Roll some masking tape (sticky side out) to put on the back of the pattern to help hold it in place. Once you are happy with the placement mark the seam lines with a ruler in three places for proper alignment as you cut six pattern pieces. The “edges” need to be at an angle to create the star shape. When deciding on the placement be sure that you do NOT have a 90 degree right angle between the “edge” and a seam line. It is a good idea to choose a patterned fabric for the very center of the star to camouflage the seams all coming together. The first piece you will cut from the strip sets will be #5. Be sure to keep all these pattern pieces together for future use. Carefully align your ruler on the drawn line to cut the pattern wedge apart from the other two. It is also very important to mark the edges as noted. Ricky suggests making colored pencil designs to help align the pattern pieces after they are cut apart. You then make a few lines that kinda look like a braid creating five sections that will be your pattern pieces. Measure 18” from the corner and make a mark on each line, then connect the lines as pictured. I think it is better to take a few minutes now to be accurate before any fabric is cut. When I did a double check, mine was off just slightly as the ruler shifted, so I started over with a new piece of freezer paper. It is very important to get these first lines drawn accurately. Move the ruler so the 30 degree line is on the line you just drew and the corner. You start by aligning the 30 degree line with the edge of the square paper and the corner. I found it was easier to be standing at a table to do my measurements to have a better view of the ruler. Measure it to be sure it is perfectly square, mine was actually 17 ⅞” off the roll. To get started you will need an 18” square of freezer paper. I really like that this quilt is truly unique and its design is determined by my decisions as I draw the pattern. This week the focus is on the process of drafting a “one of a kind” pattern to create the template. But once you learn this preparing and cutting technique, you can use it to cut as many pieces for a block as you want.My Quilting adventure continues this week with an update on my Ricky Tims Kool Kaleidoscope quilt project. You can make kaleidoscope blocks with how many pieces you want (at least three), the more pieces you use, the more complex the work.įor these patterns I decided to work with 4 pieces, in order to simplify the instructions and offer you a quick and easy pattern. But I love so much the kaleidoscope effect on blocks so I started again sewing kaleidoscopes, but with a little modified technique, that does not require pins at all and does not stretch my patience to the roof! Lately I just don't have patience for this. This requires lots of pins, lots of patience, lots of time. You can cut shapes with the same print using different techniques: for just a few blocks you can fussy cut the pieces or for lots of blocks you can stack multiple layers of fabrics with the same print, matching the motifs of the print design. The kaleidoscope quilt patterns is all about pieces of fabric (in various shapes) with identical print you arrange the pieces with corners with the same design at center and you get a beautiful, circular design at center, created by symmetry.
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