Your demonstration shows how a little advance prep (trimming corners) can provide an excellent visual aid in alignment for perfect piecing. I use a 90 degree trimmer on another brand that I have to trim one corner of a square for the LeMoyne Star inset. Of course, not needed if you are trimming the outside and not upsizing the insets (square/triangle). I need a little more forgiveness in this block, so I upsize my cuts by 1/4 inch. That requires working from the inset out (v. lining out first). It helps me make perfect blocks.
I love Judy Martin's books and have made several of her quilts. I bought the point trimmer, but have never really mastered it. I did not find this tutorial as helpful as I had hoped it would be. Nor were the included directions helpful! Now what I have started doing is to make for each quilt a template from template plastic and use it. Most template patterns in Judy's and other's books show on the templates at the back of the book how the points ought to be trimmed. So I mark the template and trim off the points. Then after rotary cutting the triangles, I lay my just-made point trimmer on top of them and trim off their points. It does make aligning triangles with, for example, squares much easier and more accurate. I agree about the distracting background music, incidentally!
Thanks for making the video Judy. I have been using your trimmer and love it but was not sure if I was really using it right. Now I better understand what is happening when I use C!
I've owned this ruler for a very long time and finally pulled it out and tried to use it and even with this tutorial it just doesn't make sense to me at all. When I first bought it I thought you just needed to use the trimmed corners of the template to whack off a 1/4" tip of the triangle.
Suggestion: You need to demonstrate the pointer and not just showing us the pieces you did. I still don't know how to use the pointer. You need to show how to use C. There should be some instructions to show the uses of A ,B, and C along with the pointer.
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Your demonstration shows how a little advance prep (trimming corners)
can provide an excellent visual aid in alignment for perfect piecing. I use a 90 degree trimmer on another brand that I have to trim one corner of a square for the LeMoyne Star inset. Of course, not needed if you are trimming the outside and not upsizing the insets (square/triangle). I need a little more forgiveness in this block, so I upsize my cuts by 1/4 inch. That requires working from the inset out (v. lining out first). It helps me make perfect blocks.
I love Judy Martin's books and have made several of her quilts. I bought the point trimmer, but have never really mastered it. I did not find this tutorial as helpful as I had hoped it would be. Nor were the included directions helpful! Now what I have started doing is to make for each quilt a template from template plastic and use it. Most template patterns in Judy's and other's books show on the templates at the back of the book how the points ought to be trimmed. So I mark the template and trim off the points. Then after rotary cutting the triangles, I lay my just-made point trimmer on top of them and trim off their points. It does make aligning triangles with, for example, squares much easier and more accurate. I agree about the distracting background music, incidentally!
Thanks for making the video Judy. I have been using your trimmer and love it but was not sure if I was really using it right. Now I better understand what is happening when I use C!
I've owned this ruler for a very long time and finally pulled it out and tried to use it and even with this tutorial it just doesn't make sense to me at all. When I first bought it I thought you just needed to use the trimmed corners of the template to whack off a 1/4" tip of the triangle.
where can I order this tool from ? Also , I live in Canada , in case it makes a difference :) Thanks
Confusing
What???
Your background music makes it hard to concentrate on the video.
Suggestion: You need to demonstrate the pointer and not just showing us the pieces you did. I still don't know how to use the pointer. You need to show how to use C. There should be some instructions to show the uses of A ,B, and C along with the pointer.