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Folded Corner Cutting Charts for EQ Blocks

11/30/2019

 
Included in this blog post:
  • Introducing Merry Christmas -- a new pattern by On Point Quilter
  • Free tutorial on creating Folded Corner Cutting Charts for Electric Quilt
  • ​Tech Know Quilters Virtual Quilt Show

Merry Christmas - New Pattern Release

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This tree skirt is sure to be a hit with everyone when celebrating Christmas.  Santa Claus, Northwoods Trees, Holiday Light and Starry Night blocks are all pieced using square and rectangle fabrics using a folded corner technique. No foundation piecing is required. 
 
Three sizes are included. 
Purchase for Introductory Price of $10 (regular $12)

How to Construct a Quilt Designed in Electric Quilt using Folded Corners

One question I am frequently asked is -- "How do I make a quilt that I designed in Electric Quilt?" 

There are many ways to approach piecing a block.  
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​I love working with folded corners as all the pieces are squares and rectangles.  No cut triangles are required when using this technique.

 I will share my suggestions for creating folded corner cutting charts for your Electric Quilt blocks.

What is a Folded Corner?

Back when I started quilting, I had a book from Mary Ellen Hopkins entitled "It's OK if you Sit on My Quilt Book".  In this book she introduced the quilting world to connector corners.  I think this may have been one of the techniques that revolutionized modern day quilting.  Over the years I have heard a number of names for the technique including "cheater corner" and "folded corner". ​
The technique refers to a method of adding triangles to a quilt block using only square or rectangle pieces of fabric.  It is frequently the suggested method for creating snowball blocks, square within a square units and flying geese units.  

Simple Folded Corner Construction

Draw a diagonal line on the wrong side of a folded corner piece from corner to corner. 
  1. Place on the corner of a base piece with right sides together. 
  2. Sew on the drawn diagonal.
  3. Press folded corner to corner.
  4. (Optional) - Trim back two pieces leaving 1/4" seam.
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Drafting Cutting Charts for Folded Corner Blocks

As you can see, piecing a folded corner block is super simple!

However when we design in Electric Quilt, EQ does not give us rotary cutting measurements that are conducive to using the folded corner technique.

My video tutorial will share with you how to create cutting charts that utilize the folded corner construction technique.  This technique works best for blocks with patches that are square or rectangle and have 45 degree angles.
Here are the rotary cutting charts from the quilt in the video.
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10" Snowball Block -- Folded Corner Cutting Chart
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3" Chevron Block - Folded Corner Cutting Chart
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10" Wild Goose Log Cabin - Folded Corner Cutting Chart
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Folded Goose Crossings Quilt - Designed in EQ8 by Kari Schell

