Smart Techniques for Working With Wedges

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Master essential wedge techniques to create Dresden plate blocks, gorgeous borders and your most dynamic quilts yet!

Wedge Basics

Meet your instructor, quilt designer and author Debbie Caffrey. Debbie explains the role wedges play in quilts and shows you how to use a variety of wedge rulers for easy cutting. Then, she’ll walk you through basic calculations for perfect wedge measurements, and help you use a paper template to cut with a straight edge.

Wedge Borders

Get started with wedge piecing by sewing easy wedge borders. Then, take it a step further as Debbie shows you sub-cutting methods to create more complex variations. You’ll also learn Debbie’s tips for measuring borders and managing corners for great results.

Wedges With Points

Find out how to make perfect points for your wedges and pickets using Debbie’s tried-and-true chain-piecing technique. Join the pointed pieces with precision, and discover an innovative way to give each point eye-catching dimension.

Wedges With Curves

Follow along with Debbie to to join your straight-edge wedges and turn them magically into continuous circles. Then, Debbie guides you through making gorgeous scalloped edges for classic fans and Dresden plates before revealing how to face, turn and press them like a pro.

Appliquéing Fans & Plates

Find out how to align your faced, pressed fans and plates to your background fabric, and appliqué them three different ways. Then add handles and centers easily and accurately with Debbie’s methods. They’re so much easier than they look!

Designing & Binding

Explore inspiring design possibilities with wedges and pickets, and discover some of Debbie’s favorites. Finally, learn Debbie’s proven methods for cutting, joining and attaching binding strips for beautiful results.