Brimfield Block from Brimfield Awakening - English Paper Piecing

Note from Brimfield Awakening: "Brimfield Block EPP by Brimfield Awakening is the original English Paper Piecing block designed by the girls from Brimfield Awakening. While up at the Brimfield Antiques Show in Brimfield Massachusetts, Kim and Nisha happened upon a dealer with a Hefty trash bag full of stinky old textiles. Among those textiles were two orphaned quilt blocks from long ago that they couldn’t get out of their head! They went on to redesign the blocks for EPP and the rest is history.

The Brimfield Block EPP by Brimfield Awakening finishes at 14″. English Paper Piecing uses paper templates to temporarily hold more complicated shapes while the quilter hand stitches them together. The papers are then popped out before the EPP is appliquéd down to a background square and reused in a new project.

The Brimfield Block papers are uniquely perforated. This means the quilter can further break down the shapes into additional shapes by tearing along the paper perforation. This gives the EPP quilter much flexibility to have truly original and unique blocks for their quilt.

The Brimfield Block has a large negative space within the block. This is the perfect place to showcase larger scale fabrics. Also beautifully interesting is the negative space that develops between the blocks when pieced together. Do you see the cross pattern that results? It is a long arm quilters dream to quilt either edge-to-edge or custom quilted.

Don’t forget that you can use window acrylic templates on your Brimfield Awakening projects to audition fabrics for fussy cutting and to make quick work of tracing out your fabric shapes with seam allowance."