Pat,
I have found and ordered a nearly new copy of "Mariners Compass, An American Quilt Classic", by her today. I believe it is her first book on the subject and was highly rated as to content. I should get it within a couple of weeks as it is coming from a used book seller in California. Thanks for the heads up. I will let you know when I get it.
John
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:14:22 -0600, Marie Dodge wrote (in article ):
I've actually done a little of both. And used commercial patterns or patterns from the Internet. Or Blockbase or..
Well, you get the picture.
Maureen
Until I started reading and posting here, it never occured to me that you _could_ buy a ready made template for quilts. I had seen templates and stuff in magazines and all, but the thought of using them without so much as sizing them had never even crossed my mind. I still make use of my ruler, protractor, compass, and graph paper, and then sort out what seems the best way to put it all together myself, about 99.9 percent of the time.
NightMist
Trust me........ draft your own ;) I looked and looked and looked and I couldn't find any pre made pattern that I would have been happy with, but that might be just me. I sat down one day and tape 4 peices of bristol board together, got a pencil, and eraser and a BIG ruler and started drawing! One of the things I really wanted to do was have the points different lengths, I think 99% of the compasses I saw had the points ending all in the same radius and that bugged me! LOL
If you don't mind me sharing,,,,, here are some photos of mine
YOU CAN DO IT!
I highly reccommend paper peicing though!!!! LOL
You are very welcome, John. I am eager to see what you make. PAT
John
Me too, sometimes I cut out individual "blocks" on graph paper with scissors and rearrange them. Or I cut different borders and try them out on the centre. I've got coloured pencils and a geometry set in my sewing box which my kids are not allowed to touch!
Don't know which method she used, Pat. But it's gorgeous! Roberta in D
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I'm not familiar with the term "geometry set." I'll bet I know what it is by a different name. What is it? It sounds like the sort of thing I'd love.
--Lia
Yes, I have this never book, and I now use this method of "foundation" piecing all the time. Much better than having to remove paper afterwards!
The book is here (or anywhere else you find it!)
Hanne in London
Patti wrote:
It's a tin box with a compass, set square, ruler, protractor etc. You use them in maths lessons in school, or for drafting quilts! Here's a picture of one:
Ah! Thanks. I have everything in the set, just didn't know what it was called.
Come to think of it, I don't have triangular rulers that look quite like those. I have other rulers.
For drafting quilts, I'd add quarter inch graph paper to the set. I've also worked with 60 degree graph paper
--Lia
Thanks for the info. Hanne . In message , Hanne Gottliebsen writes
If it was something paper pieced then I would draw it with Electric quilt so I could print out multiples easily. And if it was regular piecing then I would just calculate how to do it with rotary cutting.
Allison (an EQ fan)
Julia mentioned 60 degree graph paper. Everybody knows about this site, I assume, for all kinds of interesting print-your-own graph paper?
http://www.>>
How so you print something from a PDF? I don't understand.
What is "Electric Quilt?" Forgive my ignorance I've been out of quilting for over 10 years.
I learned from the Bonesteel book. I think that was the name of it. But I was soon designing my own quilts. I would still use the ones from books and magazines though if I saw something I liked.
I'm a dummy with computers, but here's what I did- I clicked on the hexagons, then download, then open, then Adobe Reader, then open, then CTRL-P to print. It worked fine other than it printed in blue and I can hardly see the lines. ;-) That's all I can help you with.... sorry.
Leslie, Missy & The Furbabies in MO.
There should be a scale somewhere that you can alter, Leslie, which lets you change the 'width' of the lines: the greater the width, the darker the lines appear. That is pretty much the extent of my experimentation with graph paper, and it wasn't that program, so I may be completely wrong >g< . In message , Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes
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