Modern Building Blocks

Several months ago I bought a quilt kit that I was thoroughly taken with.  I am anxious to get this going again.  I got it started back in June, but had to put it away for several months to get beyond our move.  Not that this quilt is too difficult, but rather that it has many smaller blocks that will take lots of time.  The kit is a Moda kit using Bella Solids.  There are 48 blocks, starting with 2 - 36" blocks... I am down to the last group of 30 - 6" blocks.  This picture is the cover of the box that the fabric came in.  The instructions are minimal with a little picture of each block and the size of the pieces you have to cut.  Some of the pieces in the 6" blocks are quite small.

I made it through the first two 6ers and was sighing alot, and my husband makes the comment, you should do them using your paper piecing technique. This is block two of the 6's before I started stitching it.  Those little triangles like to shift as I am stitching, and I probably take almost as many seams out as I put in.  When it comes time to square them up to assemble the final quilt, I will only have two of these smaller blocks to worry about.  I dug out my old laptop that had EQ6 on it.  For those who don't know what EQ6 is... Electric Quilt 6.  The program has many blocks in its library and all you have to do is find your block, open it, and you can print it as a Paper Piecing design.  I have not found all my blocks yet in the library, but I am hopeful that they are all hiding in there somewhere.  So the last 28 blocks I will be using paper.  Paper piecing just makes little pieces so much easier to deal with, and points are right on.

Grand Daughter came yesterday to quilt a baby quilt.  She did an awesome job.  She used Minky on the back and I showed her how to turn the back to the front for the binding.

Quarter Trim Paper Piecing

How's that for a name?  I have been doing paper piecing for a while and I don't think I use all of any one technique.  I've put together a tutorial for my version of paper piecing and I thought I should give it a name.
These are the tools that I use for my paper piecing. 

A couple things I forgot to include in my tutorial is the settings on my sewing machine and the paper I use.
My machine defaults to 2.5 when I turn it on.  When I am doing paper piecing, I turn that down to 1.6.  At 1.6 my paper tears away easier and is still possible to rip it out with a seam ripper if I should make a mistake... no one makes any mistakes... Right!!! 
There are all kinds of paper out there for this purpose, but I use the common 20# paper that is used in most printers.  Once I am ready to rip the paper off the fabric, I fold on the stitch line and carefully pull to start the rip... most the time it rips off fairly easy.  Occasionally I might need to use a pin or tweezers to get out some little scraps of paper, but that is not the norm.  I recently found that I could print on paper from a doodle pad.  That is newsprint weight paper that is in a pad for kids to draw on.  It has to be trimmed to fit in the printer, but it does go through my printer fine.  I printed on this paper for a friend who wanted a lighter weight paper.  The doodle pad had 60 sheets and it cost $1.84... so it was pretty cheap.
Oh yes, I have to give you a link to the tutorial... Quarter Trim Paper Piecing
There is one other note I should make regarding how big to cut your fabric pieces.  You will typically have a little more waste with paper piecing because you want to have a little more than the 1/4" seam allowance on all sides of the piece, and making it even bigger is not an issue.  The area that I have the biggest issue with is triangles or angled cuts... sometimes when you flip the triangle over into place after you have sewn it down, it doesn't fit the way you thought... so it is worth double checking before you stitch triangle pieces down if you don't want to use your seam ripper.