Introduction Fussy Cutters Manifesto First Rule of the Fussy Cutters Club What is Fussy Cutting? Learn the Basics to Master the Complex The Projects in Fussy Cutters Club Cloth Tales Sidebar: Fabric 101 Selecting Fabrics for Fussy Cutting Organizing Your Fabric Collection Tools of the Trade Tutorial: Seeing Secondary Patterns With a Hinged Mirror Tutorial: Adding a Seam Allowance to Acrylic Templates Tutorial: Making a Template with Template Plastic Tutorial: Making a Laminate Template How to be a Fussy Cutter Traditional Fussy Cutting Improvisational Fussy Cutting Tutorial: How to Improvisational Fussy Cut Fussy Cutting for Color Sidebar: Bias and Grain for Fussy Cutters Making the Cut Tutorial: Fussy Cutting Without a Template Tutorial: Fussy Cutting With an Acrylic Template Tutorial: Fussy Cutting a Repeating Design Basics of the Game To Wash or Not to Wash Machine Piecing Tutorial: Accurate 1/4" Seams English Paper Piecing Tutorial: English Paper Piecing Quilt Finishing Tutorial: Double-Fold Straight-Grain Binding Tutorial: Adding Binding to a Quilt Projects to Get You Hooked Nine-Patch Potholder Super Star Coasters Hexy Pin Up Pincushion 1-2-Sucker Pouch Fussy Designing: Improvisational Piecing Improv-able Dream Pillow Fussy Designing: Using Big Prints Projects to Feed Your Appetite Fabric Serenade Mini Quilt Fussy Designing: Creating an Uninterrupted Look A Flock of Seagulls Table Runner Fussy Designing: Achieving a Rainbow Gaggle of Geese Placemat Fussy Designing: To Match Or Not To Match When Making a Set Tote Amazeballs Projects to Cement Your Love Affair Rainbow I Spy Baby Quilt We Are All Connected Mini Quilt Inception Squared Quilt Focal (On) Point Quilt Crouching HST, Hidden Churn Dash Resources About the Author
Angie Wilson strongly believes that everyone should make time and space for being creative. She has been a creative blogger since 2002 and can't imagine life without it. Angie lives in Canberra, Australia, with her very understanding husband and son.
December 2017 Angie Wilson defines fussy cutting as 'When you find
a particular design, picture or print in your fabric and then cut
around it so it fits into a patch or block on your quilt or sewing
project.' Sounds simple doesn't it? Why is it then that whenever I
consider fussy cutting I think of a multitude of ways in which it
can go wrong? Designs off-centre, despite all my best attempts, and
secondary designs turning into a swirling mass of psychedelia!
Angie promises you can get started with nothing more than a rotary
cutter and a ruler but I'm not convinced. However Angie and her
book shout 'you can do it' and give a hundred tips to help me on my
way. She talks of looking at your fabrics in terms of size of
print, repeats and considering your seam allowances before you get
cracking, she speaks of fab tools such as hinged mirrors that are
particularly good for working out those pesky secondary designs,
then she talks about templates, even ones that you can make
yourself out of cereal packets! Projects are zippy and stylish.
There are pincushions, mini quilts, tablemats, and runner, and a
stylish tote bag and loads of tips and techniques along the way.
Angie sees fussy cutting as a way of expressing herself through the
perfect choice of imagtes and words and delights in 'cutting fabric
with intent.' That sounds fierce and now, even for me, a little
more doable.
*Popular Patchwork*
I must say first of all, that I am not a fussy cutter, yet I do
admire those perfect cuts, arranged to feature the fabric. It is
extreme fabric play. The book includes the basics, tools, suitable
fabric guide, tutorials, colour, cutting, piecing and finishing.
Tutorials include EPP, cutting to make a new repeat and other
how-to's. There are 14 projects to ensure you get to grips with
fussy cutting. It's all about the placement of the print within the
design of the quilt. So you would cut out the motifs from the
background print. Great projects include a nine-patch pot holder,
coasters, pincushion, pouch, cushion (pillow), mini quilts and
other quilts, table runner, place mats and totes using different
techniques. The clear instructions are accompanied by excellent
photos and line drawings.
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