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Cutting accurate pieces is one of the first steps to creating a beautiful quilt so let s get started. Click here to cancel reply.

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Fold fabric salvage to salvage allowing it to lay flat while keeping salvages mostly lined up.

How to cut quilt blocks. Using your rotary cutter cut the fabric running along the side of the ruler to create a perfect straight edge. The most typical 9 square quilt is queen size. How to cut quilting squares using a clear ruler and rotary cutter place the fabric on a cutting mat with gridlines and fold it in half.

I used a white and a print square but you can use two prints or any combination. Draw two diagonal lines each from one corner to the opposite corner. We will then sub cut this strip into 4 1 2 inch squares.

Stop by my blog post for links to products mentioned in this video and to enter to win the. She recommends using fabric with motifs that are easy to cut out to make a block but also shows you how to use stripes a bias cut strip a border stripe and templates you may have made. Watch nancy demonstrate a handy tool for squaring up quilt blocks auditioning fussy cut motifs or lining up embroidery designs in quilt blocks with no marking necessary.

Cutting fabric is fundamental to quilting. Place them on top of. Cut a piece of freezer paper the exact size your unfinished quilt block should be.

We need to cut large pieces of fabric straight square fabric cut quilt squares fabric strips and a bunch of other stuff. Each block is made up of nine squares of contrasting fabric these squares are cut at 4x4inches. Line up the corner of a clear square edged ruler with the folded corner of your fabric.

Cut a horizontal straight line along the top in my example i cut 2 down from the top edge. Fold folded edge to salvage edges making sure fabric lays flat and that fold is. This means that it is 6 blocks wide and 8 blocks long.

We need to become acquainted with things like a rotary cutter scissors grain of fabric and of course we want to do it accurately. Repeat on the. The get squared ruler by.

Now that you have a perfectly straight edge with a perfect 90 degree angle we are going to cut a 4 1 2 inch strip of fabric. Easy stack cut and sew blocks tutorial. Laura roberts teaches you how to cut novelty fabric into little squares and make it into a block.

Draw two straight lines on the freezer paper s unshiny side one along the vertical center and one along the horizontal center. Layout 2 of the squares to make two blocks. How to cut quilt strips steps prepare your fabric for cutting by pressing out all folds and wrinkles with spray sizing.

Cut off about 0 5 in 1 3 cm of fabric to square the corner if needed.