I'm done cutting for my Mom's One Block Wonder quilt! Here are the stacks of 60 deg. triangles--enough to make 224 hexagon blocks--a total of 1344 triangles!
I have a tip I stumbled on while I was cutting. I was working on the kitchen table, and the breeze from the windows kept flipping the edges of the fabric, so I brought out my trusty paperweights to hold down the fabric ends. Since I was cutting through 6 layers of fabric, I was pressing down on the rotary cutter rather firmly and was having some problems with the ruler slipping off the cut edge ahead of where I was holding the ruler. I found that putting a paperweight on the ruler up ahead of where I was holding the ruler stopped that little slippage from happening, and my cut was true from start to finish!
I'm done cutting for my Mom's One Block Wonder quilt! Here are the stacks of 60 deg. triangles--enough to make 224 hexagon blocks--a total of 1344 triangles!
I have a tip I stumbled on while I was cutting. I was working on the kitchen table, and the breeze from the windows kept flipping the edges of the fabric, so I brought out my trusty paperweights to hold down the fabric ends. Since I was cutting through 6 layers of fabric, I was pressing down on the rotary cutter rather firmly and was having some problems with the ruler slipping off the cut edge ahead of where I was holding the ruler. I found that putting a paperweight on the ruler up ahead of where I was holding the ruler stopped that little slippage from happening, and my cut was true from start to finish!
4 comments:
What a great tip. I'll have to borrow some of dad's to try.
Love and hugs gina xxx
OMG that's a lot of triangles! I'm thinking you must have a LOT of patience... and that's before you even start sewing them together! I'd be years finishing that project... But I can't wait to see it all put together.
Love the tip! I had never thought of that!! That is a PILE of triangles!!! I think I may just have to try one of those quilts!
Kristie
Great tip - I was actually contemplating making some "bean bags" to hold mine down since I don't have pretty fancy paperweights like you do.
What lovely fabric!
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