Using Fan Pattern To Create Rays
IQ Booster #6
This one walks you through using fan pattern for rays around a no-sew zone. I just choose a block for a no-sew zone to minimize the steps, but you
can add a pattern, create pattern contour then continue with no-sew zone.
On a real quilt you may be tracing around a motif to create the no-sew
zone. As always I simply list the buttons you need to touch, using your tablet off the machine in demo mode. Additional comments will be in brackets.
design/sew quilt
start new
Block Pattern
enter
rectangle manually
width 10" - height 10" - continue
finished
select
geometric catalog - select 'line' - continue
finished
add pattern
fan
pattern
follow the instructions, selecting the line as the pattern you want
to use - continue
the angle is 5 and there are 10 repeats - change repeats
to 72 (use
the keypad under the image)
(Now this where you can play
if you want before continuing with my directions. Change the angle for
fewer rays - use the + and -
buttons under the image. Note that for some
angles you'll see fewer rays but there are still 72 repeats - that's because
some of the lines are right on top of each other. You can see that there are
some interesting effects with irregularly spaced rays. When you've
finished playing continue with the instructions below)
angle - 20
repeats - 18
finished
finished
add/edit block
modify block
select
the block - continue
move the block so that its center point is over the
center point of
the pattern - finished
add block
no-sew zone
do
what it says (touch the fan pattern as the pattern to be affected) - continue
If you have blocks in your block catalog, select the option to Load
From Block Catalog and choose one.
If you don't have blocks in the block
catalog, select enter rectangle manually
width 6" - height 6" - continue
finished
accept (transition type-continuous) - yes
add block
clipping
block
do what it says (again select the fan pattern as the pattern to be
affected) - continue
do what it said (this time do Select Existing Block as
your method for defining the clipping block, and choose the original 10x10
square)
continue
finished
accept (transition type continuous) - yes
Now you can play more and follow the steps but choose 'arc' instead of
line for the rays, how about trying arc-2? Or angle?