Zig-Zags & Fans: Easy Paper Piecing

Sue Beevers

Creative Adventurer, Motif Master, Color Sorcerer

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Experienced Beginner to Advanced

88 Minutes

Piece It, Flip It, Love It!

Sue Beevers is a lifelong creative adventurer with an eye for reimagining traditional techniques. In this course, you'll enhance your paper piecing skills using two distinctive quilt blocks—the Fan block and the Zig-Zag block. Sue guides you in combining these blocks to design versatile, eye-catching quilt patterns.

You'll learn Sue’s practical method for precise fabric placement, simplifying the paper piecing process. She’ll demonstrate an effective sewing technique for effortless paper removal. Explore how rotating and flipping your blocks can yield more than twelve unique quilt patterns. Additionally, you'll discover how strategic color choices dramatically change your quilt's visual impact. By the course’s end, you'll confidently create your own customized table set, including placemats, a table runner, a center mat, or a stylish wall hanging.

What you will learn

Clear Paper Piecing Overview – Understand simple techniques for placing fabric and assembling blocks.
Accurate Fabric Placement – Learn a practical approach to accurately placing fabric pieces.
Foolproof Paper Removal – Use stitch length to remove paper quickly and easily.
Hybrid Block Magic – Combine a Fan and Zig-Zag block to create a unique design with endless possibilities.
Rotate, Mirror & Transform –Rotate and flip blocks to make over 12 different patterns.
Color Placement Mastery – Experiment with fabric colors to dramatically change the look of your quilt blocks.
Make a Custom Tableset – Create placemats, a runner, a centermat, or a wall hanging with your newly mastered paper piecing skills.
Includes access to course videos, downloads, the Creative Spark private community, and discussion with your instructor. Your course content does not expire.