Fussy Cutters Club: A Boot Camp for Mastering Fabric Play-14 Projects

by Angie Wilson

Overview

Get the most out of your print and novelty fabrics with this guide to the technique of fussy cutting—with 14 easy quilting projects!

Angie Wilson is a master of cutting fabrics with intention, using prints and patterns to add humor, curiosity and unexpected detail to her quilts and textile crafts. With her tips and techniques, you will learn how to look at your stash with new eyes and piece together the best bits, like making a colorful collage of your favorite things.

Use templates to zero in on motifs and create secondary patterns from your fabrics, fussy cutting for color as well as design. Try your hand at 14 fun projects from traditional and improv piecing to English paper piecing and more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617454479
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	07/30/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	66 MB
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About the Author

Angie Wilson Bio: Angie Wilson strongly believes that everyone should make time and space for being creative. She has been a creative blogger since 2002 and can't imagine life without it. Angie lives in Canberra, Australia, with her very understanding husband and son. gnomeangel.com

Table of Contents

Introduction
Fussy Cutters Manifesto
First Rule of the Fussy Cutters Club
What is Fussy Cutting?
Learn the Basics to Master the Complex
The Projects in Fussy Cutters Club
Cloth Tales
Sidebar: Fabric 101
Selecting Fabrics for Fussy Cutting
Organizing Your Fabric Collection
Tools of the Trade
Tutorial: Seeing Secondary Patterns With a Hinged Mirror
Tutorial: Adding a Seam Allowance to Acrylic Templates
Tutorial: Making a Template with Template Plastic
Tutorial: Making a Laminate Template
How to be a Fussy Cutter
Traditional Fussy Cutting
Improvisational Fussy Cutting
Tutorial: How to Improvisational Fussy Cut
Fussy Cutting for Color
Sidebar: Bias and Grain for Fussy Cutters
Making the Cut
Tutorial: Fussy Cutting Without a Template
Tutorial: Fussy Cutting With an Acrylic Template
Tutorial: Fussy Cutting a Repeating Design
Basics of the Game
To Wash or Not to Wash
Machine Piecing
Tutorial: Accurate 1/4'' Seams
English Paper Piecing
Tutorial: English Paper Piecing
Quilt Finishing
Tutorial: Double-Fold Straight-Grain Binding
Tutorial: Adding Binding to a Quilt
Projects to Get You Hooked
Nine-Patch Potholder
Super Star Coasters
Hexy Pin Up Pincushion
1-2-Sucker Pouch
Fussy Designing: Improvisational Piecing
Improv-able Dream Pillow
Fussy Designing: Using Big Prints
Projects to Feed Your Appetite
Fabric Serenade Mini Quilt
Fussy Designing: Creating an Uninterrupted Look
A Flock of Seagulls Table Runner
Fussy Designing: Achieving a Rainbow
Gaggle of Geese Placemat
Fussy Designing: To Match Or Not To Match When Making a Set
Tote Amazeballs
Projects to Cement Your Love Affair
Rainbow I Spy Baby Quilt
We Are All Connected Mini Quilt
Inception Squared Quilt
Focal (On) Point Quilt
Crouching HST, Hidden Churn Dash
Resources
About the Author

Editorial Reviews

We're a bit excited to see this book written by our very own Angie Wilson (writer of The Hustle and our Social Media Manager). With an eye for colour, a love for rainbow, and an absolute addiction to fussy cutting, Angie's debut book does not disappoint. It's basically Angie on a page. Well, 138 pages. This book is jam packed with fun projects, hints and tips on fussy cutting, and colour. Loads of colour. More than just a project book, consider this your guide to fussy cutting. Have a stash of novelty prints you're not sure how to use? Angie shows you how to cut into them and work them into your projects and end up with a modern, fun result. Hints, tips, tools and techniques—this book will give you the confidence to join the Fussy Cutters Club and start fussy cutting like a pro. Projects range in size from pot holders and pouches to full-sized quilts. So whether you want to dip your toe into the fussy cutting waters, or go all out and make a quilt, Fussy Cutters Club has you covered. The hardest part may well be choosing which project you want to start with!

Issue 18 Make Modern

A whole book about fussy cutting fabric? You'd better believe it. Angie is a quiltmaker who delights in using the motifs and patterns printed on fabric to inject humour, boldness and a bit of the unexpected in her work. She knows how to elevate novelty fabrics from something used in children's quilts to components of sophisticated projects for adults. The opening chapters analyse the different kinds of print fabrics that lend themselves to fussy cutting, what to look for when you're buying fabrics and a variety of methods for cutting fabric to achieve particular visual effects. There follow instructions for 14 projects that extend your fussy cutting skills, from basic potholders and coasters through to full-size bed quilts for children and adults. If you've got an ever-growing stash, this book will help you look at it in a different way—and all sorts of new possibilities for using your fabric are likely to open up for you.

October 2017 Homespun

11/01/2017
Australian quilter Wilson, best known for the numerous quiltalongs that she leads on her blog, GnomeAngel.com, explores the use of fussy cutting in her first book. Fussy cutting can be used to highlight a specific section of a print or to create fascinating kaleidoscopic effects, and Wilson shows off both via a series of projects that use techniques popular in modern quilting, including improvisational piecing and English paper piecing. The projects are divided into three groupings based on the amount of time required to complete them. Wilson provides thorough guidance for each technique presented, and her tips for using templates are especially helpful. VERDICT Wilson's colorful projects will help quilters make good use of favorite focal prints from their fabric collections.

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