Quilter’s Rule Nautilus Feather tool
 

I saw this tool demonstrated at the Wisconsin Quilt Expo yesterday, and the demonstrator showed that if you don’t move the template you get spirals (obviously) but I don’t remember how she did move it to Make feathers! Their online .pdf instructions only show spirals...

https://quiltersrule.com/individual-...l&category=921

Does anyone know how to make feather loops with it? Is there another video or instruction sheet somewhere?

Thanks in advance.

Is this what you saw? https://quiltersrule.com/instructions/HMQT-NFT.pdf

I have this ruler and I have only used it to make the spine and then freehanded the feather fill or leaf fill.

QuiltnNan—Yes, and it only shows spirals. The demonstrator flipped the template over (I think...) to do the feathers. I’ll just have to mess with it until I figure it out, I guess!

Feline fanatic—I don’t mind making the spines freehand, but wanted the tool to help me make feathers that don’t look mutant. LOL

also have the ruler and also only used it to make the feather spines, not the feathers. The instructions I received showed other ways to use, but I've never seemed to figure it out!

You turn the ruler so the 'branches' go in alternate directions. Mark the lines with a marker or stitching, then quilt the feathers along both sides of the line - as shown in many feather tutorials/videos. The ruler just gives you a consistant spine for the feathers.

There is a video on Youtube. The lady speaks a foreign language, but shows how to do feathers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLqHsqWLOFY

Thanks, everyone; you’re right, you only use this Nautilus tool to do the spines and “embellish” (make the actually feather loops) some other way. the demonstrator used something to guide the loops—I’ll contact them and see what it was.

Go to the instruction tab and look at each category. There are instructions for each.