Updated 5/07/07

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There are presently 37 Tips & Tricks that you can download. Some of these Tips & Tricks are Web pages and some are PDF pages. You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view the PDFs in your browser; if you don't already have it, you can get it by clicking here. You can print Web pages and PDFs by selecting "print" in your browser toolbar. If you are looking for FREE PATTERNS, click here.

CATEGORIES
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
Sewing 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

Quick Cut and Chain Piece Half-Square Triangle Units

Cut Away to Create a Sewing Line

PDF The Best Way to Cut Strips : Use Your Templates

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:

Cutting and Sewing

PDF Quick Cut and Chain Piece the Perfect Patchwork Template Way Starting with Four Patch Units Also includes a list of all sizes of squares in the Perfect Patchwork System

"Square Up" with Templates

Improving the "Snowball Trick"

(More on sewing)

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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. (If you are on a PC and have trouble, try this link: .exe)

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.

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Flying Geese Tricks

Make Bigger Flying Geese-type Triangles

17 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