LadyAg77

Hello everyone,

After hand-sewing 72 "berries" down, I have finished my first block of a new quilt. The berries are padded inside and everything else has padding attached to the back of the block.

My problem is that all of the sewing and hand manipulation has really caused wrinkles on the block. I tried to iron it with my small travel iron and the iron was still too big to get around the berries.

My questions: 1) Does the block really need to be ironed before quilting? 2) Will the quilting remove or lessen the wrinkles? 3) Should I have put the block in a hoop before I hand-sewed all the berries on? 3) Should I try using the very small Clover mini-iron?

I would be grateful for suggestions on what to do now on this block, and/or how to minimize the wrinkling on the next block.

Thanks!