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Turn Long Triangles into Vibrant Quilts the Easy AnglePlay™ Way
• 42 dazzling blocks with easy-to-use cutting charts, piecing illustrations, and full-size template patterns
• 6 eye-catching quilts with complete patterns and instructions
• Mix and match blocks into your own dynamic quilts
• Use AnglePlay™ plastic templates or make your own with the included template patterns
Excerpt from the book:
Step out of the ordinary and into a whole new world of piecing possibilities with quilts made from half-rectangle triangles. Margaret's AnglePlay™ method makes them a breeze to cut and piece. You'll create quilts with a sense of life, movement, and elegant curves, even though all the piecing is in easy straight lines.
Welcome to more fun in the world of elongated triangles—the ones that make rectangles, not squares, when they are sewn together! If you have worked with the block patterns in the first book in this series, AnglePlay™ Blocks, you know how much fun adding this shape to the squares and half-square triangles of traditional patchwork can be!
The elongated triangle shape has been difficult to piece in the past because of the excess seam allowance beyond the narrowest point. In addition, the diagonal seam does not exit the cut edge where you expect it to. Draw a square and a rectangle on a piece of paper. Draw a 1/4" seam allowance around each shape. In the square, draw a diagonal line that divides the square from corner to corner (to create half-square triangles). Note that the diagonal goes through the corners of the seam lines and the corners of the cutting lines.
Now draw the same diagonal line through the rectangle, being sure to line up your ruler with the corners of the seamlines, not the cutting line. Note that the diagonal does not exit the cutting edge in the corner! With every different size of rectangle, the diagonal exits the cut edge at a different place.
The solution to both of these dilemmas, the excess seam allowance and nonstandard emergence of the diagonal seam through the raw edge of the patchwork shape, is AnglePlay™ templates for rotary cutting the half-rectangle shape. Each of the templates on which this book is based is trimmed at exactly the correct angle; this takes all the guesswork out of matching two fabric triangles for sewing. Moreover, the sewn results are accurate every time: the diagonal seam of the half-rectangle shape comes to the corner perfectly where units or blocks are joined together.
A few of the blocks in this book are reinterpretations of traditional blocks, but most are original blocks I developed by playing with colored paper shapes on my kitchen counter and photographing the results. So many blocks emerged (I stopped myself from generating more of them at block number 233!) that I eventually used the computer program EQ5 to organize them and to develop even more designs.
Welcome to the wide world of AnglePlay!!
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