October Apply What You Learned

Enjoy the virtual quilt show as Tech Know Quilter members shared what they learned during October.  If you would like to join the wait list for the next open enrollment for Tech Know Quilters, you may sign up here.
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Curryanne Hostetler
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Sabine Neuberger The first month is over and I have learned a lot from the various classes. Everything was explained so well and having the print out at hand made everything easy to follow. Thank you very much! I am very much looking forward to next months classes. I have the "Bee Inspired"-Collection from MODA fabrics in my stash and played with these fabrics for our class-quilt. This is how it turned out:
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Carolyn Block From the Quilting Designs class...Learned so much (but have much practicing to do in freehand drawing of feathers!!!)
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Nancy Messuri I challenged myself to work in Custom Set with a block from Modern Quilts 1. Placing the triangles in the corners was indeed a challenge. However, I achieve the look I was after.
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Camille Lechliter
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Camille Lechliter This was fun to design from Modern Blocks Lessons 6 & 7. It's eventually going to be a QOV.
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Nancy Messuri My challenge for this quilt was to see if I could get an optical illusion using triangles on the sides rather than squares as we did in Modern Quilts 1.
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Maureen Pinwell Final rendition of my Christmas Quilt for the October Challenge. These challenges are a blessing it really pressed me into thinking how I achieved the lessons and how much I was led by the Tutor. Practice makes perfect!
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Charlotte Quiroz Shoot for the Stars
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Judy Sawyer Took my Baptist Fan quilt design and quilted this quilt.
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Suzanne Golden Enjoyed the Applique class. Took what I learned in this session and some of the others to create a custom quilt.
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Donna C. I really enjoyed the TKQ Easy Draw class. I’ve been using EQ8 for years but you taught me so many shortcuts for creating blocks and really fueled my creativity. I’m looking forward to the medallion quilt classes now. This is an example of one of the quilts I created.
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Kristy Goodin Soard Challenge incorporated a few challenges. I wanted to use bees from two previous challenges as the basis of my quilt stencils. I had to import those blocks from previous projects (a first for me). Upon completing the imports, I garnered what I needed from the lessons this past month to modify those blocks to create two bee stencils. I also utilized one of Kari’s straight-line lessons in conjunction with the bees. This is designed to fit on one of Ackland’s metal tabletop quilt stands.
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Rhonda Goss
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Carole Fox While I was doing the Modern Quilt class, I saw some socks in a shop and they inspired me for the following quilt. The difficulty was to create the block with the connections in mind for the whole quilt.
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Tina Rohde Working with Fabric. I spent the last three days caring for my grandchildren (5, 7, and 10). They are home schooled and when they found out grammie had homework they were over joyed. They jumped right in encouraging me to finish it. My quilt became a collaborative project. I would show them the steps and they would have to try. By the time I had done everything three times over the process was cemented in my memory. This is our finished design. The pattern and colors are not what I would have picked but we all had fun. When mom and dad came home my five year old ran our to show them how to recolor blocks.
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Julie Pedersen The Quilting Designs/stencils class challenged me. I enjoyed it. Feathers challenge me as a Free-motion Quilter, so that lesson was especially challenging as well. Here is my whole cloth quilt.
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Cres Bookstein Fabric Lessons I had plenty of frustrations and this-is-driving-me-crazy rants, but I enjoyed playing with all of the fabric choices and moving around blocks once I got the hang of it. Dizzy is the result of using randomize with the choice of fabrics I had pulled.
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Cat Beckstead A Sampler from the Quilt Index redrafted in EQ.
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Cat Beckstead A Sampler from the Quilt Index. I drafted each of the blocks. No blocks from the block library. It was a learning experience.
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Suzanne Golden -- Hexagon Challenge Quilt Some of the blocks are from the class and other from 300 blocks.
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Marielle Schelling I'm designing a quilt for a nephew who really adores pokemon. Very simple blocks. using coloring pictures for the applique.
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Micheline Herzan Using Kari's Lesson 2 on Garden Maze I was able to draw Judy Martin's Kyoto Gardens quilt. This is a scrappy quilt so I will be able to use a lot of my stash reds, greens, golds, beiges, etc. etc.. This is a twin size quilt. I can hardly wait to start piecing it. Although I did not recolour each star uniquely, in my pieced version there will be a lot more shades of each colour. Love scrappy stars.
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Dorothee Ilgnerr I designed a version of this some time ago. a slightly different setting, but the same solutions. I fell in love with the design, and redrafted it as a miniature quilt. 26x31 inches.
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Carolyn Block This quilt I had seen on Connecting Threads and designed it in EQ as a gift for Christmas for a new granddaughter.
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Carolyn Block Completed quilt using the fabric collection Amberley by Brenda Riddle for Moda...picked out by my daughter.
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Kathy Autry I finished piecing the Dream BIg quilt that I'm making for a Christmas gift and happy to say it is now on my machine and being quilted.
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Micheline Herzan My October challenge was to finish a charity quilt for my guild. The guild gave me the 4 African panels and some scraps. I added my own fabrics to it. The filler block in between the panels is from the EQ8 library. I did a lot of free motion quilting on my domestic machine.

Tech Know Quilters Masters Challenge - Quilts Inspired by Your Favorite Quilting Tool

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Kristy Goodin Soard After much thought, I determined my favorite tool is my creativity. As a means to represent this in my quilting journey, I chose to include the sewing machine on a quilt of luscious red fabrics. My creative thoughts become reality through the use of gorgeous fabrics and machine stitching. I also took this opportunity to review the skills Kari has taught us about creating unusual borders.
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Kristy Goodin Soard with the blue Grunge fabrics by Moda.
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Shann Wheaton It is very true that it is difficult to choose just one tool that is the favorite. However for me the answer is the obvious one...EQ8! No, not 7 (that was too difficult to navigate) but EQ8 and Kari's university classes. I love being able to audition designs, colors and fabrics before going through the hard work of making the quilt and then later wish I would have made some changes. Or, that you can find a design you like but want to tweak it. Here is the very large Judy Neimeyer Diamond Wedding Star that I completed.
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Shann Wheaton Trying to replicate Judy's design is very difficult for me but i was able to get the general idea of where to use the fabrics and the overall look with the border.
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JoAnne Scharn I'm not sure what quilting tool would be my favorite, but as I do a lot of hand work (applique & quilting) I do know I could not live without my thimble. As I'm late posting this challenge, my "Thimble" quilt is quite simple. I included a block I could hand applique using the thimble as well.

Other October Projects

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Collien K.
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Maureen P.
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Helen H.
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Sharon O.
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Julie P.
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Joy H.
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Cres B.
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Barbara B.
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Nancy M.
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Holly W.
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Charlotte S.
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Micheline H.
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Cat B,
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Charlotte Q.
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Barbara B.
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Collien K.
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Nancy M. One Jacks
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Curryanne H.
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Barbara O.
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Judy H.
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Holly W.
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Linda S.
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Dorothee I.
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Maryanne C.
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Joy H.
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Dotty S.
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Pam V.
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Nancy M.
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Dena T.
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Janet I.
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Carol M.
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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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Pat A
12/1/2019 08:23:25 am

This was really helpful. I recently took a Tucker University class on the "Corner Pop" ruler and have an upcoming quilt I'd like to use it on. This post means I can work through the folded corner sizes so I can use the ruler.


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