EZ Dresden Wedge Quilt Squares and Triangles. Welcome to yet another wonderful stop on the EZ Dresden Challenge blog hopThe Salt Lake Modern Quilt Guild has paired up with Simplicity to celebrate Darlene Zimmermans 2. EZ Quilting by hosting and sponsoring the EZ Dresden Challenge. To see more details about this challenge, and to see the list of prizes, be sure the visit the EZ Dresden Challenge page of the SLMQG Blog. They will be donated by these awesome sponsors My name is Tanya, and I am going to show you a fun way to use the EZ Dresden Ruler for this paper pieced quilt. Ive seen this quilt design, or some variation of it, floating around blog land, and I LOVE IT. But, I am not a big fan of using up a lot of paper printing off templates. I have been trying to figure out how to make this quilt without having to use up a lot of fresh paper, and then Darlene Zimmermans EZ Dresden Ruler fell into my lap. This was my ticket to making my own template using scrap paper. After making many paper pieced quilts with scrap paper, I have found that some printer or photocopy ink melts under the heat of the iron. Also, hot irons and scrap paper with crayon dont mix. Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt Pattern Black White' title='Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt Pattern Black White' />I started this blog for me it expanded to show BFF Jackie what I was doing and a few others have invited themselves too everybody welcomeThis Disappearing Nine Patch quilt block is made from neutral fabrics that are mostly a combination of black, gray and beige. The blocks light center square results. C3%A9-quilts-patchwork-quilt.jpg' alt='Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt Pattern Black White' title='Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt Pattern Black White' />Or rather, they do mix, in a bad way. And, while I do find that newspapers and phone books provide plenty of paper and are easy to rip, Ive had problems with the paper being too weak, and the ink rubbing off onto my fingers and fabric. Recently, though, I have found a source of scrap paper that I love to use. Do you receive the Money Mailer envelopes in your mailbox with a ton of advertisements 5. Well, let me show you what you can do with them. Preparing your template squares First, throw out the small advertisements and glossy advertisements. Nod32 2 7 39 Crack Keygen Autocad. Then, cut your 5. If you dont have the mailers, then regular 8. For a baby quilt 4. For a twin quilt 7. Preparing your EZ Dresden Ruler  Grab a strip of tape as long or longer than your dresden ruler. Draw a straight line from end to end. This line does not need to be in the center of your tape. Place your dresden ruler on your cutting mat and find the center. Place your tape line on top of the center line. Here is your ruler with a midline. Drawing your Template Place your ruler above the template squares, making sure the bottom of the ruler rests on the bottom corner, and the midline goes from corner to opposite corner. Draw on either side of the EZ Dresden ruler. You now how your template drawn. These lines are not the lines you will use to sew. Rather, they are fabric placement lines. Preparing your fabric Cutting the wedges are pretty easy. Cut strips of fabric 8 inches tall and at least 3. Then, using the dresden wedge, cut along either side of ruler. If you use really long strips of fabric, you can just flip your dresden ruler and cut your next wedge going the opposite direction. I will be using Kona Snow for my background fabric. Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt Pattern Black White' title='Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt Pattern Black White' />For every template square you plan on using, cut out one 4. I made 8. 0 squares, so I will need to prepare 8. Since this is a solid with no marked front side or back side, I can cut these rectangles into triangles all in the same direction. If you are planning on using a patterned fabric for the background, plan on cutting half of your rectangles into triangles with the cut going from top right to bottom left, and the other half with the cut going from top left to bottom right. See image below. Constructing your blocks Grab a handy glue stick, and glue the dresden wedge on each template square within the fabric placement lines. Place one of the background triangles, right sides together, on to one edge of the wedge. Before you sew, make sure the long side hypotenuse is the one aligned with the side of wedge, the thicker side of the triangle is up by the fat end of the wedge, and the smaller angle of the triangle is down by the skinny edge of the wedge. Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt Pattern Black White' title='Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt Pattern Black White' />Set your sewing machine to a stitch length to about 1. The smaller the stitch length, the easier the paper will be to tear away. Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt Pattern Black White' title='Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt Pattern Black White' />Four Pumpkins wall quilt, 29square, free pattern by Cheryl Haynes for Benartex PDF downloadAuthor Quilt Inspirationhttpswww. IDSERP,5179. 1How to Make a Scrap Quilt Like a Pro The SpruceLearn how to make a scrap quilt with my scrap quilting tips and techniques. Follow a few important guidelines to make a quilt you love. Stumped Afraid youll wreck your quilt The solution is a click away Find help and support in our Quilting Forum. Love the quilt and youve done a great job on the tutorial. Adorable baby boy I started making quilts for my little boy and I just looked up and my baby is. This quilt was using the EZ dresden wedge and scrap paper for a sharp and modern design. Make your own using this tutorial. Home Current Health Articles Causes of Left Side Abdominal Stomach Pain Causes of Left Side Abdominal Stomach Pain. Posted by Jan Modric. Anthony the Mooch Scaramucci may have lasted just 10 days in the White House before getting booted, but America hasnt gotten rid of him. The widely ridiculed. Sew 14 inch away from the edge of the fabric. With the first background triangle flipped out of the way, align the next background triangle on top of the other side of the wedge, right sides of the fabric together. Sew 14 inch away from fabric edge. Now, press the triangles to either side. Trim the edges, using the paper template as your guide. Now, your block should be 5. Your blocks are completeArrange them as you want, and sew them into rows. I personally like to sew my squares into rows first, and then remove the paper. However, you can remove the paper first and then sew the squares into rows. Press the seams however you want them I pressed mine open and then sew the rows together. Press with the iron again, and you are done You have a crisp looking paper pieced quilt, and you only used paper that was on its way to the garbage anywayHere is the finished quilt. I quilted my quilt with a free motion loopy design, and then I bound it with Kona Raffia. But, in honor of the challenge itself, I had to add one more thing to this quilt. It needed a traditional dresden plate for the back. Hand applique and all. Edited to add have since made two more quilts using this tutorial. You can see them here and here. Would you like to win a free ruler to begin your own Dresden Quilt Leave me a comment on this post telling me your summer vacation quilting plans. Im in the process of making orange peel templates in hopes to make my first hand appliqued quilt. Id love to hear what  you are up to this summer. Comments will be open until Friday, June 8 MST, and then I will announce a winner on Friday, June 9th. Good luck everyone Remember to link up your final projects in September on the SLMQG. I cant wait to see themBe sure to visit other blogs during the EZ Dresden Ruler Blog Hop. June 1. Salt Lake MQG Kick Off www. June 2. Lee freshlypieced. June 3. Kati www. June 4. Victoria bumblebeansinc. Tanya www. squaresandtriangles. June 5. Val howaboutpinkplease. Leigh leedledeedlequilts. June 6. Amy amyscreativeside. Elisa www. stitchoutsidetheditch. June 7. Katie www. Emily emsscrapbag. June 8. Melissa happyquiltingmelissa. Brooke pitterputterstitch. June 9. Nicole mamalovequilts. Amy sukie. mt wudan. June 1. 0Elizabeth www. Colleen www. thebusybean. June 1. 1Faith www. Deonn quiltscapesquilting. June 1. 2Angela angelaflicker. Barbie thequiltingmill. June 1. 3Amy www. June 1. 4Jessica sewcraftyjess. June 1. 5Salt Lake MQG Wrap up www. This TV Backlighting System Fucked Me Up. This is opulence. Suddenly, there is extra light blasting from behind my TV screen, making a day glow title sequence positively atomic. The Dream. Screen, a backlighting system thats designed to make your TV viewing more immersive, is a luxury that I absolutely dont need. In theory, the supplementary lights change color based on the pixels on the TV screen for an immersive theater experience. In practice, its an overstimulating, distracting, nauseating novelty, and I cant get enough of this shit. Dreamscreen. What is it A group of LEDs on the back of a television that make viewing more immersive. Like. Those lights are very pretty. No Like. It can be really distracting and there are a lot of wires. Im a fan of the Phillips Hue wireless LED lights, and find the ability to change the color of my room with my phone delightful. Dream. Screen, loosely based on the original Philips Hue adjacent Ambilux television, works in the same vein, so I was keen on it. I do a lot of stupid things to entertain myself, like acquiring a 5. Samsung television with a gimmicky curved display. Dream. Screen seemed like an upgrade. I was naive. I didnt realize how much I could loathe and love one product. Depending on what kind of TV you have, the kit costs