Originally Posted by
NJ Quilter
Not sure I understand your question??? When I do HST's, I add 1" to the desired finished size. For QST's, I'd probably do 1.5". As to 'rules' for speed piecing???? Just cut as many of the fabric pieces as you need, line/stack everything up and keep feeding into your machine...thus 'chain' piecing. When done with all of those, clip the threads between each pieced block and do your pressing or whatever in the same fashion. Match up your next set of seams and follow the same process.
Also, I believe, if use the 'advanced search' function at the top of the screen you can do a search on 'exact term'.
Good luck.
Chain
sewing (or stitching) is feeding fabric squares through one after another as you describe. The dimensions you give is to work one square at a time -- I want to
speed piece where you mark the squares and basically sew a zig zag line, then cut apart. Adding 7/8" (or in your case 1") doesn't work -- that is only if you are working with one square at a time. And, no, the advanced search doesn't allow exact term. I wish it did.
I don't know if this image will show up very well as I hand drew it. This is working with width of fabric. There has a be a rule as to how wide to make the strip to get a certain size hst.
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