Has anyone watched the Update for the Periwinkle Getting The Perfect Point - Your thoughts?

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Originally Posted by Juliadlf

I am confused with the update video on the Periwinkle and getting the perfect point . Has anyone else watched it?
Do we not get a perfect point by just using the pattern and instructions (when you don't have the papers) in the magazine? I did one section back in the springtime to test using cardboard templates before I take them to have them cut in acrylic. Is there something else I may have missed and why we need to slide the fabric. Seems like the magazine instructions/template work fine as is but I haven't done a whole block yet so......

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The update is for the PLASTIC WACKY WEB template only.

The paper template in the magazine is correct.

And it take 8 yards of background fabric, not 4 as the magazine stated.

I think I figured out what was wrong with the original video. I have been watching and watching the videos and reading complaints...and I also have a "new" template for it. The original template had a significantly wider "point" than the new template does. Which was fine for the original wacky web quilt the template was designed for, but not so fine for the periwinkle quilt. The template was revised slightly for the magazine, the point is smaller, that is why the points are not a problem when you use the one from the magazine. Even watching the original video, you can see that her completed block has basically no seam allowance at the point. I noticed right away that if she sewed her blocks together, she was going to lose her points. Jenny's new video is essentially a kind of "fix" for those thousands of people who bought the original template and ended up with blocks that had no point. There are a LOT of very upset people who put a couple hundred dollars into making her gorgeous periwinkle quilt and now feel "betrayed "if you will because their quilt was ruined. The amount of complaints that M*QC received was tremendous. This is one reason I make practice blocks. I would never cut all of my fabric up without making a practice block or two first to see how the quilt will ultimately come together. The template has since been revised and following the original instructions is no longer a problem because the points will not be lost.

I was one of those who saw the tutorial and fell in love with it and ordered everything I needed that day! I hadn't started on it when all the commotion came out about the points, and the template not working. So it all sat on the back burner, so to speak.

I didn't know they had a revised template, but I got the revised papers. I was happy to see a tutorial with the "fix" and have been making blocks.

So the tutorial was for those like me who had the original template.

I used the template from the magazine, after buying the plastic WW template and finding out it wasn't right for the periwinkle blocks.

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