Yes, sew all the way through the stack leaving the thead attached (that makes a chain). when you are through the stack and any strip left over attached to the bottom pair, you cut the chain from your machine.
Then starting again with that chain of pairs sewn together, sew two sets of those together, all the way through. You will now have four strips sewn together in each section of your chain...if there is one left over, sew it to the last one (the one on your machine). each time your do this it will double the number of strips sewn in each section of your chain.
Then do it again, and your will have 8 strips sewn together in each section of the chain.
There are 49 strips in each quarter section of the quilt, so once your get to where you are sewing four strip to four strips, it goes pretty fast.
It's in the beginnig, when your are sew two strips together it seems like you will never get through the stach.
Originally Posted by colleen53
its absolutely beautiful... trying to figure it out though.. i feel lost.. so you are taking the first stack and sewing them in pairs? leaving the thread attached all the way down?
then you go to second stack?