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FEATURED PRODUCTS
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Here is a new service from Kate Flynn Nichols. You send Kate your own fabric and she will custom cut a quilt in your design to sew together yourself. Pre-cut kits save you time and fabric and feature "engineered" corners to make piecing easier.
She can cut any of the Acrylic Templates or Pre-Cut Kits in our catalog for you from your own fabric. She has also cut kits from customers' fabric and pattern kits; a big timesaver and very accurate! Call Kate at 800 745 3596 for details or email flynnquiltsupport@mcn.net
Customers say...
You do great work all of you. I hate to order a kit anywhere else because I like pre-cut. You do a terrific job with that. I will be in touch, I'm sure. Much success in the future, Jan
Kate's custom pre-cut kits are terrific. I've done three of them now. But, her special customer care is what really stands out. She handles orders very promptly, accurately and somehow her smile seems to also come through with the kits every time. Jon
LASER CUT PRE-CUT KITS The fabrics we use in the laser cut kits change frequently. As we run out of inventory, we find more fabric and it usually is a little different from the cutting before. (This is a lot of fun for us; buying fabric, what a pleasant job for three quilters!) Usually a sample of the current fabrics is next to the item in the catalog. We make a real effort to choose lights or brights and darks for the batik kits so you will have a quilt with lots of contrast when you are through piecing.
One more word about the pre-cut kits; be sure to wash your project in cold water (no soap after it is quilted. Sometimes we wash things twice and use Synthropal (or other dye capturing agent) in the second wash to make sure all the fugitive dye is captured.
6 Inch Wheel of Mystery 
Notice the notches on the Wheel of Mystery pieces as well as the engineered corners. This is a fun little project to piece. I saw one entered in our local quilt show and it was a knockout! Also note how the notches let you press the seams out in the middle of the block and in toward the edges. This gives you such a nice flat block; there are good piecing and pressing instructions included with the kit. Click here for the Pre-Cut Kit Section Pre-Cut Kits
News about the Cut-Your-Own Template Kit
Fiskars Shears
Things change and we don't sell the popular Cut-Your-Own Template Kit anymore. If you have taken a class from Sharyn Craig, or have one of her books, you will know that she really likes plastic laminate templates, especially for one-of-a-kind blocks.
The reason we can't sell the Cut-Your-Own Template Kits anymore is related to change too! Something in the way the laminate material is manufactured has changed and we can't depend on it being flat enough in the big 4'X 8’ sheets we buy to cut efficiently. For economics sake, we have to be able to use 100% of the material without any waste. So, things changed with the manufacturers, and we had to change, too.
But, if you still want to make your own templates, here is what to do. You need a good pair of utility shears. Then, look in the Yellow Pages to find a cabinet makers shop. They should have scraps of plastic laminate they are willing to sell you. Brand names don't matter; what you want to ask for is either “vertical grade laminate” or “post-forming laminate”. These are similar to, but thinner than, what we all used to have for kitchen/bath counter tops until granite got so popular! You need the thinner grade so you can cut it with your shears.
To cut a template shape, draw a cutting line, and make a rough cut around it with the shears. Don’t close the shears all the way until you are to the end of the cut. After you have the piece roughly cut out, do the final cut on your pencil line, slowly and let the template gently bend up over your hand if it is large. The waste will just fall away as you work, and remember not to close the shears all the way as you cut.
Double check the accuracy of your template with your original draft and, if it is a little big here and there, you can take a file and file the excess off. You have a couple of options for coating the back to make the templates a little sticky. Apply a very thin coat of rubber cement or some quilters use 505 Spray and Fix or similar adhesive. Double Stick tape also works as does Steam-A-Seam 2.
Click here to print these instructions Good luck with your projects!
