Dozens of Quilting Tips & Tricks!
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Marti demonstrates how to check your 1/4-inch seam allowance.
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Cutting with our Templates
Cutting and Sewing
Designing Your Quilt
Diagonal Set Triangle Rulers
Drunkard's Path Tricks
Flying Geese Tricks
Folding Mirror Tricks
Giant Dahlia
Grid Papers to Print
Reverse Applique Sunburst (PDF)
Swirl Pressing (PDF; example block is Sunset Canoes from The Romance Continues BOM)
Teach Your Templates New Tricks
Winding Ways Quilt Block
Use our Templates to make the quilts you see in books and magazines
Cutting with our Templates
Rotary Cutting Tips
Quick Cut and Chain Piece Four Patch Units
Quick Cut and Chain Piece Half-Square Triangle Units
Cut Away to Create a Sewing Line
Teach Your Templates New Tricks
PDF The Best Way to Cut Strips : Use Your Templates This is Marti's favorite way to cut strips - no more repositioning after truing up the edge!
PDFs. Strip Yield Charts for Template Sets Charts are designed to help you figure how many pieces you can cut from strips wide enough for individual template shapes, and also can be used to determine yardage requirements. Charts show the orientation of templates, strip widths and number of pieces yielded per strip for each template shape. Charts assume strips are cut on the lengthwise grain; therefore the longest strip on any chart is 36". Download individual pages from this list for the template sets you own:
| Set A Set B |
Set C Set D |
Set E Set F |
Set G Set H |
Set L Set M |
Cutting and Sewing
PDF Quick Cut and Chain Piece Four Patch Units. Also includes a list of all sizes (21!) of squares in the Perfect Patchwork System.
Improving the "Snowball Trick"
PDF Swirl Pressing highlighted on Marti's Sunset Canoes block design from the Romance Continues Block fo the Month program.
Designing Your Quilt
PDF Download a Design Grid Papers for Kaleidoscope Quilts for use with our new Kaleidoscope ABCs book. (2.8 MB)
PDF Design Grid Papers for 60° Family Shapes excerpted from Six is For Hexagons, Volume 6 in the Encyclopedia of Patchwork Blocks.
More PDFs grid papers to download:
| Storm at Sea | Flying Geese | Drunkard's Path | Kaleidoscope |
| Winding Ways | Tessellating Windmills | Pineapple Layouts for 8230 & 8231 |
Diagonal Set Triangle Rulers
PDF Patchwork Trix
Make blocks float on the background of the quilt by cutting larger setting and corner triangles with the Diagonal Set Triangle Ruler.
Drunkard's Path Tricks
PDF 20 Drunkard's Path blocks and 10 downloadable Color and Design pages
Cut 6 sizes of circles with our templates.
Flying Geese Tricks
Make Bigger Flying Geese-type Triangles
35 Sizes of Flying Geese!
Flying Geese coloring sheet and tips for figuring quilt size
Folding Mirror Tricks
A Trick with Mirrors
Make Fake Diamonds
Giant Dahlia
How to Make a Giant Dahlia Christmas Tree Skirt. If you liked Marti's tree skirt on "Simply Quilts," you might want to print out this page.
PDF Giant Dahlia, King Size Version to make with our Dahlia templates
Sewing Tricks
Making Perfect Mitered Corners
Winding Ways Quilt Block
PDF Winding Ways Coloring Sheet. Color your own quilt design to make using our Winding Ways templates
Use our Templates to make the quilts you see in books and magazines
We encourage you to check your collection of From Marti Michell templates whenever you see a quilt in a magazine that you'd like to make. You may be surprised by how many just-the-right-size basic geometric shapes you already own!
Make quilts in Fons and Porter's "Love of Quilting"
PDF Template Conversion Charts for Two of Your Favorite Books
The New Sampler Quilt and P.S. I Love You Two!
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NOTE: Most of the instructional information and artwork shown is excerpted from my books. Like other published material, it is protected by copyright law, but you have my permission to print and download these materials for your own non-commercial use.