Cool Tools designed to
Prepare for Perfect Piecing
About Us
Guidelines4Quilting was founded by
John and Ritz Brady
Their focus is on making tools to prepare for perfect piecing.
There's a joke amongst quilters about how piecing is where we take a bunch of perfectly good fabric, cut it all up and sew it back together again.
Most quilters get a chuckle out of that because we know how much time and effort it takes to develop the skills for accurate piecing.
We wouldn't put in all that time and effort if we didn't love the colors and textures of fabric. A finished quilt, no matter how accurately it's put together, is much more than just the sum of its parts.
John and Ritz are avid tennis players, and on weekends you’ll probably find them out on a tennis court trying to hit "Screaming Winners Down the line" against each other.
The more accurate the parts, the easier the piecing
But accurate parts do matter and, in a nutshell, piecing is all about squaring up, cutting and sewing accurately. And it was a question John had about the cutting process that started them down the path that led to Guidelines4Quilting.
Why do quilters have to find the lines on their rulers by eye? Most tools to cut wood or metal, into specific widths or lengths, have some type of guide. For example, on a table saw, it's called a fence. Set the fence to the width you want to cut and it takes all the guesswork out of cutting accurately, the first time and the second time and the third time and as many as you need.
It's not too much of a stretch to compare building a house to making a quilt. To a home builder there are times when they want to measure something and a ruler or a tape measure is the right tool to use. But when they want to cut pieces to a specific length or width, they use tools with guides.
The Guidelines Ruler with built-in Fabric Guides was Guidelines4Quilting's first tool. It also included built-in Grip Strips to solve another common problem.
Today Guidelines4Quilting's products include Grip Strips and Fabric Guides you can add to any conventional ruler with their Quilt Ruler Upgrade Kit. The Quilt Ruler Connector makes squaring up easier and the Super Easy Seam Guide Setter takes the guesswork out of sewing an accurate Scant 1/4" seam allowance.
Grip Strips & Fabric Guides
Cut pieces fast, accurate & fatigue free the Mistake-Proof & Slip-Proof Way, using our flagship tool: Guidelines Ruler or by adding Grip Strips and Fabric Guides to the rulers you already have with the Quilt Ruler Upgrade Kit.
Simplify Seam Allowance
Finished-Size Quilting simplifies the entire process of making traditional blocks any size accurately. No Math. No Expensive Templates or Dies.
Cool Tools designed to
Prepare for Perfect Piecing
Guidelines4Quilting was founded by
John and Ritz Brady
Their focus is on making tools to prepare for perfect piecing.
There's a joke amongst quilters about how piecing is where we take a bunch of perfectly good fabric, cut it all up and sew it back together again.
Most quilters get a chuckle out of that because we know how much time and effort it takes to develop the skills for accurate piecing.
We wouldn't put in all that time and effort if we didn't love the colors and textures of fabric. A finished quilt, no matter how accurately it's put together, is much more than just the sum of its parts.
John and Ritz are avid tennis players, and on weekends you’ll probably find them out on a tennis court trying to hit "Screaming Winners Down the line" against each other.
The more accurate the parts,
the easier the piecing
But accurate parts do matter and, in a nutshell, piecing is all about squaring up, cutting and sewing accurately. And it was a question John had about the cutting process that started them down the path that led to Guidelines4Quilting.
Why do quilters have to find the lines on their rulers by eye? Most tools to cut wood or metal, into specific widths or lengths, have some type of guide. For example, on a table saw, it's called a fence. Set the fence to the width you want to cut and it takes all the guesswork out of cutting accurately, the first time and the second time and the third time and as many as you need.
It's not too much of a stretch to compare building a house to making a quilt. To a home builder there are times when they want to measure something and a ruler or a tape measure is the right tool to use. But when they want to cut pieces to a specific length or width, they use tools with guides.
The Guidelines Ruler with built-in Fabric Guides was Guidelines4Quilting's first tool. It also included built-in Grip Strips to solve another common problem.
Today Guidelines4Quilting's products include Grip Strips and Fabric Guides you can add to any conventional ruler with their Quilt Ruler Upgrade Kit. The Quilt Ruler Connector makes squaring up easier and the Super Easy Seam Guide Setter takes the guesswork out of sewing an accurate Scant 1/4" seam allowance.
Grip Strips & Fabric Guides
Cut pieces fast, accurate & fatigue free the Mistake-Proof & Slip-Proof Way, using our flagship tool: Guidelines Ruler or by adding Grip Strips and Fabric Guides to the rulers you already have with the Quilt Ruler Upgrade Kit.
Simplify Seam Allowance
Finished-Size Quilting simplifies the entire process of making traditional blocks any size accurately. No Math. No Expensive Templates or Dies.
