Quilt planner: Bow Ties, turned
Start from a classic way to put blocks together, then make it yours: change the blocks, the colors and the layout, mix in prints, and choose how it's quilted. Every cut is listed, drawn in its color, and the finished quilt is weighed.
About the quilt planner
A block's first fabric takes the quilt's first color, its second the second, and so on, so two blocks set side by side share their colors and can join into chains and stars across the seams. Print noise swaps some of a color's fabrics for near shades and prints of it, the way a quilt sewn from a scrap basket looks. The quilting is laid over the top: stippling and meandering are drawn as one continuous line that never crosses itself, as they're stitched.
Sources
- R. C. Prim, Shortest Connection Networks and Some Generalizations, Bell System Technical Journal 36, 1957. Prim's algorithm in the maze maker is named for this paper. The quilt planner's stippling grows from the same method.
- Linda's Electric Quilters, Fabric Weight Guide for Quilting and Longarm Projects. The quilt planner weighs quilting cotton at 130 g per square meter, from this guide's range for it.
- Patched Works, Warm & White Batting, 90" wide. The quilt planner weighs cotton batting at 4 oz per square yard, as this listing gives for Warm & Natural.
- Hobbs Bonded Fibers, By The Yard Products. The quilt planner weighs polyester batting at 4.5 oz per running yard, 48" wide, from this table of batting by the yard.
- Wikipedia, Thread (textiles): Weight. The quilt planner weighs quilting thread from what a thread's weight number means: 50 wt is 50 km to the kilogram.