Helpful Score: 3
From the Introduction:
"After making quilts for 25 years , I look back and am amazed at how much quilting techniques have changed. Women have always been interested in experimenting with quilting and many wonderful designs and developments have come about as a result.
When I first began quilting, I made templates, marked around them on single layers of fabric, and hand pieced the seams. When I finally owned a sewing machine, I worked with techniques that would allow me to make different templates, mark around them and cut multiple layers of fabric at one time, and sew the seams on the sewing machine.
Despite the success with these techniques, I was always frustrated at these slow and often inaccurate methods. The minute you start marking around a template, the line varies from the actual desired shape.
When the roatry cutter came out, it was an immediate success. People who were using the strip piecing techniques, such as Seminole and strip garments, went crazy. At last, the measurements you desired could be cut with no marking at all. Many quilt makers were dreaming up faster and faster methods of achieving quilts with little hassle. Template free sewing is everywhere. The rotary cutter took us well beyond the strips. Many other shapes are possible and we shall explore them.
The intention of this book is not bring you techniques that are altogether new, but to organize known techniques into a format that will help you think differently about sewing quilts. The first section of this book will give you the basic skills needed for piecing quilts. The second section will give you eight quilt patterns that use these techniqes. Cutting guides and directions are provided to make nineteen various sized quilts. These quilts are not only fast, but above all they are accurate.
I have always been interested in the math of quiltmaking, therefore, I will attempt to explain the math involved in planning and executing these quilts. Don't worry, there are only four formulas that you will be using. Understanding these formulas will enable you to plan your own quilts.
'Accuracy counts' is a saying in many fields. It is just as true in quiltmaking. No one likes to apologize for a pieced quilt that is filled with intersections that do not meet, points of triangles that are cut off, and quilts that will not lie flat. The techniques covered in this book will help guide you to mathematically correct and well sewn quilts of which you can be proud.
For those of you who prefer hand piecing, these cutting techniques will work for you as well, Independent pieces can be cut without marking around templates. With accurately cut shapes, all you need to do is draw a seam line inside the cut lines and proceed with your hand piecing. Cutting multiple layers accurately will save you much time."
"After making quilts for 25 years , I look back and am amazed at how much quilting techniques have changed. Women have always been interested in experimenting with quilting and many wonderful designs and developments have come about as a result.
When I first began quilting, I made templates, marked around them on single layers of fabric, and hand pieced the seams. When I finally owned a sewing machine, I worked with techniques that would allow me to make different templates, mark around them and cut multiple layers of fabric at one time, and sew the seams on the sewing machine.
Despite the success with these techniques, I was always frustrated at these slow and often inaccurate methods. The minute you start marking around a template, the line varies from the actual desired shape.
When the roatry cutter came out, it was an immediate success. People who were using the strip piecing techniques, such as Seminole and strip garments, went crazy. At last, the measurements you desired could be cut with no marking at all. Many quilt makers were dreaming up faster and faster methods of achieving quilts with little hassle. Template free sewing is everywhere. The rotary cutter took us well beyond the strips. Many other shapes are possible and we shall explore them.
The intention of this book is not bring you techniques that are altogether new, but to organize known techniques into a format that will help you think differently about sewing quilts. The first section of this book will give you the basic skills needed for piecing quilts. The second section will give you eight quilt patterns that use these techniqes. Cutting guides and directions are provided to make nineteen various sized quilts. These quilts are not only fast, but above all they are accurate.
I have always been interested in the math of quiltmaking, therefore, I will attempt to explain the math involved in planning and executing these quilts. Don't worry, there are only four formulas that you will be using. Understanding these formulas will enable you to plan your own quilts.
'Accuracy counts' is a saying in many fields. It is just as true in quiltmaking. No one likes to apologize for a pieced quilt that is filled with intersections that do not meet, points of triangles that are cut off, and quilts that will not lie flat. The techniques covered in this book will help guide you to mathematically correct and well sewn quilts of which you can be proud.
For those of you who prefer hand piecing, these cutting techniques will work for you as well, Independent pieces can be cut without marking around templates. With accurately cut shapes, all you need to do is draw a seam line inside the cut lines and proceed with your hand piecing. Cutting multiple layers accurately will save you much time."
Helpful Score: 1
Using a straight edge and rotary cutter no need for templates or pinning to make a quilt. Book has 8 quilt patterns, 19 plans for quilts and tips on machine quilting.
