Originally Posted by sew cornie
Nonnie, I'm sorry this has been so frustrating. Good for you for not giving up! It seems it's been beneficial to have several methods available to use: pp, rotary, template. Something for everyone, and like you found, if one method doesn't work as well, try another one. Even with your rough time with these, your resulting blocks are beautiful!
As for blocks coming out 1/4" shy, would it help to block these to try to coax them into the right size? I haven't tried it before, but have read about it on the board here and people say it works if you only need to grow your blocks a smidge. If anyone tries and finds it successful, please let us know.
Hello - I have been struggling along as well. I was able to get my hands on Marti Mitchell template sets A and B. I now try to rotary cut strips and then piece the templates and cut. The cutting takes the most time. I also have been really making my seams smaller. All these things seem to help. But I also have found that I need to be very careful when I press as I have seen a piece stretch a LOT when I pressed it and moved the iron too much. then the resulting seam was not straight. All I can say is I hope I am getting better. This will not be a perfect quilt fo rme but a learning quilt.