Stripology Tutorials

 

It's been awhile since I've done a post.  This one is for anyone who has a Stripology Ruler, anyone considering getting one and also anyone who isn't convinced that one of these rulers won't make much of a difference in the chore of cutting.

My ruler is not the latest edition and some of the features are missing, but once I got more comfortable with inserting the cutter blade in the slot I didn't need anything to convince me that this cutting tool was going to reduce my cutting time to about 1/3 of what it used to be.  My ruler was given to me so I didn't have to spend $100 plus for it.  You never could have convinced me any ruler was worth that much money until I actually started using it.

Recently, in my Virtual Quilting Group one of the members asked if anyone had one and could recommend it and there were quite a few people there who weighed in with glowing reviews.  One of the women suggested watching the three tutorials by Gudrun Erla, the developer of the ruler.  They're a good place to start if you are a new Stripology user or are wondering how exactly they can save you so much cutting time.  If you've had your ruler for awhile you will probably learn some new ways to use your ruler, for example, cutting triangles.  I saw a lot more videos on Youtube which I didn't get  chance to watch, like cutting bias strips.  It seems like people have learned a lot of cutting tricks with these and have shared them on Youtube.

Here is the Stripology 101 video.

Here is Part 2 of Stripology 101

Here is Part 3 on Stripology Squared ruler for squaring off blocks and fussy cutting

Here is Video #4 on How to cut extra long fabric and squaring off oversized blocks

Colleen's Post re Eight Pointed Star Quilt

This is the other quilt I received and passed along to Dianne. We placed an additional label on showing that I passed the quilts to Dianne and the date. 

CD.

Colleen's Post re Vintage Quilts

Nancy wrote on the blog about Dianne’s presentation at FVQG meeting last week.  

The quilt she mentioned, that I gave Dianne, is a Redwork quilt and it, along with another quilt made by the same lady and that I also gave to Dianne, has an interesting history.  I will try to find a better picture of the quilt, as this one doesn’t show the quilting and fabric as well as it should.  I have to go back in my old iPhoto to find a better picture.

Here is the story of how I came into possession of the quilts.

One day in 2003 I received a phone call from a friend who volunteered in the thrift shop at South Burnaby United Church on Grey Avenue.  Someone had dropped off two quilts and the staff knew that I was a quilter and thought I should see them.  They were given to me and the only hint I had was the name "Mary 1928" in the corner of the Redwork quilt.  The second quilt didn't have any information.  No one in the thrift shop knew who had dropped the quilts off.  I asked the secretary in the church if a note could be put in the Sunday Bulletin asking if the person who dropped them off could contact me.  A few days later I received a call from Ida Cooper.  She game me the information about her aunt, Mary Bolton, that I put on the label.  Ida was downsizing and didn't want to keep the quilts and no one in her family wanted them.

Dianne says hello and sends hugs!

 On Tuesday at guild, Dianne was our speaker. She gave a great talk that included a bit of history and an update on what she is currently working on. She mentioned Colleen and showed a slide one of the quilts Colleen gave her and was part of her presentation. Her two new pieces with the Northern lights were beautiful. Her IT guy (Bruce) was there too, so nice to say hi to him too.

I gave Dianne the two photos of her teaching back in the Quilters' Haven days. Her first comment was she remembered the denim dress and said it was one of her favourites. 

She sends greetings and hugs to you all!