I go to my local hardware store with the exact measurements in hand, and ask them to cut a one eighth inch think piece of Plexiglass. I have had several done there and they usually cost between $3 and $4. A good investment, IMHO.

I love doing business with them and they will custom make any size you want with or without seam allowance and very reasonable prices

Last year, I had 3 templates cut from 1/4" Plexiglas for a drunkard's path quilt. The local glass company that I always do business with cut them for me. I intend to use my 28mm rotary cutter w/them. That's one of the next quilts that I will be doing. I don't know what it would cost, because it took him a month to get around to doing it (he kept forgetting to take the paper templates home), he says it took about 5 min to cut them, so he didn't charge me. One of the perks of always doing business w/the same people.

UPDATE: A letter from Dereck follows:

Hi Terri:

No there are no plastic templates available for Stardust. You have to make
your own. In the old days when I learned to quilt we made our templates
out of cardboard. I used cereal boxes for instance. Of course we did not
use rotary cutters in those days. You can buy template plastic at you
local quilt store. It will not stand up to a rotary cutter either so what
you should do is use a fine pointed marker. Draw around the template,
remove it then cut out the pieces 4 layers at a time by putting your ruler
on the drawn line and rotary cutting it (straight lines only). Cut the
curves with scissors. You can also punch holes in your template to mark
the seam dots so you can match them up which really helps in this quilt
because of the odd shaped pieces.

You can not paper piece this quilt because of all the curved seams.

Happy Quilting
Dereck C. Lockwood


Back to 'grandma days'! Thanks for all the input here. Will let you know
what I learn what the template lady in Oregon says. But, with the curves,
perhaps the 'cereal box' is the best option.

I did a quilt once where I cut the template pieces out of template plastic. I then put blue painter's tape rolled into a circle on the back of each. I put the templates on the fabric and then put my clear ruler on top and cut away using my rotary cutter. It was for a wall hanging so not that many pieces but this is a suggestion.

Geri, Blazing Stars, the quilt below Stardust, is the log cabin.
Terri 123, be sure to keep us informed with your progress. Good luck!

In that case, if you have to make your own templates, you can save some money by cutting them out of the flat middles of plastic lids from sour cream, cottage cheese, etc. If you have access to some clear ones they're the nicest. I quickly made a collection of these, and after cutting off the raised edges, they take up very little space stacked up in a box. If you need any, I can share.... Just pm me.

I asked the local high school shop teacher if his students could make accurate templates. It helps if you have a student in the school, or know another of the teachers maybe. But they did it and did a great job. It was a tumbler for using with 5" squares/charms. I'm sure it was a scrap pc of plexi.

My first thought also when I looked at the pattern would be to paper piece it. Also here in CA we have a store called Tap Plastics that will cut plexiglass. Maybe you have something similar close that you could try.

Hi that is a good link for templatesl-thanks for sharing

I broke by accident a ruler. I have been using the sections for wonderful things. Using a very fine saw I managed to cut one in the correct shape for a template. I using glass paper and other sand paper to smooth edge.

UPDATE:
The templates (Oregon business) for this quilt will cost $113 plus shipping. 25 of them.
Really, that's not a bad price at all.

However, I had some plexiglass pieces and my SIL worked with me and we made them
on his Ban saw. (We tried the scroll saw and all it did was melt the plexi.)
We cut them a tiny bit larger and used fine sandpaper to smooth the
edges as much as we could. It DID work. However, I will use my ruler to make sure
the border lines are straight when I cut the pieces. It took about 3 hours to do the 25.
And for the curved pieces parts...those are scissor cuts.

I haven't begun yet, but I'm certainly closer than I was. LOL

Oh, my glass place said they'd cut a couple of them for me so that's nice to know! Good
suggestion and thanks.

Happy quilting!

This Stardust quilt is driving me crazy. I guess I'm not a "y" seam quilter. When you have 20 points
coming together.........forget it! Will put it aside for a week...or month. LOL

Put the fabrics in your stash and use them to make a quilt that you enjoy more....

That's a definite idea! I'm still working on it, but it's not fun anymore.

I am doing a Dereck Lockwood pattern and what I did was to copy the template pieces, cut them out and use elmers glue to adhere to the fabric. Mine are rectangular - so I placed them on the edge of the fabric and used my 24" ruler and rotary cutter to cut the strips to size. Your pattern looks a lot more complicated that the one I am working on, but something similar might work.

As for as getting glass companies to cut for you... I called where I lived. When I asked about accuracy, they said accurate to 1/16th inch. Told them sorry, that wasn't good enough for quilting.

A pattern should come with the kit and will tell you how to cut the pieces; it looks like paper pieced.

A pattern should come with the kit and will tell you how to cut the pieces; it looks like paper pieced. (I guess the pattern is sold separately on this one).