between 1. HD or 4. K, and the size of your screen. The setup is a small feat in and of itself. There are chunky LED light strips to tape to the back of a TV, differently spaced depending on the size of your tv theres a guide. Theres a smartphone app that works with your wi fi to download and set up. Then you need to plug your video source into the video input of the round HDMI splitter, and plug the output into your TV. There are also two optional sidekick lights for extra glow 6. This thing takes up three fucking outlets. Get ready for a wire rat king. You do get the bigger, brighter TV the products website promises, but the lights dont exactly extend the screen space they sometimes echo, and sometimes compliment the colors of pixels around the very edges of your screen, sending rays of color from behind your television across your walls in time with whatever is on. In the case of a dramatic explosion, this is all very sensible, as a good part of your wall will look onfire. It really shines with material intended to be trippylike whatever the hell that was in episode eight of Twin Peaks The Return above, or that psychedelic 2. A Space Odyssey sequence. The more you give itpink and blue neons, deep redsthe more you get. Driver Sound Intel 82801Fb Ich6 there. But it can be confounding in undramatic sequences, with bright blurry bits of clothes and other immovable objects echoing off screen, like dislocated fuzzy chunks. Daylight and black and white sequences result in a bright bluish white screen halo. Letterboxing also presents an obvious, chasmic problemgaps. I want to emphasize the visual loudness of this thing. Even at the lowest brightness, without the two sidekicks, the Dream. Screen is really bright. I like to watch movies in complete darkness and concentrate on the screen. With the Dream. Screen, the entire room is illuminated, including the dirty laundry in the far corner that Im trying to ignore. Say youre the type of person with serious respect for cinematography. The screen bleeding out of the frame in blurry puddles every which way might not be what the cinematographer intended. Despite and because of its flaws, this truly is an accessory of visual excess. Theres also the products weird health benefits claim that it reduces digital eye strain. The claim cites a single 2. TV not hurt your eyes so much. But the study also says that these results are modest and sometimes even the opposite. Speaking from personal experience, staring into a significantly brighter TV area is the oppositemy eyes ache after a while. So I wouldnt take this study very seriously. Postal 2 Apocalypse Weekend Urinate Patch there. Where Dream. Screen really shines is gaming. I sit closer to the TV while I game and my focus is more sharply drawn to specific sections of the screen. This position allows the peripheral edges of the game space to blend with the Dream. Screen light extensions and Im significantly more immersed, just as Dream. Screen wanted. When Im not watching the entire screen, the patchiness of Dream. Screens illumination isnt a big deal. Its also more dynamic because more is happening faster, so its swishing around me. Thats neat. For most everything else, its immersive, but kind of like watching TV wasted is immersive. Youre going to get pulled into the light. Youll want to squint. Your eyes might skid. You might ask yourself, do I really need to do this Am I enjoying it Why am I doing thisExcess and novelty are perfectly good reasons to try something. Getting overwhelmed and bored is a great reason to stop. Until then, the trick is getting used to something completely unnecessary. Awhile back, I saw Wonder Woman in 4. DX, which is extra 3. D, with moving theater seats and effects. For two hours in the theater the seat jostled me back and forth and gently spit water into my hair. It was completely unnecessary. But now I wonder, how am I supposed to watch another movie again without steamy, bumpy smell o vision I wasnt even sure I liked 4. DX, but Im going back, obviously. Maybe I want to be thrown around. Maybe Ill always want a bigger, brighter TV. Maybe I want to be perpetually overstimulated by entertainment technology. Maybe I want bright lights strapped to the back of my TV, for extra explosions. Nothing in life is perfect. A lot of the things arent even good. I think this thing is bad, but also good. No one really needs it, but its awfully easy to get used to. When I dont use the lights, I miss them. Sometimes Ill even put them on the ambient setting when Im doing something else. Like rainbow. Or fireplace. Twinkling in the background. Completely fucking with my head. READMEIt takes up to three outlets. Its really bright and dramatic. Best for really bright and dramatic sequences in movies and games. Great for gaming and explosions, not so much for movies you respect. How much youll like it really depends on your definition of immersive. Easy to hate, hard to leave.