Review on 🔄 Effortless Circle Cutting: Discover the June Tailor Charming Circles Ruler by Angela Rodriguez

I watched the video tutorial before purchasing this series. It looked so easy. I didn't want to make shabby chic with open edges, but sew with decorative seams. Thought it would be easy enough to sew. I made a small pattern of 3 circles by 4 circles for a total of 12 circles. Cutting and marking was easy. I sewed 2 circles together and followed the rest of the instructions, but when I placed my center square and thin batting in the center (I only used cotton for quilting), the center square was too big for the edges of the circle to fold over could . square neatly. I still sent and sewed everything in place. It looked really shabby where the corners meet on all the blocks, although I didn't want a shabby look, I wanted a neat look! My seams looked nice otherwise, but not where the corners meet. This method fails here. If you put a 5" square in a 7" circle, it won't fit. So I decided to give it another try, and this time I decided to try a few different things. First, I cut the fabric and square of batting about 1/8 inch smaller for a better fit (similar to cutting out the lining in a smaller bag for a better fit). Second, I fused fusible fabric to the back of the center square and fused that to batting to hold them in place. I also fused the circles with fusible mesh to keep the other side of the batting in place and after sewing the circles together as I pressed the folded parts of the circle I was able to line them up and fuse them in place, to sew them easier and hopefully they looked better. This time I tried to make 4 patches as a pattern. Although the corners looked better this time when I melted them, they still weren't perfect and I still wasn't happy with the results. Now I understand why they suggested doing it. this ceiling! other June Tailor lines I've bought in the past but this one fails. I love the quilted look this line creates, but I think making cathedral windows the traditional way gives a much, much more pleasing result. a ruler for creating applique circles when making other quilts that I would be much happier and proud of. At least it wasn't a total loss. I think the creators of this ruler and anyone doing a tutorial on how to use this ruler really needs to figure out how to make the corners nice and tidy as long as you don't mess them up. . Without fusing the fabrics in place, it also makes things more difficult to use and arrange. You can add buttons to hide where the inside corners meet, but the outside corners look the worst! Too bad because in theory it was a good idea, it just didn't match the real possibility of making a nice blanket. And how on earth can anyone make a bed-sized blanket using this method? Too complicated to align and sew neatly.