Originally Posted by Virginia
Oh, am I happy. Just got an E-mail from a friend who knows how I like the Bow Tie blocks. I especially like them for Crib Quilts. She sent me a simpler method and I love it. No twisting around the corners or getting tucks at the corners instead of a clean corner.
Rather than using the square for the knot, she used 2 triangles.
It consiste of 4 squares, 2 print and 2 plain, with the triangles stitched to the joining corner of the plain square. Press those seams toward the triangle point. After trimming the excess plain under the triangle off, stitch the 4 squares together.
Easy, quick and very rewarding.
Please share any tips with all of us. Thank You!
Thursday, September 29: I have a suggestion that many of you might find useful.
When making blocks on the sewing machine, I make two patterns. Currently, I'm making 2 crib quilts. One is scattered nine patch and the other is an Itty Bitty Bow Tie.
I take # 1 pattern and sew the first step without cutting the thread, until the first step of # 1 pieces are done, then I take the # 2 pattern and do the first step, still without cutting the thread. Following those 2 first steps, I start the second step on # 1, then on # 2. I continue this rotation until all the steps are taken on both # 1 and # 2 and each block is finished. If you are working on Crib Quilts it works fine. But on a larger quilt, I do this until the bobbin runs out, leaving the work in the machine. The purpose of this method is to "Save Thread" which is costly by today's pricing standards. On every 12 pieces you sew, you save 3 yards doubled, (bobbin & upper thread 3 inches each).
I bought a spool of Mercerized cotton size 30, 1200 yrds per spool at Hobby Lobby. Cost $5.95 plus tax and in Illinois that is a lot.
If you believe my calcutations are not accurate, please let me know. Thanks!