{"id":45652,"date":"2019-04-13T07:01:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T14:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=45652"},"modified":"2019-04-10T17:43:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T00:43:40","slug":"2019-cutting-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/2019-cutting-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Cutting Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, it has been awhile since I showed my cutting chart. It is something I meant to do in January, but it never seemed to get done. The same thing happened last year, so it has still been a year, which is my actual goal. Once a year.<\/p>\n

\"2019<\/a>
2019 Cutting Chart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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  1. Spin Wheel<\/a> – 3.5×4.5 rectangle – all fabrics except background fabrics<\/li>\n
  2. Blue Lemonade<\/a> – 2×2 square – blue, green and purple<\/li>\n
  3. 30 Something<\/a> – 2.5 x 4.5 rectangle – foreground and background<\/li>\n
  4. 30 Something -1.5 x 2.5 rectangle<\/li>\n
  5. 30 Something – 2 7\/8 x2 7\/8 square<\/li>\n
  6. 30 Something – 1.5 x 1.5 square. I also cut one of these for a friend and send those off when I have a chance.<\/li>\n
  7. 2.5″ squares for different projects. One square is for the 16 patch donation<\/a> blocks, one is on spec and one is for FOTY 2019<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. 5″ squares – no particular project, but I thought it might be a good idea to start storing some up for a future project. The impetus was that DH got me a 5″ square keeper for my birthday<\/a>. That’s as good a reason as any, right?<\/li>\n
  9. Half Hexie Stars<\/a> – 3.5 x 12.5 rectangle<\/li>\n
  10. Blue Gradation quilt – 2.5 x 4.5 rectangle – this has been on the Dream Projects list<\/a> since at least 2014. It might be time to put up or shutup.<\/li>\n
  11. Pink Gradation quilt – 2.5 x 4.5 rectangle –<\/li>\n
  12. – this has been on the Dream Projects list<\/a> since at least 2014. It also might be time for me to put up or shutup about this project. I am not sure how many gradation type projects I can do in a row.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As you know, one of the major aspects to my quiltmaking is hunting and gathering. I prefer to make quilts, usually, that use a lot of fabrics. I think many different aquas will be more interesting than just one. This means that many projects, I need to cut a lot of patches from a wide variety of fabrics. It doesn\u2019t work for me to decide to start such a project, open up a fabric bin and start cutting. I don\u2019t want to always stand that long, I get bored and the whole situation results in me hating the project or just stopping about halfway through. Also, if I use that strategy, I get tend to have too many of one color and not enough of others. None of this is good for my stress level and definitely not they way I want my quiltmaking to be.<\/p>\n

    My system, which I have explained in similar terms before<\/a>, is that once a project is in my queue, I decide if it requires a ton of cutting. If it does, I can figure out what kind of cutting I need to do (coordinated fabrics or scrappy fabrics as well as size). Either requirement can work with my system. Then I put the shape and color on my list, which I keep the list near my cutting table.\u00a0 When I have a new piece of washed and ironed fabric I have a good list of exactly what to cut.<\/p>\n

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    Also, I don\u2019t know of another way to really randomize this type of fabric selection. Cutting from fabrics I buy new or pull out to use seems like as good a way as any. Also, as an added bonus, I use fabrics that I like right now -> immediately.<\/p>\n

    Another problem I had was that I would take fabrics out of bins and find that NOTHING would be cut from them. Not one square. Shameful! This problem was alleviated by the Fabric of the Year<\/a> project. You can read about the beginnings of that project for me in a post from 2008<\/a>. Using this method for cutting started the solution to my Hunting and Gathering.<\/p>\n

    As I got use to cutting one shape, the Fabric of the Year shape, out of new fabrics, it became easier to cut more than one shape. I thought it was a good idea and it became easier to use this new system to make progress on projects I was not yet ready to start sewing. Pretty soon I was up to the number of pieces I am cutting now. And the stacks of those pieces were piling up.<\/p>\n

    I also found that the fabrics became less precious. I started not to save them for a better project. This meant that fabrics that I loved RIGHT NOW were in a project RIGHT NOW.\u00a0 I also found out, which I have talked about in terms of the FOTY projects, which fabrics were going to work for other projects. I could go and buy more before it was 3 years later and too late to buy more.<\/p>\n

    Now, there are many fewer fabrics that not been cut into. When I buy fat quarters, there is not much of them left after all this cutting.<\/p>\n

    One of the great things about cutting pieces from new fabrics is that it is a great warm-up. Sometimes when I need to get started, pressing fabric and cutting new pieces from new fabrics is a good way to get started. If I have 10 minutes, I can cut, feel like I made progress and got a little stress relief in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Once again, it has been awhile since I showed my cutting chart. It is something I meant to do in January, but it never seemed to get done. The same thing happened last year, so it has still been a year, which is my actual goal. Once a year. Spin Wheel – 3.5×4.5 rectangle – … Continue reading “2019 Cutting Chart”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[477],"tags":[364,329,252],"class_list":["post-45652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-hunting-gathering","tag-organization","tag-project-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}