omak

Bless your little English heart <g> or, rather, your BIG English heart ... that was what I had in mind, dear ... I so appreciate your showing the two rulers working together.
Teamwork! One of the reasons this board is so good!
I mean! People actually want EVERYONE succeed at our chosen projects. Good show! <wave>

k3n

Omak - love ya! If there was a kiss-blowing smiley, I'd put it here, so consider yourself kissed! :-D

The Bag Lady

Cute Buns is there an inital list of supplies to purchase-fabric yardage, size of triangle ruler etc. I have been reading through the instructions but can not find everything that is needed. Is there a list of instructions that is more condensed so that there aren't so many pages.

cutebuns

We did talk on another thread on basics and fabric choices,

I can recommend one of two books, One Block Wonder (there is a sequal to that called One Block wonder Encore I believe) and the Stack-N-Wack Ipedia.

A straight ruler (preferably a longer one) , either a 60 degree ruler (the one I have is called a super 60) or if your regular ruler has the 60 degree line on it, rotary cutter and mat, and fabric,

The fabric is hard to say how much as it totally depends on what size your repeat is, and how big a quilt you would like, keep in in multiples of 6 repeats (unless you would like extra for borders. depending on your repeats you can get away with as little as a yard for a wall hanging,

The Bag Lady

Cute Buns ---I have been all through the directions and I did not see a list of supplies. That is why I was asking. Can you use
Oriental fabric or does it have to be flowery prints. Thanks

cutebuns

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-35100-1.htm

Here is where we talked of fabric, it is totally up to the quilter, as we see blocks being assembled there are all sorts of prints that have been used, you are looking for color more than print, a larger print with little to no background fabric.

salmonsweet

I've been doing more cutting, and am really grateful for everybody's advice. It was great to know I have options! In the mid-term I may decide to buy a cutter I can use with either hand. For now I'm happy to continue to contort... Figuring that if an experienced quilter and cutter (mimisharon) is doing it, it can't be all wrong! :-)

In case it helps any other contortionists out there, I noticed one tiny thing that helped me. Wihtout thinking about it, I was laying my strips along the horizontal lines of my cutting mat. Tempting, those lines! Now I orient the strip more along the diagonal, like in the pic below; and it means I twist a bit less when cutting the line along the left (starting at the selvedge in the picture):
(And yes, that's another fabric I'm cutting there...)

Pins n' Ndls

My grandmother was born in London. Does that make me a fellow limey ? HEE HEE HEE

Pinkiris

Hi, Cutebuns!

I've been following along with this thread, but haven't started my quilt yet due to other projects in the works. I noticed that on page 30, Piedmont Quilter mentions that she cut her strips 3.25" and that her triangles at 3.75". Is that possible? Maybe she misquoted one of the sizes, but I wanted to check with you to make sure...

Thanks, Sue

cutebuns

I imagine that she hit the wrong key when she was typing, you loose just over 1/2 inch with it being on the angle,