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These apps have stood the test of time and provide real value to a quilting user. The list below outlines the best quilting apps in the business. From apps that help you make your very own quilting pattern to apps that help you picture your fabric stash on a quilt pattern, these techy tools are sure to transform your quilting life with just a few taps of your iPhone or Andriod. Many of the quilting apps listed below are designed specifically to help with these tasks. From designing the initial layout to choosing the fabric and cutting it just right, there's a lot of precise work and time-consuming parts of quilting that do not include sitting down at your sewing machine. We all know how much time creating a quilt can take. If there are several different usable widths, then use the narrowest measurement for the calculations for each fabric used in the strip set.You might not believe it but there are a ton of quilting apps out there designed especially to make your quilting life easier. With strip piecing, the fabric-strips are sewn together, pressed and then cut into units/patches.
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If all the rectangles are cut and stitched individually, then it doesn't make any difference if the yardage is of different widths-simply do the computations for each unique patch from each unique fabric. The strip piecing technique adds an extra 'twist' on the quilt fabric yardage calculations.
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Repeat the process for the light (remember it's only used once in each unit):ģ24 patches ÷ 7/strip = 46.285 or 47 stripsħ0.5" ÷ 36" = 1.958 rounded up to 2 yar ds PLUS your insuranceĪ note about 'usable width' and strip piecing. Plugging in these values for the dark or medium fabrics:Ħ48 patches ÷ 7/strip = 92.571 or 93 stripsģ-7/8 yards each of a dark and a medium PLUS your insurance To calculate the quilt fabric yardage for our Option 2 block, follow the same steps, noting that: Since each unique patch is identical in size, the quilt fabric yardage for the medium and dark fabrics is also equal to 3 yards PLUS your insurance amount.
Used in a scrap quilt later, or perhaps even in a pieced backing for This quilt, 5/8 yard looks like a fair amount.
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This time round up because we use full strips, so it takes a total of 43 strips to cut 256 light rectangles. Since we can't piece with partial patches, round down to get 6 unique light patches from one stripĢ56 patches ÷ 6 patches/strip = 42.666 strips The decimals go on and on, but there's no need to go further than 3 places. Multiply this by the number of blocks that contain it:Ĥ/block x 64 = 256 light patches How many light patches can be cut from a width of fabric?Įach light patch is 2-1/2" x 6-1/2" where 6-1/2" is the unfinished length of a unit. Simply count how many times the light patch appears in the block. How many of the unique light patch are needed?
There are three unique patches-a light rectangle, a medium and a dark one-in each unit.2-1/2" strips of each fabric are needed.Record and label the result in an orderly fashion so it's easy to recall at a later date.Multiply the number of strips by the strip's width.How many strips will it take to get the required quantity of a unique patch.Determine how many of a unique patch can be cut from the usable width of fabric.Identify each unique patch in the design.Please read this caution about different fabric widths. Usable width equals the full width from selvedge to selvedge MINUS the selvedges. Identify the usable width of fabric (this can change from fabric to fabric and may be quite different for unwashed versus prewashed fabrics).Choose the method of piecing: Different techniques have different fabric requirements (for examples visit Beginner Quilt Block Patterns and Units).To determine how much fabric is needed to make a quilt, we compute the amounts needed for each unique patch in the design using the following steps: Simple steps for manually figuring quilt fabric yardage