The templates I’m giving way are by Elisa’s Backporch. I have cut up 28 fat quarters using the combination of the 7″ template and the 3.5″ template. Elisa includes a pattern with each of these templates (the 7″ template includes the pattern I’m using). If you have both templates, you have very little waste out of your fat quarters — that’s why I decided to give both templates to one winner, along with the little rotary cutter.
Elisa has a great little video on her site showing two methods of sewing these curves. One method uses only three pins (the method I used), and the other method uses NO pins! Elisa says these templates are addicting and she is right. I bought the 7″ one first, and the next day I drove the 10 miles or so to Quilt Cove to get the 3.5″! Whoever wins these is going to love them.
So, to get to my give-away post, go to the upper right column of my site and click on the monarch butterfly.
To get to Elisa’s videos, click here.
–Sue
thanks for the link to the videos. It’s interesting to see her no-pin method, because I learned to do these blocks without pins by watching Mary Ellen Hopkins on Simply Quilts — and she insisted that the “pie” piece had to be on the bottom instead of the top. I’ll have to try out this new method, now!
OK it looks soooo easy until I try to do it!!
I have one of those small rotary cutters and I love it. It is so perfect for curved cutting. Everyone should have one!