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

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......

I used the magazine instructions and template patterns in the magazine and had no problem. I think the problem is with the original video. She says to use the wacky web template and apparently using it causes you to lose your points. In my opinion, it is much easier to just use the templates in the magazine. My husband cut the templates out for me using heavy plastic from Lowes (sort of like plexiglass) and it worked great. I had no problems at all.

I'm with Roxanne. I think the wacky web template should only be used for its original purpose. Sometimes trying to use these tools in another way doesn't work out quite so well. I understand they are hoping to sell more of the product by coming up with other uses but I just don't think this one works. I don't like the idea of making an adjustment in the positioning of the template on the fabric to get the end product. I'd rather work with tools that are going to give me very accurate piecing.

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Originally Posted by rebeccas-sewing

I'm with Roxanne. I think the wacky web template should only be used for its original purpose. Sometimes trying to use these tools in another way doesn't work out quite so well. I understand they are hoping to sell more of the product by coming up with other uses but I just don't think this one works. I don't like the idea of making an adjustment in the positioning of the template on the fabric to get the end product. I'd rather work with tools that are going to give me very accurate piecing.

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My thoughts exactly. I didn't understand the concept of using a template that didn't work to begin with, so why try to figure out a way for it to work. Just use the ones that do work.

If I don't have the magazine... what size should the template be?????

I think that is why they did the new video, for those that do not have the magazine.

If you order the template now - it has been corrected and you don't have to make any special revisions. I am looking forward to making the quilt real soon and I am glad they had the template corrected.

p.s. they have the updated tutorial for those that may not want to purchase the updated template. Either way it will work now.

Okay, I'm sticking to what I've started with from the magazine. I do though think Fons and Porter put out an update on their website about the yardage or maybe I'm thinking of something else.

GrammaBabs: I did a post of the wedge pattern from the magazine (got permission from Al before posting it). Here is the link.http://forum.missouriquiltco.com/gen...-word-doc.html.
Also instead of papers, they suggested in the magazine to use a 9 1/2" square cut diagonally.

Honestly, I didn't quite understand the need to make a whole bunch of papers (whether from MSQC or self made), glue them and then tear them off later. Just did a template paper (9 1/2" cut diagonally), sewed the white fabric to the wedge and used the paper template to cut off the excess white. What I just wrote may not make a hectic of a lot of sense without seeing the magazine. LOL.

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Originally Posted by Juliadlf

Okay, I'm sticking to what I've started with from the magazine. I do though think Fons and Porter put out an update on their website about the yardage or maybe I'm thinking of something else.

GrammaBabs: I did a post of the wedge pattern from the magazine (got permission from Al before posting it). Here is the link.http://forum.missouriquiltco.com/gen...-word-doc.html.
Also instead of papers, they suggested in the magazine to use a 9 1/2" square cut diagonally.

Honestly, I didn't quite understand the need to make a whole bunch of papers (whether from MSQC or self made), glue them and then tear them off later. Just did a template paper (9 1/2" cut diagonally), sewed the white fabric to the wedge and used the paper template to cut off the excess white. What I just wrote may not make a hectic of a lot of sense without seeing the magazine. LOL.

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Yes, there was an error in the amount of background fabric. I believe it requires twice as much as the magazine states. Also, I cut the 9 1/2" square diagonally and my husband made me this template also. It worked like a dream. I don't understand the need for the papers either.

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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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