Tuesday, August 2, 2011

App Store Tuesday

One of the things that any of my "Quilty" girlfriends will tell you is that I LOVE to help.   Sew Days, retreats, teaching classes, you name it....I LOVE making that little light bulb go on for a quilter.  I'm a problem-solver, a troubleshooter, an educator and learner.  I love to creep around the room on retreats and peek at what everyone is doing.  Whether it be to spot something I've never seen before and learn it, or find a fellow quilter that doesn't have the "at ease" feeling that the seasoned girls have and help them find it.   This week - my featured app of the week is a "Helper" app.    I've whipped this little baby out at retreats, during classes, and even weekly when I was working behind the counter at a quilt shop!

By Robert Kaufman Fabrics

Description
Robert Kaufman Fabrics and Quilter's Paradise have joined forces to bring you a collection of eight essential quilting calculators.

You'll be able to quickly convert between yards and inches, meters and centimeters; learn how much fabric you need for backing, batting and borders; and understand how many rectangular pieces can be cut from a larger piece. There are even calculators for square in a square, set-in and corner triangles.

A brief description of each calculator:

Fabric Measurement Conversion: Converts between inches and yards in decimal form, and yards in fractional form. (With metric equivalents.)

Backing and Batting Calculator: Determines how much yardage from a bolt of fabric is needed to make the backing for a quilt.

Piece Count Calculator: Shows the number of fixed-sized pieces of fabric that may be cut from a larger piece.

Pieces to Area Calculator: Indicates how much fabric is needed in order to cut a given number of fixed sized pieces.

Binding Calculator: Tells you the amount of fabric required to bind your quilt based on the quilt’s dimensions and the binding strip width.

Border Calculator: Shows the amount of fabric required to create borders, based on a quilt’s dimensions and the width of the borders.

Square in a Square Calculator: Works out all the key dimensions of a square in a square block.

Set-in and Corner Triangle Calculator: Determines the size of the square piece you’ll need to cut in order to create both unfinished set-in triangles and unfinished corner triangles.

3 comments:

  1. I don't have an iphone (yet) but have an itouch and downloaded this free app. Looks VERY handy.
    ! Wish I had it years ago! Numbers have never been my friend...but this will change everything!

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  2. Poop. Can't switch to an iPhone until January. You'll have to remind me of all the great apps at our May retreat!

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