Originally Posted by Naturalmama
Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
I never sew a quilt together row by row. Sew the whole top into pairs. Then sew the pairs into big four patches and so on until you have the top sew into quarters. Then sew the top half together and the bottom half together and then the top half to the bottom half. You only have one long seam. You only have half the quilt on the sewing machine twice and you only have the whole thing on the machine once.
This is how I thought it was done - I'm afraid if I make rows, that if I have one off, then that will throw the whole row off.... this way it would be less apparent, or I thought, anyway.
Funny though that there are differences - I guess there is no right or wrong way then! But I should iron the seams in the different directions... although I'm wondering how that works if done into squares instead of rows.... maybe it will be more apparent when I start. Thank you!!
I iron my seams in opposite directions. It's harder to remember which way to iron the seams when you do it this way. I finally bought the directional straight pins made by Fons and Porter to keep track of which way they go. You can get the pins at JoAnn's.