Hi,
I have made a table runner of this pattern, in fact, I have acrylic templates for a small and a larger cut. My friend made a full size quilt of sq. dance, and she cut each one using one of our templates and a small rotary cutter, it wasn't fun. She made it at camp and I remember she spent most of one day cutting the squares. It is just beautiful!!! Even my little table runner is cool looking. I wouldn't do them with a scissors......I'd use a rotary cutter and just cut them out and be done. Good luck! Post a picture when you are done. Bev |
Hi Bevsie,
Thanks for your comments, I do appreciate your input, I will just have to plug away at it. It is fun to know that a fellow Minnesota quilter is on this board. I am north of MInneapolis, and have relatives around Grand Rapids. |
Hi Sewlady,
Glad to meet another Minnesota quilter! I am about 45 min. from Gr. Rapids.....close to Hibbing. I have a son in the Princeton/Zimmerman area.....frequent the quilt shops around there quite often. Happy cutting with your sq. dance squares.....it will be beautiful when finished. Keep us posted on your progress. Bev |
Hi I made one of these once and for me it went together very easy but I did trace around the template and cut with scissors and did not have any trouble putting it together good luck
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Dodie:
Thanks for the input. Appreciate it. Gwen |
Bevsie:
Thanks I will keep you posted. I belong to a $5 block group at the store in Princeton. Gwen |
Originally Posted by Izy
Sewlady...Is this the pattern, wow I LOVE the look of that... :D
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mK4vBT259aw/R-ZeiYskzeI/AAAAAAAAAFE/nYZMueemhvc/s400/Square%2BDance,%2Bunsewn.JPG&imgrefurl=http://angiequilts.blogspot.com/2008...cAulkEkkcmfv2M:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsquare%2Bdance%2Bquilt%2Bpattern%26um %3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4SUNA_enES268ES269%26sa%3 DN is there a free pattern for this somewhere in webland? butterflywing |
i know i have seen this pattern before called by a different name. it's right at the edge of my memory, but i know it was not done the same way. it was cut and sewn exactly as you would think, as pinwheel things that tesselate.
anybody know it by another name? |
Originally Posted by butterflywing
Originally Posted by Izy
Sewlady...Is this the pattern, wow I LOVE the look of that... :D
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mK4vBT259aw/R-ZeiYskzeI/AAAAAAAAAFE/nYZMueemhvc/s400/Square%2BDance,%2Bunsewn.JPG&imgrefurl=http://angiequilts.blogspot.com/2008...cAulkEkkcmfv2M:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsquare%2Bdance%2Bquilt%2Bpattern%26um %3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4SUNA_enES268ES269%26sa%3 DN is there a free pattern for this somewhere in webland? butterflywing If anyone knows the size of the template and is willing to share the info, I would very much appreciate it :D :D :D |
Izy:
This might help in designing a quilt to be similar to the one in the picture. Your template is designed by first drawing crossed lines at the angle of your choice say 57 degrees. THe x will be away from the corners. Where the two lines cross mark the middle of the x to make it in the middle of the size that would be half of the FINISHED measurements of the starting square. Say a 6" square would FINISH at 5 1/2 inches. You would then center the 5 1/2 on the line where the two lines intersect. Mark these with a dot and label a and b. Next make the box by drawing a new square with the ruler up and down using the ruler to draw the 90 degree line straight up and down and turn and make the other two sides to the width of the other two dots on the other sides. ( Roughly it would come out to sized up to be a 4 9/16 inches. The template is cut tracing the angles that were drawn on to the template. You need the angle lines on the template to line up on the seam lines of the first top that you sewed. Note: Write the words this side up on the top of the template so that you don't turn it when you start to cut out the top for the second time using the template. Don't let the size scare you as you will recut the sewn grid of your initial squares with the template intersecting lines laying on the seam lines of the grid. Whatever size you cut say 6" square sewn together in as many squares as you want, you would need to put on a border that measures 1/2 the width of the cut square plus 1/2 inch so it would end up to be 3 1/2 in border the length and width of the finished grid sewn with the initial straight set squares. This would frame the center with a color to set off the design to make it appear to be floating. then you would extend the cutting right out to the edge and the same color would go on all the around the new top. Then you could add any borders to you desire. Note: The second cut of the grid will be smaller than the 5 1/2 FINISHED size when you cut it out with the template. The new cut size is the 4 9/16 so it will finish at about 4 1/8 when the stitching the second time around is complete. The reason it is that way is because the square is now at the angle, so these seams will be on the bias, so it might be helpful to starch the fabric before sewing the first top together. Or just handle them carefully as to not distort the fabric. So you loose a bit by twisting the inside of the square. You might want to try it out on a small sample and see how it works, when you lay the template matching the former seam lines with the lines of the template you would cut it out and will notice that a small square is scrap for another project. ( Like when you use a square to sew a partial seam, only when you cut out the new template size that little square is leftover). So the grid is cut out at an angle with the edges at a tilt compared to the initial top that was put together. You can either trace around the template and cut with scissors or use a small rotary cutter, you just don't want to extend into the next square to cut. Then you keep them in the order as you cut them so the pieces of the ofset piece forms the offset pinwheel design. Just a recap note these lines you draw for the template must come out to measure the FINISHED size after sewing the first squares together, or it won't fit the first grid. Just a bit midboggling. This pattern came out published in a book but she said that you could design your own and even change that 57 degree angle, to get an entirely different look. Hope this helps. So it will depend on what size you want the inital squares to be before the customized template can be formed. I hope that this might be able to help with the confusion, that I have caused. If I can answer any other questions, let me know. |
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