Best of 2010: Twister!

Twist and Shout!

If you have been to a quilt festival - large or small - you have probably seen this tool. The Twister is taking the quilt world by storm! We have had SO many ordered and had only wonderful feedback!

The Twister comes in 2 sizes - one is "charm" size and the other "layer cake" size. What is so neat is that when you use the large twister tool you end up with small pieces that can be used to make a second, smaller twister quilt!

Tips for this tool: 1. 

Use a design wall! If you get too happy cutting you may accidentally put a piece in the wrong order...and if you are like all of us at QBTB we try SO hard to avoid "unsewing!"

2. Be prepared to not be able to stop! This really is a fun quilt and it is so exciting to watch the twist pattern come to life!

Here is a fan picture we received - we shared this earlier this year but in case you missed it:

This is a great tool to use on some fabrics from your stash or to get a good deal check out our sale fabrics!

Happy Twistin'

QBTB

Best of 2010: Twister!

Easiest Quilt Ever!

This new tool is SO much fun!

You can literally finish a quilt in a day - so if you still have gifts to make for Christmas - you know, that person that is always begging you to make them a quilt - now you can! ...and it doesn't  look like it was as easy to make as it really is - it gives the illusion of a lot of piecing. 

What tool is it? The Twister! The basic concept is that you sew a bunch of squares together (charms or layer cakes are perfect) and add a border. Simple enough so far, right? Then you use the Twister tool to cut the pieces and rearrange them back into a quilt - so you have all these great little pinwheels but with zero of the hard piecing!

This Twister tool comes in small - perfect for the charm pack lovers - and large - perfect for the layer cake lovers! We really love both sizes - but what is so neat about the large size is that the "leftover" pieces make a second small sized quilt! ...so you can make one large quilt and use the smaller pieces for the border, a table runner or something fun!

Click HERE to view the page with the pattern book and both sizes of the Twister tool.

Want to see one almost done? We had a QBTB fan email us a pic of the quilt top she made with the large Twister tool - and she did all this in one morning! She used a stash of Christmas fabric she bought here at QBTB 2 years ago. (This goes to show that eventually we do use all of our stash!) She is going to add the border still so hopefully we will have a follow up picture soon!

How fun!

So if you order yours this week it will come at the beginning of Dec and you will have a weekend or two where you can crank out some lovely quilts as gifts! 

Happy Monday,

QBTB

Easiest Quilt Ever!