Hello everybody,
What do I call traditional quilts?
I call traditional quilts, quilts made out of squares that are geometrical, made of shapes such as squares, rectangles, triangles, most were given names to make it easier to recognize.
To make these shapes you can either draw them on a piece of paper, cut the paper template, trace it on a fabric, add a seam allowance of a quarter inch and then piece the fabrics together. That is how I started 30 years ago!!
A few years after that, I started using plastic templates, there are many available on the market, my favorite ones are the Marti Michell templates.
I like the fact that they are thick, so when you slide the rotary cutter against the side you will avoid slipping and cutting yourself, and I also like the special corners, very useful especially for the triangles.
I made lots of videos on youtube using the templates and showing how accurate they are for the intersections.
The first video was only in French, as I wanted to present the templates to the French ladies.
The three following videos are in French and English (there is a banner at the bottom to indicate when I am speaking English).
I have been designing quilts with "traditional blocks" motifs:
This is my five patch design.
There are many possibilities when using the "traditional blocks":
I really enjoyed playing with the basic shapes (squares, triangles), and also other shapes such as trapeze, kite and pyramid.
But working with templates has one condition, it is that a template has a set size and you need to know something about blocks to use them properly.
I will tell you all about that next week.
manou
PS: Here is another block to work with for the Mini Quilt Fun, just click on the link, type in your name and mail and you will get the document immediately, the purpose of not accessing the PDF straight away is that it allows me to have statistics on how many people were interested by my document : PDF
Bonjour Catherine,
Je comprends votre frustration, la raison pour laquelle mon blog est uniquement en anglais c'est parce que j'ai un projet à venir et il ne sera fait qu'en anglais. Cherchez sur internet, il existe peut être des applications que vous installez sur votre ordinateur et qui va traduire la page en français.
Toutes mes excuses
Emmanuelle
Rédigé par : Manou | lundi 14 octobre 2019 à 16:14
Bonjour Emmanuelle?
Pouvez vous me dire comment faire pour recevoir votre newslater en français ?
ça fait 3 fois que je ne la vois quand anglais et mon anglais commence à dater.
Merci.
Cordialement.
Catherine
Rédigé par : catherine | mardi 08 octobre 2019 à 12:29