Originally Posted by brookemarie19
I'm so confused on doing this in strips. I am starting the Farmer's Wife Sampler and decided to do this by hand from start to finish as that is what was done in the 1920's, but I have no clue how you would be able to do this in strips without it being obvious or really noticable. Thanks for any input you could give me for this.
You just make a section of the quilt and make a strip that you can easily handle. You put backing and batting, pin or baste it, quilt it and then make another section. Then when you have 2 sections done, you place them face to face and sew a seam connecting the first section to the second. You trim the batting and backing to be flat and then you slip stitch the backing and quilt along the connection. You can make these pieces however they are easy for you to handle. I do almost all my quilts like this now and I can get small quilting stitches and can take it with me when I go someplace. I hope this helps. I don't word things very well.