No more fear of Y-seams!
04-04-2015, 06:11 PM
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I used to belong to a small guild in South Carolina. Our block of the month were skill builders. We'd have an easy block and then a harder block. I learned to do y-seams because of these blocks, learned many techniques as a beginning quilter.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39168443@N06/16048002620/
The bird blocks in this quilt was a block of the month. It has 8 y-seams in the block. I won the blocks by default, nobody else wanted them. I had to make 10 more blocks to have enough for a queen size quilt. The plaid and stripe blocks were made in a quilting class. It helped to set the blocks and frame them so they were all the same size.
Sharon
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39168443@N06/16048002620/
The bird blocks in this quilt was a block of the month. It has 8 y-seams in the block. I won the blocks by default, nobody else wanted them. I had to make 10 more blocks to have enough for a queen size quilt. The plaid and stripe blocks were made in a quilting class. It helped to set the blocks and frame them so they were all the same size.
Sharon
04-05-2015, 07:09 AM
#12
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That's really a unique looking quilt and that sounds hard. The birds look like they are paper-pieced.
Originally Posted by purplefiend
I used to belong to a small guild in South Carolina. Our block of the month were skill builders. We'd have an easy block and then a harder block. I learned to do y-seams because of these blocks, learned many techniques as a beginning quilter.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39168443@N06/16048002620/
The bird blocks in this quilt was a block of the month. It has 8 y-seams in the block. I won the blocks by default, nobody else wanted them. I had to make 10 more blocks to have enough for a queen size quilt. The plaid and stripe blocks were made in a quilting class. It helped to set the blocks and frame them so they were all the same size.
Sharon
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39168443@N06/16048002620/
The bird blocks in this quilt was a block of the month. It has 8 y-seams in the block. I won the blocks by default, nobody else wanted them. I had to make 10 more blocks to have enough for a queen size quilt. The plaid and stripe blocks were made in a quilting class. It helped to set the blocks and frame them so they were all the same size.
Sharon
04-14-2015, 01:29 PM
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CAS49OR, it is the process, not the tool that I was talking about. The tool is very versatile for making the different shapes, but folding the extra part out of the way like wings and sewing each piece all the way across on top of a matching, same sized seam makes all the difference in the world for me.
04-14-2015, 03:43 PM
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Thanks, I'll try it for sure. 
Originally Posted by MarthaT
CAS49OR, it is the process, not the tool that I was talking about. The tool is very versatile for making the different shapes, but folding the extra part out of the way like wings and sewing each piece all the way across on top of a matching, same sized seam makes all the difference in the world for me.
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