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Old 02-22-2021, 01:31 PM
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thepolyparrot
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This is the kind of pineapple quilt I want to make - love the fabrics! I have enough of the Lynn Graves foundation paper to make a king sized quilt and I've cut a huge bag of strips for it, already. Someday.

In the meantime, I bought this Creative Grids pineapple ruler and I should have watched more than one YouTube video before buying it.

After I placed the order, I watched several more and learned that first, the strips have to be 1¾" wide, not 1½" like with the foundation paper - and there is so much fabric wasted with this ruler! Watching these quilters whack off 30-40% of the fabric they've just sewn on every round is shocking!

I'm probably going to send it back when it gets here and go with my original plan.

I have a big bin full of specialty rulers still in their packages - some are at least 12 years old.

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