Originally Posted by
QuiltE
Am I the only one who does not do so?
I mostly work off the full chunk of fabric ... or off-cuts that have been left from other projects.
Then trim the seamline after stitching each.
I'll do some pics, at a later time ... when I have some time to do so.
So are there any chunkers? Or am I solo on this?
And oh .... for the outer edge pieces ... I always oversize, and not trimming til the final assembly and pressing. That way, I can square it up nicely, and should the block work out a little small, can still trim it to the right size.
I've always worked from the full piece of fabric or larger pieces left over from other projects. I'm actually considering cutting the pieces ahead of time with this project, though. For a project I'm currently working on I mark all the outer pieces with a double hash mark (or 'equal sign') so that I know which pieces to leave larger so that I can square up properly. I'm not the greatest paper piecer, but trying to improve.
Honchey, I've always heard that copy machines can make your pieces slightly larger or smaller so we should use the same copier and copy all pieces at one time. I looked at my paper sections and they look like they fit together properly, but maybe you're right and we should print each section directly from the website.