plainpat

There seems to be a lot of confusion about what a 60 degree ruler is/or is used for.
When I got mine,a clerk wanted to sell me a diamond shape,saying it was what I needed.

Would like to see quilts made with a 60 degree ruler.

auntpiggylpn

The 60 degree rulers I have seen are triangles, not diamonds but I'm sure I haven't seen every ruler that is made! OBW or one block wonders are made with this ruler. Do a search above and type in OBW and you will get many, many results

I typed in the search feature and this is a list of what I got:

http://www.quiltingboard.com/search.jsp?q=obw&u=

QuiltE

Ditto ... to my answer is the same as on your other thread ... OBW!

As AuntPiggyLPN .... 60 degreesx3 gives you an equilateral triangle. Two together gives you a diamond. Six a hexagon.

dunngriffith

They are beautiful quilts!!

QuiltnLady1

The 60 degree ruler is more versitile than the diamond ruler since you can make hexagons, OBO, diamonds or 1essalations. There is a really cool table runner that is made from border stripes using the 60 degree ruler at the ends.

Here is a link to the patter for the table runner -- it was free at one time but no longer.
http://quiltersobsession.com/easy-st...er-p-3593.html

crafdldy

I have just cut out 2 table runners which needed a 60 degree
triangle. One of my cutting boards was used to make the required triangle out of plastic. My table runners look great. I also used the extra triangles pieces to make a round table ornament which is almost nicer than the runners. LOL
Dee

QuiltE

Depending on what you are doing, you may not need 60 degree rulers ... a lot of the regular rulers and the cutting mats have 60°, 45° and other °'s marked on them

QM

Agreed. I frequently use these angles on quilts.

hopetoquilt

When making a tumbling block quilt the traditional way, doing the Y seams, you would use a diamond shape to cut the pieces. When you follow Marcy Baker's Not Your Grandmother's Tumbling Blocks which are strip pieced, you use a special type of 60 degree ruler. Hope that makes sense.

np3

cute pattern