You are at 35th Avenue and it is Black Bag Day. They surprised everyone and just put the 30's fabric on sale for 30% off. You've been doodling in your head and want to make a simple quilt with plain 3-1/2" blocks made with 1" sashing between each one. You know you will need 300 blocks. You will have 2 borders, one will be 2" and one will be 5". You want at least 6 fabrics for the blocks, a lovely creamy yellow for the sashing, and two different fabrics for the borders. How much of each fabric should you buy? Answer will follow in later post.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Using Your Quilting Calculator.
We had an abbreviated class in using the Quilt Calculator at RWYS. This tool is truly a gem and if you will just work through the syllabus and make up some problems, you will soon be proficient in its use. It will help you make scrappy quilts, calculate yardage needed, keep track of fabric expense for a project, convert metric to standard measurements....particularly if you like those English and Australian quilt books. Truly, you can have some fun. So here is a little problem for you to work through on your calculator:
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Sandy,
ReplyDeleteI didn't think I wanted a fabric calculator but after the class I went out and bought one (using at 40% off coupon at JoAnns). I haven't started playing with it yet but know I'll get a lot of use out of it after having gone thru the class to learn what it is capable of. Thanks for being to willing to help us to the 'next level'.
Thank you for the awesome class. I solved a very real problem with it the next day!
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