Info on Jodi Barrows:
Jodi Barrows is an internationally known quilting teacher, speaker and writer. She currently lives in the North Texas area. Her point of view provides the quilter with the freedom to create most any quilt design with speed and accuracy.
Jodi has spoken to quilting audiences throughout the United States, Canada and Australia. She has appeared as a guest on several quilting shows, including TNN's Aleene's Creative Living; TNN's Your Home Studio; Perfecting Patchwork on Family Net TV and PBS series with Kaye Wood. HGTV has shown her commercial on the quilting techniques she has developed on the Simply Quilts show.
Jodi has written seventeen books (ten of which have been on the best seller's list), produced four tools, two video/DVD's and five teacher's books. Additionally, she has a pattern book and fabric line based on a fiction novel she wrote from the 1856 time period entitled Leaving Riverton. She also has a Certified Teacher's Program in the United States and Canada. Jodi has had numerous quilts appear in McCall's, Quilt , Quick and Easy Quilt World, House of White Birch publications, Quilter's Newsletter Top Ten New Products and a featured teacher in the Traditional Quilter.
Jodi has been commissioned to compose quilts for many state and national organizations as well as working with the Kansas Historical Society. She has been active in guilds as well as owning several crafting and sewing related businesses over the years. Jodi was raised in southwest Kansas, has 2 grown sons, and is married to Steve, her high school sweetheart.
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Square in a Square® Technique-REVIEW by Mitzi Roberts
Jodi Barrows has revolutionized the quilting world with the Square in a Square®, a new technique for rotary cutting and strip piecing that allows quilters to achieve perfect points with improved accuracy, simplicity of construction, and speed. The resulting blocks go together with great ease and lay very flat. Sound too good to be true? Trust me, it’s true. The amazing technique begins with a square piece of fabric, or other shape, to which strips of fabric are attached and then cut with a rotary cutter in a very special way. The results are entire blocks or parts of blocks quickly and accurately achieved. To this end, Jodi has designed a special ruler called the Square in a Square® Technique Ruler which makes the unusual cutting incredibly easy. Included with the ruler are diagrams showing how to cut and sew the first seven Options™. The theme is a square inside a square, but the variations which Jodi calls “Options” are quite remarkable. The technique now encompasses 20 Options™. Using these options, you can make half-square triangles four at a time and flying geese blocks two at a time, and the resulting points are sharp and easily achieved. Some of the options begin with a sixty degree diamond for a center. Others begin with a combination of options made into a unit. The 20 options provide the quilter with the ability to construct increasingly complex patterns. Pattern adapting, Option™ Charts, binding instructions, and the fabric amounts are only part of the help you will receive with this complete bolt to binding technique, Square in a Square®. This cutting system is so simple and so accurate that Jodi Barrows will find herself responsible for a huge increase in quilt output everywhere. Meet me by the sewing machines!
Text adapted from the July 1998 issue of TRADITIONAL QUILTER, Raves & Reviews, by Mitzi Roberts