{"id":915,"date":"2013-03-22T22:39:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T22:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2013-03-30T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T21:33:00","slug":"lets-twist-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/22\/lets-twist-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s twist again like we did last Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>These two quilts are another mother and daughter effort, the first is mine using my favourite bright colours, with black. The second is my mother\u2019s, rich colours which tone beautifully together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-IMG_3319.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-904\" alt=\"Mulitcoloured Twister quilt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-IMG_3319-300x295.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-IMG_3319-300x295.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-IMG_3319.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The block is known as Twister, it looks rather complicated, and whilst it does take some planning and a large workspace is helpful it is actually fairly simple to achieve.<br \/>\nFirst task is to cut out squares and put them together in a grid bearing in mind that each square will tessellate with its neighbouring squares in the finished article, so each square should be sufficiently different from its neighbour to give the definition you want.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-IMG_3360.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-903\" alt=\"Mum's twister quilt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-IMG_3360-296x300.jpg\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-IMG_3360-296x300.jpg 296w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1-IMG_3360.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 85vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you have a grid maybe 20 percent larger than the finished article you plan, you take your scissors to it cutting it up using a template guide. At first it may seem that there is a profligate waste of fabric as you do cut to waste. A large bias square is cut from the centre of each square, I set these aside to use in the border. As each new square is cut diagonally from the fabric with the intersection of the squares as the centre of the new squares you cut, you should then rotate the square 90 degrees and set it back next to its neighbour. You will find they begin to tessellate; now you see why you need to have a large workspace, because you need to set out the entire quilt top, each piece placed by its neighbour, to get the placing correct.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-916\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/productimage-picture-lil-twister-pattern-and-template-696_jpg_800x600_q85-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-916\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.pinkchalkfabrics.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/productimage-picture-lil-twister-pattern-and-template-696_jpg_800x600_q85-3.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.pinkchalkfabrics.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You will have a collection of little bias cut squares left over, now it&#8217;s never a good idea to use bias cut fabric , bias cut edge to bias cut edge if you can avoid it,because both edges will stretch. If you cut the same size squares on straight grain, and join them alternately bias cut edge to straight grain edge, you can produce a string of coloured squares to use as a border, it will still stretch a little if you are not careful, but at least there will be no waste. I cannot bear waste.<\/p>\n<p>The first quilt I made in this pattern I can\u2019t find a photo of, probably because it was photographed long before I discovered digital photography, in fact it may have been made before digital photography existed.( Do you know how old that makes me feel?) It was a cot quilt made for a friend at the birth of her daughter, and was in pretty pinks and blues and on a very small scale, hand quilted in circles.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s never a good idea to use bias cut fabric , bias cut edge to bias cut edge if you can avoid it, but if you cut same size squares on straight grain, and<br \/>\njoin then alternately bias cut edge to straight grain edge, you can produce a string of coloured squares to use as a border,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,5,4,3],"tags":[190,968,967,115,116,191,944,10,942,186,188,966,189,192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}