This tool is also great for precisely constructing flying geese and half square triangle units. You can also use this ruler as a compass and draw perfect circles with it! Before the demo ended I had this ruler and a pattern (Old Dog, New Tricks) in my hand ready to check out! I will be experimenting with the ruler in the coming weeks and blogging about my results, stay tuned. Take a few minutes and watch the video found at the Quick Trim Ruler link above. Believe me, you will be as amazed at the versatility of this ruler as I was and I know you're going to want your own.
You can see the binding join, above, as the binding strip was applied to this scrappy tumbler quilt; perfect alignment after stitching with no dog ears to trim. Nice. This ruler also has a special highlighted line at 2.25", exactly the width I cut my binding; it's like this tool has ESP! This was the view across my sewing table after lunch yesterday... it was a bright and cheerful sight!
"TMX2 Again" with its binding in place, seam line marked for stitching; and "DeRailed", in the background, ready to be loaded onto Snowbird.
I did get the binding stitched and basted in place for hand sewing later. All in all it was a good day, made even easier by a great new tool.
Life is Good!
3 comments:
Your quilts a beauty! A quilter can't live without all her rulers! That said, I only own three. :)
The creative grid rulers are really nice especially the ones Lisa Bongean uses for miniatures
Karen Montgomery owns The Quilt Company in Allison Park, PA, my local quilt store when I was living near Pittsburgh. Spent a lot of time (and $$) there and she was always available to suggest a fabric, share an idea or just joke around with. An extremely talented woman and I am happy when I now get to see her at quilt shows (e.g., AQS, etc.) If you ever get to take a class with her, do yourself a favor and DO ... she's very creative and hands on when it comes to teaching. Glad you liked her rulers ... I love mine, too! Linda
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