Originally Posted by
Jennifer23
The best "no-guessing" way I know involves some marking.
First, on the wrong side, make where your 1/4" seam will be on the center strip (light blue in my diagram). Then, use a ruler to extend a line from the edges of the parallelograms across that seam allowance line (red in my diagram). The edge of the new parallelogram strip needs to go through the point where the two lines intersect when you put them right-sides-together to stitch.
I hope that someone else suggests an easier way; I'm doing something similar, and would love an easier way to line things up!
Thanks Jennifer! That’s kind of where I was thinking when I called it quits last night. Had another go this morning and I’m going to have to go with “Close enough”. I noticed in the two strip sets I have in the picture, the centre strip in the second parallelogram is actually an 1/8” narrower that the first, so obviously, that going to throw it off, as it also did on the third parallelogram I joined to it
. The thing with this project is it’s supposed to be an Improv piecing method, so perfect doesn’t matter so much, but I just hope when I try to square up, I’ve got enough left in my set to move to the next step. Of course I don’t have a pattern...that would be too easy. It didn’t look difficult in the picture, insert “eye roll” here
). I’m working with strips I won playing Strip Poker with my fellow quilters and have 80 strips to work with, as well as a bit of fabric I’ve pulled from my stash for accent. Wish me luck and thank you and the other responders for your suggestions.