Hi there everyone. Marcy here with a simple tutorial for you today.
I keep a mental list of things I want to try on future layouts. They may not be very complicated but they're outside my box a bit anyway.
For a while now I've wanted to try making a patterned paper pie chart. Now, not every layout will cry out for a pie chart so it took a little thought on my part to find the right topic. Plus, I always think what I'm attempting will be a lot harder than it is. I overthink stuff. After a while I came up with a simple plan and dove in.
I decided that I could represent the way we divide our time on our trips to Florida with a chart quite well. So I printed off my photos and gathered a handful of papers that went well together. From there I decided on the approximate size that I wanted my pie chart to end up.
I borrowed my kids' compass and drew out a short piece of the chart.
Then, using a rular, I connected the tip to each of the ends of the curve I drew. This gave me a shape that looked like the piece of the pie.
I repeated random sized pieces on all my papers and trimmed them out.
Now... I am NOT a measurer... so I didn't worry about the sizes of my pie pieces... just that they varied. I decided that I was okay just overlapping them where necessary when I put everything together.
I like to move things around on my page, so I decided to assemble my pie chart on a smaller sized circle cut from scrap paper.
I adjusted my last piece to fit, trimmed any pieces that stuck over, sewed it all down and was left with this result...
And here's a little closeup of my pie chart.
I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Has anyone else tried a pie chart on their page? How did you go about it?