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For today’s tip, I’m excited to share this fantastic new Yardage Planner I developed with the help of my graphic design friend, Lindsie Bergevin.
Whenever I am designing a quilt, or even making a quilt from a pattern, I find that it’s helpful to think about how to efficiently cut into the fabric to make the quilt. This requires a lot of sketching and erasing at times. I thought it would be nice to have a piece of graph paper that already had the parameters of a yard of fabric printed out and numbered, to save time.
So here it is in a PDF format for you to download for free! I hope you find it helpful. Please pin it for later if you like it!
PDF of Yardage Planner
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Stephanie, the graph paper is great – thanks for taking the time to make (and share).
Very cool! One of the reasons I love designing in Inkscape is that it looks like graph paper and I can do this same thing by making all my precut sizes and laying them out and playing “tetris” with the pieces. This is a great idea for having on the go and sketching ideas away form a PC. 🙂
Excellent tool, this will be so handy!!
This is great!
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This is awesome!! Thank you so much! I’m totally a draw and erase person when it comes to efficient cutting, and I have OFTEN made mistakes along the way. These are priceless. <3
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A great idea! thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much! Now that I wear bifocals, even the formerly simple task of looking down to number the little boxes and then up and then down has become a huge, dizzying hassle and I make the most ridiculous mistakes. (Penance for when I was younger and thought my perfect eyesight was akin to a talent I had practiced and polished. Youthful arrogance.) But I’m digressing. The point is: thank you!
Great idea – I usually work it out using Touchdraw or inkscape but an offline version where i can go wild with coloured pencils is brilliant!
I love the yardage planner!! I was just trying to do this in my head this weekend, but a sheet like those would mean a lot more sketching and lot less math. Thanks 🙂
Thank you! I’ve done this in Excel but having a printable will save time…and sanity! 🙂
This will be so helpful!
It looks amazing! I love the lay out and how much easier it would be than using graph paper. One thing I’d like to see is some precut messuremen’s laid on the graph. Like a fat quarter.
Guess what, Sherry! I totally agree with you. I will post an updated version for you soon.
Thanks so much for sharing, Stephanie. This should be a wonderful tool in our future quilt planning. I wondered about the numbers being changed to the other direction as the inches come off the bolt??
That’s a great idea!