apple cores
 

anyone ve any suggestions for making an apple core quilt.
i'm frustrated with them and thinking of trashing the whole thing.
I've done lots of odd shapes and angels, but there have me a bit befuddled.
so anyone here have and word sof wisdom on them??? help!

That ruler is Huge!

thanks for posting. boy, she has a huge applecore, never saw one that big!

If you cut them out with an Accuquilt they have little notches to match up which makes it easier to match up. Also, I just sew four together at a time to make a block, then sew the blocks together to make a row, etc. Hope that makes sense?! lol!

I started an apple core quilt and got very frustrated when it came time to sew the rows together. Someone told me that you have to put the concave curve on top of the convex curve (or was it the other way around!?!?!?), then sew. Well, it's easy enough to sew two patches together that way, but when it came to sewing entire rows together, I wasn't about to sew one block, put it out of the machine, flip the row, sew the next block, pull it out, flip the row, aarrgghhh!

So I appliqued them instead. I cut a heat-resistant template and pressed the top and bottom seam allowances of the apple core inward over the template. Then I laid them over the raw edges of the apple core next to it and put just a dab of glue on to hold it. On one project I top-stitched the apple cores together; on another I hand-stitched them.

This is a clamshell project, but it illustrates how I prepared my apple cores.

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I sewed 4 apple cores together into blocks then 4 blocks into a bigger block, that was easier than trying to make rows of individual cores.

MSQC has a better demo and show how to put on the border too.

I have never made an Apple Core but I use and love the Curvemaster presser foot, which makes curves easy. Got it at a show but I'm sure you can get it online. Check it out on YouTube.