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I just designed this mug rug on my EQ5 and now I have no clue how to piece it together. Can anyone help me with this?
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Paper piecing that what i know or English patchwork.
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Do you know how to sew Y seams?
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Originally Posted by amma
Do you know how to sew Y seams?
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Originally Posted by amma
Do you know how to sew Y seams?
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It is basically done as a six point star or tumbling block. Look in quilters cache for patterns like this and you should find instructions.
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Y seams aren't so bad if you are good about marking where you start and stop. I draw the 1/4 inch stiitching line on all sides of the block and where they intersect is my start/stop point. I also make sure to backstitch or knot on Y seams.
If someone knows a better way please save me from myself. I hate the seam ripper... |
If you subscribe to The Quilt Show, the latest episode with Laura Nownes demonstrates this exact piecing technique. Basically you sew to within but NEVER past 1/4 inch of where two pieces meet. I am sure there are tutorials on YouTube for sewing Y-seams. It is not difficult but you do have to be precise!
Just found this on YouTube and it is different from the way I was taught but looks even easier! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLkHfcuNzCA |
There are atleast 3 tutes here showing how to sew them...
PatriceJ, cutebuns and LaceLady off the top of my head :D:D:D |
Ack, I hate Y seams. Good luck.
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The other way I've seen this done is where you break everything into triangles so it appears to be parallelograms but is a much simpler block. You lose a little of the cleanness to the design but no Y seams.
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Oh, or you could do it at equilateral triangles. 2 triangles of each color to get the parallelogram. That might be do-able, esp if you have a 60 deg ruler
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Try splitting the pink diamond into 4 pieces crosswise and see if it is easier. I don't have the design software that you do but it seems that would give you the same effect and would be lots easier and faster. Good luck.
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If you dont want to do Y seams, as Lucy said, just do 60deg triangles. Stitch the triangles together in vertical rows, then join the rows. I did a Christmas hanging like it (ignore the hollow cubes, just look at the solid ones)
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-50464-1.htm |
there is a gal who has re-written several of the old patterns like the tumbling block so that there are no Y seams...she breaks the diamonds apart as some posters have said, sews strips then sews the strips together. Google "not your grandmothers tumbling blocks" and you'll get her information.
Originally Posted by Katrine
If you dont want to do Y seams, as Lucy said, just do 60deg triangles. Stitch the triangles together in vertical rows, then join the rows. I did a Christmas hanging like it (ignore the hollow cubes, just look at the solid ones)
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-50464-1.htm |
Originally Posted by Katrine
If you dont want to do Y seams, as Lucy said, just do 60deg triangles. Stitch the triangles together in vertical rows, then join the rows. I did a Christmas hanging like it (ignore the hollow cubes, just look at the solid ones)
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-50464-1.htm |
try AliciasAttic. It's called Easy Strip-Pieced Tumbling Blocks. It'a video tutorial
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Originally Posted by mzsooz
Originally Posted by Katrine
If you dont want to do Y seams, as Lucy said, just do 60deg triangles. Stitch the triangles together in vertical rows, then join the rows. I did a Christmas hanging like it (ignore the hollow cubes, just look at the solid ones)
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-50464-1.htm |
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