Originally Posted by EasyPeezy
Actually I have this book. Thanks for reminding me. I need to revisit this one.
Do you use templates? How do you make yours? Special plastic? Cardboard?
Any tips would be appreciated.
I haven't dared to do any of the REALLY complicated ones. When I have done blocks from the book they've been "one offs", so I just made templates out of paper or the cardboard from file folders. Only one has been a raging disaster - I tried to do the double wedding ring block at 4" and after cutting all the tiny pieces and sewing the block up, it wouldn't lie flat. I wanted to cry. It was just beyond my skill set at that time. Maybe later I'll go back and try again.
Some of the easier patterns I don't make templates for - I can measure the pictures, add seam allowances and rotary cut, or figure out the grid and add seam allowances to rotary cut. That works best if they're on a 4 patch grid, of course.