Hmm, I went back out to the link and not sure where you are seeing graphs? Is it because of the quilt(s) in the back ground that might look like graphs? Or maybe the little cutting boards & rulers she uses - that DO have the numbers and lines on them - to cut the fabric?
Is anyone else seeing graphs?
In all actuality, the Jacobs Ladder pattern IS NOT a beginner quilt - when you cut each individual piece the way I started out doing many years ago. But it is a pattern I've always loved and it can be done in just two colors - the MSQC shows it in a finished quilt that does a lot of pattern shifts due to the color gradations of her fabric AND the demo is done in red and white - just two colors. I was fascinated by the EASY (or EASIER?) techniques she demo'd that made it so much faster to do. Putting the pre-cut strips together first, then cutting those to make the squares. Then putting those two color squares together with the next one and it makes a larger 4 patch square.
One of her other videos shows how to do a "string block". I always thought that meant they were using string or something, I don't know. It is actually a way to make many types of blocks with different materials (patterns) - by piecing on paper. I still didn't understand that - until watching her video not once but a couple of times before the "AH HA" lite went on. W/O cutting fabric into little pieces (you do need at least one proper straight edge on the piece and preferably 1 on each side), she shows how to use the pieces to make a block in a design and then again cuts that block from 1 corner to the other & then another corner to the other - making striped triangles that can then be made into different designs. It was/is fascinating...
I can't find the paper pieced one - will look for it later, gotta go!
818pm - AH - found it!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ02NM9-USwI think this is the one, though I thought I watched one made with Xmas fabric -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05OwI46u1oY The one is shown with striped fabric - not precut -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8xgM1H2X18I decided that if half my quilt is made up of Army uniforms that have been taken apart (takes forever, breaks fingernails & seam rippers, lots of blisters) - then maybe for the contrasting colors, investing in precut squares and strips would make it much easier/faster to do a quilt. I hope to eventually find out.
Part of what I liked about the MSQC's You Tube videos is the fact that she's working with a lot of pre-cut fabric that didn't require doing a lot of measuring - the measurements are built in due to the sizing of the precut fabric (5" & 10" squares, 2.5" strips that are 40-45" long. Honestly that's where a lot of my own hang up is - so for me - that was a revelation! Even if I take materiel that I already have (I have a LOT of clothes that I've sat and taken apart) and then cut it into strips or squares like the precuts they sell, then use the techniques that she shows for sewing them (had never heard of putting two 10" squares together, sewing the WHOLE THING all around the edges in a complete square, and then cutting it from one corner to the next and then again from the other corner to the next making 4 separate units that are now triangles that are sewn together and when opened up and pressed flat are now squares). Saves time, no measuring or very,very little. I was fascinated and excited and HOOKED.... I've watched several others of her videos since then and have been looking at/studying the various fabrics...
Hmmmmm