gaigai

No, you need to buy the book. The tute by cutebuns gives some hints, but it is by no means comprehensive. Someone else found this out within the last week. You can find the book fairly cheaply on Amazon and Ebay. It is well worth the investment.

k3n

I nearly had a cow when she started to rip it in the middle one - you'll pull the warp and weft crooked and NEVER get the repeats to line up! :shock:

Katrine

I'm with Gai and k3n - why have all the hassle of possible errors - get the book. You then have help with how to choose a fabric, colours, repeat measurement queries, yield of blocks per repeat. What to do with fabric before cutting. How to line up, pin and cut repeats. How to stack accurately and securely for cutting. Best tools to use. How to construct rows and the whole quilt. How to extend the design into the border, different border ideas. Loads of illustrations, examples of finished quilts.
All in a compact book at your elbow.

gaigai

While there are lots of good posts/tutes about doing the OBW, none of them are comprehensive. All of us who have made OBW's are happy to help and give advice to someone who has the book but is still struggling with a specific aspect. . But giving someone what is essentially the contents of the whole book is not only unfair, it is a violation of copyright law.

There is more to the process than just cutting strips and sewing pieces together. How you choose your repeats, how to align and pin and cut, and then how to construct the block is much more involved than a regular pieced block like a log cabin for example. It really is a complex process, but not necessarily a very difficult one.

So, whether you buy a used copy or a new one, please buy the book before you ask for advice. It's the right thing to do. Then you will get all the help you need.

k3n

I agree with Gai entirely. :-D