Originally Posted by
CaleyH
Artanis, Welcome, and happy this thread is helping not only myself, but hopefully others.
As you are, I am a beginner. I am also in the process of putting together a basic block quilt. Just wish I had had more information and experience when I purchased my first fabric squares. What I have are not uniform, so I will have to adjust the distance in to accommodate those block which are short. I still don't have an accurate way of measuring and cutting, so this is what I have to do. Regardless, the experience is enjoyable.
I hope your foray into quitling will also be an ejoyable, and long lasting one.
Thanks CaleyH, for the good wishes. For our first attempts, I hope we both end up with something we can be OK with at the very least. I'm doing pieced squares (a ribbon star with snowballed points) and while the stars are coming out pretty well now that I've done a few (the first one was not so swift, but hey, it was my first one, right?) but the amount of seam allowance on some of my blocks, oiy. The looming prospect of putting them together with the required sashing fills me with fear. Let's just say that in order to get even an adequate seam is going to require a few star points to be stitched over. Not happy about that. I've been so so careful with trimming and seaming, measuring the seams for as close to perfect as i can get with the 1/4", the works, but I still end up with ratty edges of my blocks. Not sure what's up with that, but I'll keep poking around and see if someone else has had that problem. (I know, I'm so unique and all, how could anyone ever have the same problem as me, right??
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Anyway, nice to meetcha, and best of luck to both of us, right?