{"id":1558,"date":"2011-12-07T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2011-12-15T02:04:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T06:04:55","slug":"one-block-wonder-design-preview-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"One Block Wonder – design preview tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

When creating One Block Wonder or Stack n’ Whack designs, there are clever\u00a0methods to preview your fabric motifs and see multiple repeats. I frequently use a set of hinged Quilter’s Design Mirrors<\/em> when designing with multiple cuts and repeats for projects such as Lone Stars, Quick Stars, Kaleidoscopes, Mariner’s Compass, hexagonal designs, etc.<\/p>\n

\"Quilter's<\/a><\/p>\n

A quick\u00a0method to determine whether a fabric will be suitable for your “fussy cut” technique is to lay the template shape (in this case, a 60-degree triangle\u2212sold in several sizes) on the printed fabric, and position the mirrors at one tip of the triangle.<\/p>\n

A repeated hexagon is magically created! The reflected\u00a0image is not exactly the way it will appear<\/em> when\u00a0physically cut, but does give you a good idea whether you’ll like the visual effect of that particular fabric before cutting. An unsuitable print won’t be exciting\u2212save that fabric for another project.<\/p>\n

\"Clearview<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are some examples of the same 60-degree triangles\u2212on the left, the mirror image and on the right, six identical cuts from the same image (also known as “fussy-cut”). Both versions are enticing! However, if your printed yardage doesn’t have mirror-image motifs, you will not be able to create the images on the left.<\/p>\n

The combinations below are the same triangles; each combination is\u00a0rotated to view\u00a0a different\u00a0tip in the design\u00a0center.<\/p>\n

\"Mirror<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Mirror<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Mirror<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When creating One Block Wonder or Stack n’ Whack designs, there are clever\u00a0methods to preview your fabric motifs and see multiple repeats. I frequently use a set of hinged Quilter’s Design Mirrors when designing with multiple cuts and repeats for projects such as Lone Stars, Quick Stars, Kaleidoscopes, Mariner’s Compass, hexagonal designs, etc. A quick\u00a0method […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,349,318,348,354,323,355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-henry","category-fabric-2","category-fabric-design","category-one-block-wonder","category-quilt-design","category-quilt-fabric","category-quilters-design-mirrors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}