Pre-cut What?

What might be the hardest thing in getting started?  You know the old saying in love and life 'the first cut is the deepest'.  While that might have different meanings to many, to me it means that because of my love of fabric,  the first cut is the hardest. i.e. cutting into a yard of fabric is much harder than cutting a five inch block in half.  Don't you agree?  So for the January QGA program,  Diane Redfearn, decided to de-mystify pre-cuts by showing how to easily use them in making our forever favorite quilt. 

Here's her program promo tease to jump start our being involved.....

Using Pre-cuts

We seem to collect pre-cuts and then don’t know

what to do with them!! We hope to give you some

ideas and useful suggestions. “

” and earn a Merit Badge!

Bring something you have made from a pre-cut to

show as inspiration. If you don’t have the quilt—

then bring a pattern suggestion and tell us about it!

Diane's trunk show of sampler quilts made from pre-cuts got rave reviews from the audience:

 

Pre-cuts come in several shapes.  Moda put them in our face with their now famous jelly roll.  Next came the charm pack, mini charms and layer cake.  Need I tell you that a jelly roll is a combination of fabrics from a line of fabrics cut into 2 1/2" strips and beautifully rolled and packaged.  Or that a charm pack is a bundle of 5" squares and that a layer cake bundles 10" fabrics together, oh, my!

Now, as Diane asks us.....we have them all in our stash, what can we do with them?   Thanks to her adventuresome self and her internet search, Diane gives us easy access to numerous patterns and video tutorials through Moda Cutting Table (spotlight on the Cake Mix Recipes ).  How delicious is the  "Marzipan" by Amanda of Jedi Craft Girl

Villa Rosa Designs who has put together the most delightful Rose Cards....a card for each of the shops' patterns.  Oh, how fun?

 and Missouri Star....where Jenny tells us to go ahead and skip to the good part...cutting out those hours of cutting....just go for the pre-cuts.   I'm lovin' her attitude and her pages of 836 pre-cut project patterns. 

Thank you Diane for your most interesting and informative program to maximize our quilting time and energy by using simple  PRE-CUTS.