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We are building up our own fantastic collection of free foundation pieced blocks and and quilting projects which use foundation paper. We have also listed a great range of places where you can find other free foundation paper piecing patterns below.
If you are new to foundation piecing we have a free tutorial with a beginner's block here to help you before you start tackling more complex foundation pieced patterns.
Unicorn Harts have several free foundation paper piecing (FPP) patterns in their shop, as well as paid ones. Many of them are cute animals. I recently made the penguin block and turned it into a cushion (shown above).
Yes! We have our very own Rainbow Mountain tub pattern which is free with any purchase of our Foundation Paper, and only a small fee for the digital pattern on its own ;-)
Quiet Play are well known for their rainbow geometric foundation pieced patterns. But you can also find some brilliant free Star Wars patterns in their Payhip store too, these are next on my to make list!
The chances are if you use Instagram you've probably seen Lillyella's popular undercover maker mat, which is a brilliant free pattern. That project incorporates a paper pieced butterfly block. But on her blog you'll also find the butterfly charm blocks shown above, foundation pieced humming birds and other free foundation pieced patterns too. Pop over to https://lillyella.com/tutorials/ to browse and download them.
It's easy to think that foundation piecing is only using for pictorial quilt blocks as there are so many of them out there. But it's also a great technique for making stunning, often complex, non pictorial quilt blocks that would be very tricky to make without foundation piecing. Wombat Quilts have a stunning selection of free FPP quilt blocks on their site.
Quilting author Kerry Green, who wrote our introduction to foundation paper piecing, and tested our foundation paper for us in the design stages, has some foundation pieced patterns free on her blog. We especially love these mini house blocks which would look great on a mini quilt, a pouch or a pincushion.
Pitcher's Boutique have a great selection of licensed paper pieced designers including Harry Potter, Star Wars and Disney patterns. They show in her shop as costing 1 cent, but use the code FREE2019 at the checkout to get the price down to zero.
This lone star foundation pieced quilt block from Six White Horses is the ultimate scrap busting block. All those tiny off cuts you considered throwing a way would be ideal for this pattern. Browse their sidebar to find other FPP tutorials too.
There's lots of gorgeous foundation pieced quilt blocks available for free on the Sewing Under Rainbow blog. Although the author is Polish she has kindly provided English versions of all the patterns too. We especially loved the woodpecker shown above, but the mermaid block is pretty epic too.
Fandom in Stitches have hundreds of free foundation pieced patterns for TV, movie and video game characters including Disney characters, Harry Potter, Minecraft, Superheroes, Star Wars, X-Files, Dr Who and many, many more. Browse them all at http://www.fandominstitches.com/
Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine
We love this set of free weather themed foundation pieced quilt block patterns from Love Patchwork & Quilting Magazine. There are lots of other free foundation pieced patterns on their site too including this adorable sausage dog!
Leila Gardunia has a full year long scrappy triangle foundation pieced pattern available with 52 different blocks. That's enough to really help you get to grips with foundation piecing and to burn through your scraps. Download the full pattern here.