Originally Posted by mom2boyz
I am a new quilter, having made only 3 pieced quilts so far. I have always been intrigued by prairie points either as a border or as part of a quilt but was afraid to try them. Our lqs had a "free" pattern using fat quarters to make a prairie point 3-d pinwheel quilt. It was cute and I thought it looked easy - ha!
What is the trick to keeping all those layers from shifting while sewing? I did pin them but the centers of my squares are off kilter and the lower edges on some are sneaking out to show themselves. Is there a trick or some fail proof method to sewing these little buggers? The bottom fold shouldn't show should it? Thanks for any advice.
Glue them down with a small amount of Elmer's SCHOOL glue, it washes out and WORKS. When you glue them down, use a dry iron and iron over the top part where you glued to heat set it. Then sew them down. If you get them crooked before you are ready to sew, they will pull up easy where you glued them and just reglue.Go to Sharon Schambers site on You Tube and watch her video on putting together quilts using glue, look at the video of Binding an angel, she has 3 videos for this and does it step by step. Good luck.