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You’ve probably heard the phrase ‘Rob Peter to Pay Paul’. Many of you have probably “Robbed Peter to Pay Paul” by taking money from your savings account to cover a debt in your checking account or pouring soda from one glass to another to make the amounts even to appease your children.

It is thought that the original phrase came from King Edward VI who ordered St. Peter's Church in Westminster to sell some of its land in order to pay for the repair of St. Paul's in London.

The quilt block ‘Rob Peter to Pay Paul’ is a classic featuring curved seams. Typically this block is considered a block for experienced quilters, but this has changed with the AccuQuilt GO!® Fabric Cutter.

Years ago, quilters would have to painstakingly cut out and pin each piece often losing accuracy and making the completion of a successful block challenging. The time to do this cutting can be very overwhelming. Fortunately, quilters with an AccuQuilt GO!® Fabric Cutter or Studio™ Fabric Cutter no longer have to worry about the accuracy of the cuts or the extensive time spent cutting.

The traditional Rob Peter to Pay Paul quilt has typically been a two-color quilt. A red and white version is shown here. Hand quilters often show their talents in the centers of the blocks by stitching intricate designs.

Notice that there are two different blocks that alternate featuring a positive and negative version of the same block.

The block appears to have a chunk “bitten” out of it. It appears as though bites were taken from one of the squares and added to another square.

The AccuQuilt Rob Peter to Pay Paul design is a two-die set. The ‘Peter’ portion of the die set is the large part with the bites taken out then there is the ‘Paul’ part that is the bite.

With the AccuQuilt GO! Fabric Cutter, a quilter can cut up to six layers of fabric in one pass. This makes it so much easier than the traditional method of pinning and scissor cutting from times past.