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Old 06-17-2016, 04:20 AM
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Kris P
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I use the Camp Pick Up Method. (Which I think may also be the EB method.) Imagine your quilt blocks in columns A, B, C and the Rows as 1,2,3... Take block B1 and lay it face to face with A1. Place a pin along the side you wish to sew. Place B2 on A2, and B3 on A3... all the way down. Then stack all the rest of the column on top of each other... C1 on C2,C3,C4... until you have the entire stack in numerical order with C1 on top. Do that for each of the columns.

Then just pick up the pile. A/B on top, C next, the D...
At your sewing machine, Chain stitch A/B blocks along the pinned line. Don't cut the chain. When you run out of blocks that are face to face, you know you are at the bottom. Cut your chain and start again at the top, chain stitching the next block onto the A/B set. When you get to the bottom of the chain set, you know it's time to move to the next column at the top of your chain piecing. Just be sure not to rotate your pile of blocks, ( or place a pin in the top block of each column to orient them as top or the seam line.)

once you run out of blocks, you just need to turn your quilt and l stitch all the rows together. The chain threads help hold it all together.
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