There's a couple of ways you can place a grid on an acrylic block: position the block over a piece of 1/4" graph paper and CAREFULLY trace the grid on the block with a permanent marker (tedious, tedious, tedious!); buy a sheet of 1/4" grided quilting template plastic, use scissors to cut a piece to the size of the block, and stick it on one side of the block (quick as a wink!). No more ungrided acrylic blocks...
Grided template plastic is sold by the sheet or in a packaged assortment of plain and grided pieces. The grid will be in red, blue or black (depends upon the brand). Needless to say, it's found in the quilting section of crafts and fabric stores, and it's very reasonably priced.
I use Scotch Poster Tape to attach the plastic grid to the block. Then if (when) the grid gets grungy, it's quickly replaced. If you're using a cling system, place the UMs on the ungrided side of the block.
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How clever is this! This will go down as another Nancy Ward classic. I tried to invent something similar and didn't succeed well enough to resist buying gridded blocks (like I needed more! :/). This I WOULD have done (and still may with old plain blocks). Thanks for sharing this and so much more.
Janet,
Do it to the plain blocks! I don't think we can have too many blocks...can we?
Nancy
Just brilliant. And Simple. And QUICK. I had been thinking of doing the first possibility - tracing gridlines & that just seemed too work intensive - so to find your solution is almost too good to be true. Thank you for sharing. You are going straight into my favourites!
Elizabeth,
Woo! Brilliant...gonna have to show this to my kids.
As you can imagine, this template plastic isn't limited to the the top of a block. Great stuff!
Nancy
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