Foundation Paper Piecing is a quilting technique where you sew fabric pieces directly onto a printed paper template or foundation paper. It eliminates the struggle of matching complex seams, awkward angles, or tiny pieces. Because you are sewing directly on the printed lines, your points will always be sharp and perfectly aligned. Once you have mastered the basics with this simple star (you will be making 3 blocks for a table runner) you can move on to creating highly detailed, complex pictorial blocks (like animals, flowers, or geometric shapes) that would be nearly impossible to achieve using traditional cutting and piecing.