUE DALEY IS COMING SOON! Sue Daley Trunk Show & Dessert Thursday, October 20 7 to 9 PM “American Legion Hall, Jesup, Iowa We are so excited…it’s only a month away! Our Sue Daley weekend is sure to be full of laughs, stitching, learning, and most of all..FUN! If you haven’t signed up yet for the trunk show – please do! Sue will have all of her gorgeous quilts with her as she is on her way to International Quilt Market. This is a once in a lifetime chance to see some beautiful hand English Paper Piecing and needle turn applique up close. Give us a call to reserve your spot!”– “Merrysstichins.com”

Sue Daley was born and raised in the southern suburbs of Sydney, Australia. She worked for many years as a detail draftsperson, but her love of fabric and design was so great that eventually it took over her life.

Sue now lives on the beautiful Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. When she is not travelling the world sharing her love of patchwork, Sue spends her time designing new patterns and writing books for the patchwork industry.