Abby,

This tutorial is great! Thank YOU! It will be so much easier than what I was doing. Wish I had asked my question earlier. Hey, now maybe I can tackle the basket!

Yikes, If anyone wants to know how to make things more difficult than they need to be, just let me know.

OOOO Looks like your working your way out of the slacker club :lol: I havent even printed out the first blocks templates. One question.... did you use the template from the book or the internet files? I want to try to save paper if I can, but don't want to print out the combined if they are not correct.
Brooke

Abby, great tutorial. Now, I am inspired to get my doll quilt started! Thank you for sharing and teaching this.

Ronda

The fabric is available at Walmart.

Never thought about those plastic folders for templates. Great idea! My kids bring used ones home from schools every year. Now I know how to recycle them.

Do try rotary cutting and quilt rulers if you get a chance. Most quilting templates are made just for odd shapes. Plastic folders would be great. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how much time and energy you save using a rotary cutter and quilter's ruler. No templates, seam allowance or scissors necessary. And the precision cutting really helps in your piecing. You can still draw a stitching line if you're hand sewing or haven't mastered that quarter-inch.

Ohh no I use rotery cutting all the time :D Dont think I could get anything done if I didn't lol.:lol:
I am just doing the templates for the farmer's wife quilt as that is what was provided for the book. I think someone is doing rotary cutting directions but I chose to do it this way for this quilt. Once you get all the templates made like for the farmer's wife there was 106 templates. Its not so bad as we are only doing 2 blocks a week so the time thing isn't a factor.
This is my slow down and enjoy the roses quilt.

I think that we have become so rotary cutting only that some people dont know how to do templates. This was how I started out in quilting so when some quilters were asking how I thought I would do a tutorial on it.

Thank you for the info. You explained it very well. I know this is gonna come in handy.

What a great tute! The search is on for the small hole punch!

I've always wanted one, and never had a reason to buy it.

Can't wait to try making my own templates. Thank you so much.

I did forget to mention in the tutorial that the hole punch is found in the scrapbook section

I was going to edit the first post but its taking a long time to load cus the pics

thanks for the tutorial