Playing with Templates
Jolene Star pattern by Laundry Basket Quilts.
I used a Rambling Rose Jelly Roll from Moda. Love the colors.
Pictured are the templates I’m playing with this week. There are some pretty funky shaped templates out in the quilting world!
I used to fear using templates, but lately, I am liking them. How about you, do you like using templates?
I’m a day late and a dollar short, but I’m linking up to Linky Tuesday and To-Do Tuesday.
My hopes for quilting this week are to finish a few blocks with the templates – rug mugs? And deliver the rest of the pillowcases I’ve made. Dare I mention the baby quilt now languishing in the corner patiently waiting for quilting? GOT to get to that!
Tags: Linky Tuesday, To-Do Tuesday
April 17th, 2015 at 22:03
I really love those colors in your Jolene Star pattern. Wow!
I haven’t used templates very much so far. I did use some that I had to print out for the Tula Pink Moxie quilt pattern. I ended up taping the pattern to some cardboard and used that to cut out the pieces. I did not like it very much, because I was a little aggressive with the rotary cutter and would cut into the cardboard. I think I would have liked it a lot better if I had acrylic templates.
How was cutting your pieces with the curved template? Did you have to trace and cut it out, or were you able to use a rotary cutter along side of it? The patterns look really interesting, maybe using templates more is something I should consider!
April 19th, 2015 at 08:53
Hi Christine, I think you would like acrylic templates better than cardboard because you would get more accurate fabric pieces. It is easy to use the templates with a rotary cutter – even the curved templates. If you go the cardboard route, I’d trace the shape on the fabric and cut out with scissors. All machine pieced too.