Originally Posted by Kappy
Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
I don't sew rows at all. I sew the blocks into giant 4 patches and then the giant 4 patches together until I have the quilt in 4 quarters. Then I sew the top quarters together and the bottom quarters together. You only have one full width seam that way. Plus the quilt comes out squarer overall.
This sounds like something I'll have to try. Is there a method of pressing you use so the seams aren't all going in one way?
I press just like I would if I was doing rows. All of row 1 seams press to one side all of row 2 seams press to the other direction. The only difference is you're only putting two blocks of row 1 together before you sew them to two blocks of row 2. When you put the giant four patches together you do need to do some planning which way to press the seams. You can still press them so they go in opposite directions.
I also use safety pins and little labels and label my blocks r1b1, r1b2, r2b1, r2b2, etc and I make sure the label is at the top of the block with the top of the label at the top of the block.
When I put the Orion's Star Thangles quilt together I'll do a tutorial!