Today’s Quilter – September 2019

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REVERSING TEMPLATES

Tocreatesomecurvedblocks,templatesneedto be usedstraightand

alsoin a reversed(reflected)format.Thisoccursmostoftenwitha block

madeupof fourunitsin a Four-patchlayout.Thehourglassblock

belowis anexample.Thetemplateis showninFig10A, butyoucan

seeinFig10Bthatthefinalblockcannotbe madebysimplyrotating

theunit90-degreeseachtime.Twounitsareneeded,onea mirrorof the

other(Fig10C). Thetwolowerunitsarea repeatof theuppertwo,but

rotated180-degrees(Fig10D). Creating a reversed template can be

donein variousways...

TECHNICALTIP

Whenpressingpatchwork

curves,theseamallowance

willusuallynaturally

choosetofallinone

direction.Presstheseam

allowancethisway,unless

theblockrequiresyouto

press in a certain way.

QDrawthetemplatetwice,oncestraightandoncereflected.Be

suretomarkthereflectedversionsoyoucanidentify it easily,

for example, ‘Reversed’ or ‘Rev’ or just R.

QUsejustonestraighttemplate,butflipit overbeforeusingit to

mark and cut the fabric. Mark the reverse side to identify it.

QIf youareabletoprintthetemplate,useonlyoneregular

templatebutsetyourprintertoreverseit asit prints.Todo

this,whengivingthecommandtoprint,goto‘SetUp’,then

‘Preferences’.Youshouldfindan‘Option’ or ‘More Options’

that will allow you to ‘Mirror Image’.

Fig 10 Reversed templates

A

If onlyrotated180°,the

shape forms this pairing

B

Unit 1 Unit^1

rotated

Tomakethispair,Unit1 hasto

be reflected to produce Unit 2

C Unit 1 Unit 2

D

Toformthisblock,thebottom

shapesarea repeatofthe top

half, but rotated 180°

Fora templatemakinga 6in

block(6.5unfinished),enlarge

this template by 400%