String Quilt Block: A Foundation Piecing Tutorial using Elmer's Washable School Glue
 

http://www.sewmuchlikemom.com/2012/1...n-piecing.html


great blog!!!

I have used Elmer's school glue in applying machine sew bindings and for applique. I appreciate you posting the link for this. So much easier to keep the strips straight.

Thanks for posting! Didn't know that Sharon Schamber had a daughter.....and such a talented one, too!

I watched the tutorial but I don't get it.........why glue a strip and then sew over it???? Isn't that redundant?

to keep the strips straight.

I agree with joym, I don't get it either.

I appreciate your posting the link, but I also don't see any need to glue the strips. I've made dozens of string quilts and it seems to me she is just complicating what should be an easy process. I do not use pins to make string blocks, and I make them on muslin. I just flip and sew, aligning the raw edges as I go. If I had to stop and glue and heat set between every strip, it would take twice as long, thus defeating the goal of a quick quilt.

Thanks for the link!

Why waste the time gluing it just sew and be done with it.

Thanks for the tutorial. I like the idea of a bit of glue and no pins. However, I make all my string blocks without any foundation. They are always straight and get trimmed to size in the same way.

I have made a number of string quilts and I agree that it looks like double work in putting the glue on..just sewing a straight line of sewing on the edge of the strips will do for me..I also use a foundation, usually muslin or a piece of fabric is just too ugly to use on the front of a quilt....

Thanks so much for the well done tutorial. I really liked it and will look forward to putting it into action. That was so nice of you to do for us out here. Thanks again.

Vickey

I agree that it makes extra work. Not only that, but I thought the whole point of string quilts was using up scraps, and frugality is a large part of that picture. Using that applique paper in this way would easily double the cost! I was raised by parents who lived through war and the Great Depression, and I guess a lot of their attitude rubbed off on me - I'm just too old fashioned for this kind of quilting.

However, for a more complicated paper pieced block in something that was going to be a bit more special than a string quilt, such as a wedding gift, I think I could get over my resistance. I appreciate that there are talented people coming up with these products and innovations, and it's also fantastic to see that Sharon Schamber's daughter is carrying on with the great quilting as well as the sharing of information.

You can also tell she has young eyes. That tiny gray font is charming, but it gives me fits!

As a beginner, I can definitely see value in this toot.
Even when I "pin, pin pin," I end up with fabric that has somehow distorted ever so slightly. Also, I have a very bad habit of not taking the pins out as I'm sewing, or I forget just as one is about to hit the needle, and pull it out without lifting the foot (yes, I know, all bad newbie habits).
Without having to even use pins, this method would keep the fabric from walking away on me, and doesn't seem THAT much more time consuming than putting the pins in and taking out in the first place. Someday I'll be able to sew a straight line w/out pinning...
I love the look of her "planned" string quilt and the coordinating fabrics. They ARE fun!
On applique paper...I see it doubling the cost as well, but it sure makes a nice flat back, doesn't it!

I like it. Thank you for posting.