Tumbling blocks overconfident rookie mistake :(
 

So, I decided to make a tumbling blocks quilt, looked up a pattern online, cut a bunch of 60 degree diamonds, laid them out on my design board. So far, so good. I started sewing rows of blocks, navigating my Y seams just fine with a little patience.

But now I have to join my rows. How on earth do I do this? I took a couple of stabs at it, and then ripped it apart.

Now I see that most people use diamonds and triangles and sew them in straight columns. Ugh! Does anyone have any idea how to navigate the zig and zag of joining tumbling block rows?..

I would do it by hand, I', EPP right now a queen size when finished, it's about 48 x 50 now. along way to go.
when they are set, it's like a EPP hexie. maybe you can look that up and try it that way.

Thanks for the thought, Lynnie. I will look it up. Her's the link to the site I used. http://www.sewing-solutions.com/Tumb...t-pattern.html

Not much explicit instruction. Just says "sew the rows together, " and of course, I gave no thought as to how that might be accomplished before I started. Can you recommend a site on simple instructions for EPP. Obviously I can't be trusted to search the internet on my own. :(

Have a look at Marcia Bakers video clip on you tube I watched it a number of times then bought her pattern and her book
They are tricky to make but the end result is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLkHfcuNzCA if this link does not work google Kaye Wood Y seam tutorial and the rows go together really easy as well.

Thank you so much! I will review and go back to the challenge!

Wish i could find the video of the lady doing it by machine. Like Lynnie, I am also doing an EPP tumbling block. Simply Quilts showed it one time using the plastic pieces and I couldn't resist. But it is very slow going for me since I am so easily distracted. Putting the rows together isn't hard, just slow because you are constantly turning both rows from one point to the next.

Dh picked Tumbling Blocks for his second quilt to make! talk about ambitious!!

..and did he do it! More power or him! Tumbling blocks is a very tricky pattern....I personally like Kaye woods way of doing it......if I was to do it! Haven't mustered up the courage yet!

I stay away from any pattern with a 60 degree angle unless I am going to use paper piecing to insure accuracy.

I did one by hand with the epp method. Really not bad that way. Went fairly quickly all things considered. Don't know that I would attempt by machine though!

Thank you very much, Tartan. I had somehow made it much more complicated in my head. It is a bit tricky, but basically the same technique, and I now have the first two rows together. Six rows left to assemble and join!

What is EPP? I freely admit I don't know everything!! :D :D :D (I'm also know to occasionally be a smart mouth.) :wave:

EPP=English Paper Piecing. Learn something new every day!