Quiltingboard Forums - Jack's chain piecing help

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Originally Posted by eibed (Post 8366881)

I know this post was last year but I've started a jack's chain....I'm stitching my 9 patches with the sewing machine and then hand stitching the triangles in and then the hex - my problem and question is the fabric wants to go to the triangle for pressing but at the tip of the triangle there is way-way to much fabric piling on top of the seams....what do I do? Hope you understand my question...and have a solution...

I let the seams go the way they wanted to. I found that pressing the 9 patch seam back on itself added more bulk. You will get bulk at the tips of the fitting triangles and there, I just pressed them really hard and they laid down better. I found it is a quilt that does its on thing where the directions of the seams want to go. I just pressed it and let them go. I am hand quilting it now but it is a slow process. I hope that helps.