Sara: Thank you for coming out to Heirloom Creations Ruler of the Month.
And I want to say hi to all our online viewers, as you've joined us, as each month, we've
featured a different ruler.
This month we're going to feature the Wonder Cut ruler.
I feel like I should have my superhero cape on, and a big W, because it's Wonder Cut ruler.
And with that I find a very easy way of cutting half-square triangles, and also triangles
and squares that turn into little pinwheels, all from a simple strip of fabric that is
sewn into a tube, with a seam on both sides.
From one strip, we're going to be able to get multiple half-square triangles, and then
we'll show how we do the little table runner here.
To use the Wonder Cut ruler, we'll start by cutting strips using the horizontal lines
on the ruler.
Now don't pick this ruler up if you are planning on just cutting strips.
This is not a three and a half inch line at all.
This is the size that's needed to cut the half square triangles from a strip of fabric.
Depending on what size you need for your blocks, if you need a three and a half inch sized
unfinished, you'll cut from the three and a half inch line.
Cut all your strips there.
On the page that comes with the ruler, there's a little cheat sheet, of how many half-square
triangles you'll be able to get from one strip.
So, With the three and a half inch size, we'll be able to get 15 different half square triangles.
We'll start off by, after you cut your strips, sew the two seams together.
Sewing along each side here, you can kind of see our two colors.
Then when you go to cut these out, I like to put a little glow line tape on the ruler,
so I don't have to keep searching for the line to use.
Usually I just take and put a piece along there.
Glow Line tape comes in a package with three different colors.
Flip it over, and then chop off the sides.
Done.
Place the ruler along the strip, along the line, and start cutting your half-square triangles.
Cut, turn, and cut.
You can see this will go very quickly when you need lots of them.
Do best press your strips before you actually start sewing them together.
That will help because these edges will be bias, and that will help them not stretch
when you actually go to sew them together.
When I started to sew the blocks together, I actually reduced the pressure of my sewing
machine presser foot, and it really helps kind of skim along those seams, and not actually
stretch them out when I'm sewing.
So as you can see, our half-square triangles start to multiply very quickly here.
Another version that you can get from the Wonder Cut ruler is these pinwheel blocks.
As you start to put them together, they kind of spin around for you.
You start off by taking your squares, and sewing them together, and then you put a strip
on the opposite side.
Put a strip on there, and sew on both sides, creating the tube.
Once you've created the tube, you place the ruler on the seam.
Now there's a vertical line here that we'll put that on, and cut.
From there you get that third size here in those little pinwheels.
Now sometimes you might need the brown say on the right, and sometimes you need the brown
on the left.
To change that up, all you need to do is slide over and cut one more strip from here, and
you'll get the opposite color way.
We'll do one so you can see.
Now we have the brown on the right, and the brown on the left.
Depending on how your blocks need to come out, you've got multiple options there.
I like just having to sew two seams, having all my half square triangles with the little
pinwheels come out with no fuss whatsoever.
Now to actually quickly sew this little table runner when I was all done, I just decided,
oh, I'll just stitch in the ditch.
I used the new Bernina Stitch in the Ditch foot.
That has a little guide that you can put on the walking foot, and then I could just stitch
right along here for a quick, easy finish.
If you have a Viking sewing machine, the interchangeable dual feed walking foot has also that ditch
stitching foot you can put onto this, and have the same result.
Join us next time as we feature the Creative Grid ruler that's the 60 degree Double Strip
ruler.
We'll see you then.