I tried making a CW decades ago and gave up at about 4 blocks in. This tutorial makes it a lot easier.
One person's comment at the end of the tutorial wondered how hard it would be to sew all the blocks together and then get the featured fabric into the middle section of the quilt sewn in. She wondered about doing the quilt in strips with the featured fabric in place already and then sewing the strips together. Does anyone have any ideas if this would work well? I can see her point on how difficult it would be if you are planning to machine sew the curved pieces down.
What do you think?
i haven't worked on "mine" for almost a year, but I do remember maybe doing background squares in batches of 2 rows, 6 in each row, i sewed them together at the fold, then tacked those points down,inserting the window pane, sewing around that flip out in a continuous line (machine, not hand)
from one to the other from end to end.....then joining those "blocks" and filling in.....I seem to do most large project in chunks like that-breaks the monotony for me...do a batch of cutting, ironing, sewing, then back to square one...CW does get cumbersome and heavy..that's just how it is....hmm, maybe I'll dig it out and try to finish it! I read the directions on the site given. She apparently tacks down the four points, then zigzags the squares together..never read it that way before, but we find what works for us.