Old Question? How to square up blocks
 

Does anyone know of a good video to watch about squaring up blocks or can explain in easy terms how to do it

Yahoo is your friend. Open Yahoo... type in Squaring Up a Quilt Block

There are many good videos shown there.

I suggest watching Quilty (online episodes by Marianne Fons's daughter Mary Fons). Just watched a two part series on Squaring Up. They didn't recommend squaring each block per se but showed how to measure and square up a quilt for adding borders etc. I think the web address is www.heyquilty.com and then you can select episodes. The two episodes are numbers 220 and 221 they are like 6-8 minutes each. Hope you find what you need.

When I am squaring up a block comprised of different elements, I place my ruler on the center seam and measure out from there. Do this on all 4 sides. When making HST's, I center the ruler on the seam line again and measure to the outside edge on all 4 sides. In both cases, this helps with making sure your block is centered as well as not clipping off important points. I believe in squaring up each element or block as you go along. Generally speaking, you then don't have to square up your entire quilt after it's completed because everything you have put together is already square.

This is a good page with written instructions as to how to square up a block. http://thecraftymummy.com/2014/06/sq...p-quilt-block/ I do it just like they say to.

After pressing a block, I just center the ruler over the block to check to make sure the block is square. Making a square block or quilt is just like when building anything, you want to as you progress check that you are staying accurate with your piecing.

I had the same question recently and found the following video helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kzWJlqyEhA
Good luck!

This is very helpful to me too. I am going to check out the links. I just finished 20 blocks that were supposed to be 12 1/2 " finished. Mine are all 12 1/4" finished. I have checked all of my seams and they are all exactly 1/4". I have no idea where I went wrong. Would you ladies advise me to leave them all at 12 1/4" or trim them to 12"? I don't know what to do.

if they are all square now at 12 1/4 leave them that way. sometimes you just have to go with it.

Barb in Louisiana, thanks for the link. It is always good to review the correct method.