I guess the most recent "new" thing for me was a guild fun night several months ago...we made a Card Trick table runner using a Quilt in A Day book. I have to say, I didn't much care for the QIAD technique. For some reason you cut squares and rectangles too big (like 1/2" too big) then trimmed them down. Also, instead of cutting & sewing triangles, they have you use squares or rectangles then cut the corners off. It seemed very wasteful to me.

I took a machine trapunto class about 18 months ago. I enjoyed it and will use the technique again.

Donna

It is not new to me, but the latest quilt I finished, the manly plaid quilt, was another project made by the nickel squares (5' squares) method. And the next commissioned quilt will also be a Nickel Quilt. This makes about 5 or 6 quilts I have made using Pat Speth's books and techniques. The more I make, the more I am a big fan of Nickel Quilts!

the Ozark Maple Leaf Nickel Quilt I made:

Here is a link that might be useful: Pat Speth's web site

New to me this year - Presidential redwork embroidery (once I have enough presidents completed, it will become a quilt or wall hanging) and techniques using the X-Block Ruler. I really love using the X-Block Ruler because of the versitility of patterns and designs.

I almost have everything I need for the Dear Jane quilt (waiting on CD for patterns), but looking at the instructions, I will have plenty of new techniques to learn. CD is supposed to be here Friday! I can't wait!!

Robbi

Teresa, I love your maple leaf quilt!

Teresa I love the quilt!!! I have Pat's books and I have become a big fan of the nickel quilts. I have the twister pattern from an older book and I was surprised that it is so popular now. I have never tried it because of the waste, but now I love scrappy so I can turn the scraps into something lol!!!
I tried machine trapunto and I want to make some pillows. The way I was taught was by hand and you 'stuffed' the design with yarn. It was a slow process but gorgeous!
The other technique is redwork, I bought the thread over a year ago and something else always comes up.
Rosa

I got Paula Nadelstern's Kaleidoscope Quilts book about a year and a half ago. She has detailed instructions on how to make her method with template piecing. I find this method very freeing and a major springboard to creativity. It is very tedious, though.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{!gwi}}

A technique that I used today that isn't exactly new as I have started doing its a few weeks ago is when I need to be exact on meeting points, as in partial seams, I mark all the corners or points with an awl prick that seperates the treads a little. It is easier to see and match then pencil or pin markings. I still match with pinning pc. togeather. I also make my templates from tracing onto freezer paper and ironing the templates to the fabric.
Teresa, your quilt is lovily. I like the way you quilt it. I have Pat Speth's book "More Nickle Quilts" but haven't made any yet. Strange as I got the book out Sun. and have been looking thru it.

My newest technique is using the Twister tool. I first used it in March and have more ideas to use with the other size tools. I bought the two smallest sizes but haven't had time to try them this summer.
Linda OH

Here is a link that might be useful: twister quilts

This year I've tried two new techniques.

The first was using folded fabric with both squares and triangles
squares-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbTHlGGKMPM
triangles-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Mu0C_QL8Y

The second was turning charms on-point that Sharon shared-
http://piecefullife-elizabeth.blogspot.com/2010/09/turning-charms-on-point.html

Teresa, Love your leaves!!

Guess I need to break down and get a Nickles book of some sort. I have the 9-patch Pizzazz...even have the fabric I want to use. Just haven't started the process, but that is a design I really want to try. Too many quilts need to be completed at my house......

SharonG/FL

My latest is a set of rulers - Tri Recs rulers. I don't normally recommend specialty rulers, because the few I have sit around unused. But these really work, and work well.

They are for putting an isosceles triangle into a square, or making a divided rectangle. Difficult to describe, marvelously easy to do with the two rulers. It's all in the "magic angle", which blunts a corner, making it ever so easy to line the pieces up.

I'll post post a link, but it's available all sorts of places, including Amazon.com.

Here is a link that might be useful: Tri Recs Rulers