Mark 1/4" for hand piecing?
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Mark 1/4" for hand piecing?
Hello y'all. I've just recently discovered the unbelievably wonderful Scrappy Quilt Show thread. I've gone through about 100 pages of it so far, and I'm very motivated to start using the 2" squares I've been accumulating for the past few months. I'd like to make it a hand-piecing carry-along project, but would appreciate advice from you Hand-Piecers on whether you mark the 1/4" allowance for your seams when sewing together those tiny pieces, and if you do what's a good carry-along method for doing it? Thanks for any help you can provide.
I just want to add that I think this board is so terrific. I'm a fairly new quilter but I've started to bring lots of new ideas that I've learned here to my quilting group at home. (e.g., just did the board sandwiching method, and ready to try Elmer's)
I just want to add that I think this board is so terrific. I'm a fairly new quilter but I've started to bring lots of new ideas that I've learned here to my quilting group at home. (e.g., just did the board sandwiching method, and ready to try Elmer's)
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Yes you can reuse the same piece several times, it will loose its stickyness, like you I did 2" squares to start with, all scrappy, I made them into blocks using 12 squares across and down as I wasn't sure if I was going to break up the blocks with sashing, in the end I just joined them all together, came in very handy when I had to sit around waiting for my daughters doing there various activities and of course travelling in the car - hope you have fun with it
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Yes you can reuse the same piece several times, it will loose its stickyness, like you I did 2" squares to start with, all scrappy, I made them into blocks using 12 squares across and down as I wasn't sure if I was going to break up the blocks with sashing, in the end I just joined them all together, came in very handy when I had to sit around waiting for my daughters doing there various activities and of course travelling in the car - hope you have fun with it
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