Great Women Building a Gracious World

                                                                                                                                            Volume 2, Issue 2

                                                                                                                       March/April 2007

                                                                                                                                                                              

Blue Girl (German Cross Angora), by Leslie Shelor
 

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March/April Contributing Writers

Abigail, Sandra Bennett, Grace Hatton, Veryl Ann Grace, Marlene P. Gruetter, Catherine Hollingsworth, Prudence Mapstone, Maile Mauch, Michele Rathe, Bobbie Ripperger,  Leslie Shelor, Monika Steinbauer, Judith Taylor,  

 

 

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Favorite Fiber of the Moment

Fat Quarters!

 

 

For a person who hasn't even dusted her sewing machine in decades, much less actually used it, quilting is full of strange and fairly exotic sounding terms. Take for instance, Fat Quarters. The mind's eye positively dances with the image and all sorts of eye candy are made available to the little gray cells. It's fairly simple really...fat quarters are just one half yard of fabric, 18 x 44 inches, cut it in half to make 18 x 22...viola! a Fat Quarter.
 
This is what makes Tricia's Turning Twenty quilt so perfect. It takes a Fat Quarter and maximizes the fabric usage while minimizing waste. As any quilter/sewer knows, fabric waste is something to cry over if not downright avoid.
 
I think I need help...I had to go to a mart store for groceries and, very
casually, passed by the fabric department. OH MY! Thirty minutes later the clerk is cutting fabric for yet another Turning Twenty quilt. I've heard of Fiberholics Anonymous; do you think there's a Quilter's Anonymous?