Originally Posted by
L'il Chickadee
Hi Cattitude, I'm a new member here, hope you won't mind my chiming in. I looked at the quilt directions and I think I see what is confusing you. They have you sew a square to the end of a strip, stitching a diagonal line. Next they want you to turn over the corner of the square and press, but the wording says this:
Sew on marked line. Trim excess, leaving 1⁄4" seam allowances. Press open to make Unit 1. The unit still should be 2-1⁄2 ×10-1⁄2" including seam allowances.
I see what you are saying...this is not a seam pressing direction but rather just an instruction to flip over the snowball and press it? Thanks, I will have to learn to read instructions better!
I ended up trying it both ways. Pressing to the side worked fine except when blocks are joined together and you have the two side pressed seams going in the same direction. that was a bit awkward and so I pressed the edge of the seam open only.