As I have been stitching my Christmas Star EPP blocks, I’ve been wondering, “How do I bring this home?” 🤔 How do I finish the quilt? I’ve thought about more blocks…eh… I’ve thought about half blocks…then it occurred to me: I could have ANOTHER block to really emphasize the secondary shape! And that’s what I […]
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The LAST thing we quilters like is M-A-T-H….and Geometry is for the birds. Somehow I got an A in Geometry. I couldn’t tell you a thing I learned in Geometry…I always thought it was a cheater class…if you proved your theorems, you were right. UGH. Here’s the thing about Geometry: An angle is an angle, […]
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Is it possible to use regular rulers to fussy cut?I INSTANTLY fell in love with English paper piecing, but the practicality of project specific templates was enough to drive me batty. Enter geometry. I’m really not great a math…but LIGHT BULB MOMENT: all shapes have the same angle regardless of the size!! That meant that […]