Mark 1/4" for hand piecing?
 

Hello y'all. I've just recently discovered the unbelievably wonderful Scrappy Quilt Show thread. I've gone through about 100 pages of it so far, and I'm very motivated to start using the 2" squares I've been accumulating for the past few months. I'd like to make it a hand-piecing carry-along project, but would appreciate advice from you Hand-Piecers on whether you mark the 1/4" allowance for your seams when sewing together those tiny pieces, and if you do what's a good carry-along method for doing it? Thanks for any help you can provide.

I just want to add that I think this board is so terrific. I'm a fairly new quilter but I've started to bring lots of new ideas that I've learned here to my quilting group at home. (e.g., just did the board sandwiching method, and ready to try Elmer's)

In the past I have used 1/4" masking tape if thats any help

Thanks, Janedee. That sounds like a great way to do it especially if sitting in a car or a waiting room. Do you keep reusing the same piece? Have you worked on such little pieces?

Yes you can reuse the same piece several times, it will loose its stickyness, like you I did 2" squares to start with, all scrappy, I made them into blocks using 12 squares across and down as I wasn't sure if I was going to break up the blocks with sashing, in the end I just joined them all together, came in very handy when I had to sit around waiting for my daughters doing there various activities and of course travelling in the car - hope you have fun with it

I usually try to mark them using a small ruler. It makes an accurate seam so much easier especially while riding in a car.

I do usually mark them. I just carve out a block of time to do a lot of it at once so I don't have to do it again for a while. :)

Thanks again--yes...GREAT way to spend "wasted" time. :)

I kind of thought that was the case. Thanks for your reply.

That's a good idea, too. Thanks.