Jude Edling CONGRATULATIONS! You are the Winner of the Bumble 15 Fat Quarter Bundle-Tula Pink for Free Spirit Fabrics. Please message me with your mailing address and we will get them out to you right away! For those that did not win this round, be sure to enter for our Monthly Quilter's Tool Giveaway! You could win the Hex N More Ruler this month! Look for the post on our Facebook page or enter on our blog by simply leaving a comment! Watch for our next Giveaway, always something fun! BIG Thanks to our friends at Fat Quarter Shop for making this Giveaway possible! Please be sure to visit their site at FatQuarterShop.com Always amazing and SEW MUCH MORE THAN FABRIC!
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To celebrate 1000 Likes on our Facebook page we will be giving away a Bumble Fat Quarter Bundle by Tula Pink for Free Spirit Fabrics! This is made possible by the great folks at FatQuarterShop.com! You can go to their website and check out the entire line, it's AWESOME! Yes, I am in love!!!
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The WINNER of the Hex N More Ruler!
First of all, Congratulations to Charlene Tudor who won our EZ Dresden Ruler Giveaway for last month! She has a brand new baby niece to sew for and I know she'll be creating something fun!
On to this months Monthly Quilt Tool Giveaway! The Hex N More ruler by Jaybird Quilts! Oh the possibilities this holds. Just look at what you can do with it...4 shapes in 4 sizes with one ruler! Hexagons, Triangles, Half Hexagons and Jewels. You know you want one!!!
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TIP: scroll to the first of the month posts, we always post this giveaway around the first of the month.
That's all. Nothing to purchase ever.
Each Hex N More comes with complete detailed instructions showing you how to cut the different shapes and sizes, it even tells you how many you will get from your strip of fabric!
If you get impatient and you think you need one right away, our good friends at Fat Quarter Shop have them in stock and you can purchase one today!
Tutorials for the Hex N More Ruler are on website at Jaybird Quilts.
Inspiration - by Karen Meyer - Sister Of The Divide Quilt created using the One Block Wonder Stack Method, all hexagons created from one fabric. Kaffe Fassett Cloisonne Black.
Three of the One Block Wonder books written by Maxine Rosenthal, I highly recommend these if you are interested in this method of quilting. Once you learn her secrets you will be off and running! Easy technique and she breaks it all down for you.
Inspiration: Years ago, this quilt, "Candied Hexagons" by Kerry Dear was featured in Issue #18 of Australian Quilter's Companion Magazine.
Inklingo has a great little video, about 5 minutes long that has some great hexi inspiration and lots of quick tricks using their product.
Earlier today I posted a beautiful scrappy quiltdesigned and made by Squares and Triangles. Below is the photo of that quilt.
She created this quilt using the EZ Dresden Ruler and a paper piecing method. I will demonstrate a method different from hers to create your own scrappy quilt! You will of course need The EZ Dresden Ruler shown below.
I am using two Over the Rainbow Batik Charm Packs by Moda from the fabulous FatQuarterShop.com
I have made some little video clips to demonstrate how to do this. Sophie, our kitty, decided she needed to get in the picture so there is a bit of a break between one and two, but I think you will pick it right up.
If you are making a scrappy quilt, gather up your bits and cut yourself some 5" squares. Light in one pile and medium and darks in another. You will need four of your light 5 inch charms and four of your medium or dark 5 inch charms. This will make 2 blocks that will measure 8.5" when complete and will finish in your quilt top at 8".
TIPS:
1. Draw a line with a permanent marker down the center of your ruler, this will help line things up perfectly.
2. To keep it from sliding around, I use paper crafting adhesive micro dots on the bottom of my ruler . It's very important to line your ruler up properly and not allow it to slip as you cut your fabric. There are lots of adhesive micro dots out there, you probably have some in your crafting supplies. I like the micro dots because they are not overly sticky and yet they do the trick. You can see a sample of the dot size on this photo below. You may have another solution that works for you and that is fine. The goal is to make sure your ruler does not slip.
3. Do not stack and cut more than 4 charms at a time. You will lose your accuracy if things are forced or are sliding around. Be sure if you are cutting 4 pieces that you take the time to line them up carefully. A little attention to detail makes for easy piecing later.
To square up your blocks you will lay your block as shown below, line your ruler up with the outside squares and trim off the excess with your rotary cutter as shown. Each block should square up to 4.5". Tips for lining up your block: Line your ruler on the outside edge of the pinked edge of the charm square. (when you purchase charm squares they often come with a pinked edge which confuses people...cut to the outside edge and when you stitch, use that pinked edge as the point you measure from to get your 1/4" seam allowance.) Position your block as shown below and line your diagonal line on your ruler up with the upper right and lower left corners, then trim. Turn your block completely around so that the large end of your wedge piece is now in the upper left. Again, line up your square on the diagonal, check to make sure that you have 4.5" showing on your ruler on both the upper left and lower right corner, then trim away the excess. Take your time with this process. Getting a nice squared up block will help you piece things together accurately as you go along. Chain piece all your blocks at one time, one side, then press that seam open and proceed to chain piece all your blocks on the other side, again press them all open at the same time. Then, take your blocks, get comfortable, turn on the tv, some music or a quilting video from Youtube and get all your blocks trimmed. Then you will be ready to stitch them together without interruption. Quick as a wink you will have your quilt top finished!
There is very little waste with these blocks, you can see the tiny bit of trimmings below.
Now sew the top two blocks together and the bottom two blocks together and then press them with the seam going in opposite directions. Now stitch your top two blocks to the bottom two blocks and press your seam open. Should look like below.
I am playing on the design wall with some blocks today...Love the Fall Harvest feel of these fabrics.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! We are giving away the EZ Dresden Ruler this month as our Monthly Quilt Tool giveaway. Just leave a comment below or on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/sisterofthedivide to be entered into the drawing. There is nothing to purchase.
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