Originally Posted by mzsooz
I had a great day of sewing but sure did have some problems. I have discovered that I'm not very accurate with my cutting. I only got 5 blocks pieced of my butterfly quilt and the first 2 aren't very well done. I totally forgot about starching until I got to the 3rd block. Wow, what a difference it made. I starched my pieces and then retrimmed to the correct size and my blocks look much better.
now only 15 more to go! Phew...and it takes about 1/2 hour per block. So far this is the hardest quilt I've made.
Isn't it amazing what we learn?!?! I was working on my DGD's flannel quilt squares the other day and learned something too. I had bought some of that perfect press and tried it out on some of the flannel. I didn't like the way the iron stuck to the fabric at first, but in the end the flannel was great. Next day I bought some more flannel to replace one of the colors; forgot to use the perfect press. When I started sewing the squares together I couldn't figure out why I was having trouble with some of the strips. Then, light bulb time!!! Didn't starch the one color.