Laundry Basket Quilts Triangle Exchange Paper... ?
03-23-2012, 12:55 AM
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Using paper is wasteful and time consuming. Tearing it off is a pain and you need to shorten your stitch or it rips out the seam.
Since I found Quilt In A Days TRIANGLE square up ruler I can turn them out very quickly and they are always perfect.
Eleanor Burns is a genuis at finding the best and easiest ways to do quilting.
All my quilting buddies have switched once they saw how it worked.
Check out the ruler and her method at:
http://quiltinaday.com
Since I found Quilt In A Days TRIANGLE square up ruler I can turn them out very quickly and they are always perfect.
Eleanor Burns is a genuis at finding the best and easiest ways to do quilting.
All my quilting buddies have switched once they saw how it worked.
Check out the ruler and her method at:
http://quiltinaday.com
03-23-2012, 01:06 AM
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I just got them and I'm using them for my next quilt, which needs 8200 HST blocks. I usually use Triangulations, but the most 2" finished blocks that I can get per sheet is 12 with Triangulations, where the strips of LBQ HST papers give you 28 blocks - more than twice as many means less time making 2" blocks.
These papers aren't any different than other HST foundation papers except that they don't have the little cut lines to remove the bunny ears before you press the squares open. They work just fine.
There are places on the web where you can print out different sizes on your own paper to get a feel for whether or not you like dealing with paper foundations. Some people don't like them, some do - I'm addicted to them, I'm afraid. I have grown fond of having most of my points intact and not floating.
Try this site if you want to give it a whirl: http://www.quiltingandwhatnot.ca/Hal...-Triangle.html
The advantage to Triangulations is that you have patterns for a TON of sizes in 1/16" increments, plus flying geese.
The advantage to LBQ papers is that you can do so many more at one time.
These papers aren't any different than other HST foundation papers except that they don't have the little cut lines to remove the bunny ears before you press the squares open. They work just fine.
There are places on the web where you can print out different sizes on your own paper to get a feel for whether or not you like dealing with paper foundations. Some people don't like them, some do - I'm addicted to them, I'm afraid. I have grown fond of having most of my points intact and not floating.
Try this site if you want to give it a whirl: http://www.quiltingandwhatnot.ca/Hal...-Triangle.html
The advantage to Triangulations is that you have patterns for a TON of sizes in 1/16" increments, plus flying geese.
The advantage to LBQ papers is that you can do so many more at one time.
And BTW... are we gonna get to see your quilt of a zillion HSTs? LOL! I hope so!
07-14-2012, 03:46 PM
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I bought a roll of the 5" size. They are easy to sew at a sew day when I like to do mindless sewing while I visit with my sewing friends. It doesn't take long to have enough sewn to make a pieced border for a quilt. I pin two fabrics to a length and have them ready to pick up and sew.
07-15-2012, 02:40 AM
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07-15-2012, 02:41 AM
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I bought a roll of the 5" size. They are easy to sew at a sew day when I like to do mindless sewing while I visit with my sewing friends. It doesn't take long to have enough sewn to make a pieced border for a quilt. I pin two fabrics to a length and have them ready to pick up and sew.
07-15-2012, 03:10 AM
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I hated using Thangles which are paper hst strips so I doubt that I'd personally like doing a full sheet of them.
Why not do the 8 at a time hst's? The extra bonus to doing this method is that the bias is on the sewn edges so you have nice, straight of grains left over to work with
http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...s-t141047.html
I swear by this method and have made oodles of them already.
Why not do the 8 at a time hst's? The extra bonus to doing this method is that the bias is on the sewn edges so you have nice, straight of grains left over to work with
http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...s-t141047.html
I swear by this method and have made oodles of them already.
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