Sara: Hi, I'm Sara from Heirloom Creations and today is our Ruler of the Month.
Behind me are two quilts that we have used the Lazy Angle Ruler for.
This one is Hugs & Kisses and this one is the Lazy Leaves.
And so we're going to show you next how wonderful this ruler is to use and how many different
variations you can get by turning and twisting this ruler for lots of different shapes.
Like always I look at rulers and notice that there are always so many lines that I don’t
understand just by looking at it, but as soon as you get into having a fun pattern to work
with and start cutting out your shapes, you really see how beneficial a ruler as complex
as this is, how wonderful it saves you a lot of time and you're getting a variety of shapes.
For example, there are a ton of patterns already available.
This one, Taffy by Jaybird Quilts, Carnival, Firecracker, Unwind, Hugs & Kisses, Lazy Leaves,
Beach Ball, Lollipop Twist, and Confetti.
So let's jump in and I'll show you how we go about cutting for our shapes.
The traditional shapes that you get consist of a template A and a template B, as they'll
be described in a lot of the patterns, and how quickly when you put even something as
simple as these together, you get to meet pinwheel-type designs.
When you start off, you work with your fabric as the finished size that you want it to be.
So for example, this is a 4-1/2-inch strip that we'll start off with and that will finish
as 4-1/2-inch blocks.
So to cut for your template A, we'll line up the lines along the edge where it says
4-1/2 and 4-1/2 and go ahead and cut.
Now, a lot of the patterns require both a left and right facing units.
So just by going ahead and twisting, we can lay that unit and the ruler back down, find
the 4-1/2-inch lines here and go ahead and continue to cut, and you'll have--these will
be all the same facing directions by changing the way you lay out your fabric.
You'll get the other direction.
For cutting the template B side, we'll again use the strip size you need.
Line it up on the other side of the ruler and follow the lines at the 4-1/2-inch mark.
We'll cut the first one here and then to cut the other one, we'll actually flip the ruler
over, and once again we'll have the lines we need to use to find the right angle and
then cut the next piece.
When I was working with the leaf quilt, one of the pieces of the block required that I
take the ruler and a unit A and B sewn together, and then cut them so we can add in another
piece for the tip of the leaf.
Now, as we finish up for sewing, when you put these two pieces together, you line them
up to sew, you want the little points to overlap just a little bit and it kind of looks like
a little bow tie down here at the bottom corner.
So as you start your 1/4", you get the exact finish and that block turns out nice and even
at both edges.
Part of this block, you'll notice is that your middles or this part here connects to
the middle of the block.
So if you're going to put it with four-patch next to it, that's going to line up or even
with a square in a square.
That's going to easily come together at that same point, so this is great to combine with
a lot of other blocks.
For the Hugs & Kisses quilt, we started off with a pre-stitched strip.
This is turned out to be 6-1/2 inches and this ruler will go up to that size.
So as we are cutting our sizes here, we'll use the 6-1/2-inch line, line it up along
the bottom of our ruler and now we have that cut.
Once again, we can turn it and get the other cuts as well.
So try out the new Lazy Angle made by Creative Grids for a whole host of different blocks
that you can create.