Quilter's Precut Companion: Handy Reference Guide + 25 Precut-Friendly Block Patterns

By Jenny Doan

Everything you need to know about making quilts with precuts Master precuts with this compete and indispensable guide to working with Charm Packs, Layer Cakes, Jelly Rolls, Turnovers, and more! Sew 25 traditional blocks from squares, half-square triangles, and precut strips with timesaving tips and tricks from the one and only Missouri Star Quilt Company. You’ll cover all the basics, including precut options, standard quilt sizes and needle types. Plus, finish your quilt like a pro with yardage and cutting info for borders, backings, and bindings! Easy-to-use charts, tables, and illustrations are at your fingertips in this handy, spiral-bound guide that’s easy to take with you. • All-in-one guide to precuts in a portable, spiral-bound reference that’s easy to take with you • Make 25 traditional quilt blocks from precut squares, strips, and triangles, with bonus info on easy half-square triangles • Time-saving tips and tricks plus easy-to-use charts with basic quilt sizes, and yardage for borders, backings, and bindings

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Oct 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781617452215

Jenny Doan

Jenny Doan is the smiling face of Missouri Star Quilt Company. Stitching together simplified quilts full of love and laughter, she makes quilting easier, more accessible, and friendlier than ever before. Watching her tutorials feels like coming home again. With over 750,000 YouTube subscribers and more than 225 million views to date, Jenny has sparked enthusiasm for quilting and warmed her viewer’s hearts across the globe. When she moved with her growing family to Missouri over 20 years ago, she never imagined that someday they’d have a successful quilting business. Like many small towns across America, employment was scarce, so in November 2008, on a modest budget, the Doan family bought a building in Hamilton and started Missouri Star Quilt Company. At first, they offered basic quilting supplies and machine quilting services, but business picked up when they started posting videos of Jenny teaching quilting tutorials online. From that time on her life changed forever.

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Let Me Tell You Why I Love Precuts

First, they’re pre-cut! How many hours do quilters spend cutting? By the time you’re done, you don’t even want to sew! One day a woman with severe arthritis came into my shop to buy precuts. I asked her how, with such gnarled hands, she was able to quilt. She replied, Oh, Honey, I’m not going to stop reading just because I can’t hold a book! She taught me that when you are passionate about something, you don’t stop doing it—you just find a way to make it easier.

When you walk into a fabric store, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. The thought of having to gather 40 different bolts of fabric with just the right color and print is too much to handle. I love that precuts are from one coordinating collection. It’s like having a designer standing beside you, telling you what to choose, turning hours of indecision into a process that takes only a few minutes. Then I’m always amazed when my finished quilt looks so much better than I ever could’ve imagined. So I have learned to trust the designers.

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