Looking for ruler
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Looking for ruler
I hope someone can help me, I'm trying to make Eleanor Burn's Peony pattern from her Egg Money Book. She makes flying geese with 2 different sized sqs. sews corner to corner all 4 corners then cuts, uses some sort of flying geese ruler she makes. I'd like to use the usual flying geese which is easy. Hers is complicated and wasteful. Anyone??????
#3
I actually made flying geese on my last quilt using EB's ruler, and it wasn't wasteful or complicated. Only a couple of slivers of fabric were lost in the process, and the geese came out perfectly. I thought it was a big time saver over the methods that are completely waste-free. However, you can make geese using any method you like and the quilt will look the same.
#4
Here is a video tutorial from Missouri Star Quilt Co on how to use Eleanor Burn's ruler. I think it makes more sense when you see someone doing the method
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKfM3pJYSmc
PeggyB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKfM3pJYSmc
PeggyB
#6
i agree that EBs method is not wasteful. i've wanted to get her ruler, but couldn't afford it early on. so i used a regular ruler just lining up the top and side measurements on my ruler. i'm so used to it now, i don't need to buy yet another ruler
#8
I like the no-waste method that is the second method on this tute:
http://www.connectingthreads.com/tut...hods__D15.html
It takes a bit of getting used to, but I hate the waste of the method described in the video or the rectangle/ small squares one.
http://www.connectingthreads.com/tut...hods__D15.html
It takes a bit of getting used to, but I hate the waste of the method described in the video or the rectangle/ small squares one.
Last edited by Belfrybat; 08-31-2013 at 06:58 AM.
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My only beef is she has a small and large geese ruler. You can get both for $14 or $7 a piece. Yet although it means keeping up with 2 rulers, even I can make perfect geese with her rulers. I haven't found there to be a lot of fabric waste, just keeping up with 2 rulers.
#10
Dunster and Berry -- when I've used that method, depending on the size of the geese, I end up cutting 1 inch off the side. How do you make your with less waste?
Last edited by Belfrybat; 08-31-2013 at 07:02 AM.
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