I am making 4 Trip Around the World quilts for my 4 sisters using some of the same fabrics and some different ones, so no one quilt will be exactly the same as another.
I found some cute fabric with small birdhouses on it but it is a linear print. I have read it can be tricky to use in a TAW quilt. I can't get my head around how to cut it (not good with spatial visualization) so that the birdhouses aren't sideways, upside down, etc. I am using the strip piecing/tube method of piecing, such as the one on Quiltville
http://quiltville.com/tatwpf.html, cutting 4 strips from each fabric, one for each quarter of the quilt.
Any help on how to cut the fabric? Should the strips be cut parallel to the designs? Maybe I need to sew half the strips so that the birdhouses face the fabric on one side and half so it faces the fabric on the other side? Luckily, this is the only fabric (so far) that is a linear print!
Thank you for any help.