Tonight I wish to write about You Tube. There are some wonderful short videos available on this site that directly relate to patchwork, quilting and machine embroidery. I am very interested at the moment in something called Smart Piecing. This is a method of cutting patchwork shapes such as half square and quarter square triangles from strips of fabric using special acrylic rulers. This method ensures accurate cutting( and therefore accurate piecing) and also uses much less material than if you had cut the pieces from squares or from templates. Even large side setting triangles can be cut this way from strips. No more cutting large blocks and then cutting in diagonals twice, that is in the past.
Missouri Quilt Company is one you can look at, they have lots of different short videos showing some wonderful quick methods of cutting and piecing your patchwork, but of course there are many other companies showing their methods. This is a fabulous way to get ideas, particularly if you are just starting out with patchwork. The rulers are available from most quilt supply shops. Here in Australia I get mine from Judy Hall at
www.punchwithjudy.com, but there are lots of other places and I notice my local patchwork shop is also starting to sell them.
I recommend having a look at these videos and will attach a link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOWSp0mTTqE&feature=fvsr
Bye for now
Jennine
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