Y Seams
 

Need help with easy way to do Y seams thanks in advance for your help.
Alane

I mark little dots where the points should actually come together and pin them there. Then sew toward the center. Mine came out very well. I also use spray starch. Never used it until this year, now I can't live without it.

I do them exactly like dd does & that method works great for me.

It is a job to do when you are to in a rush go slow and make sure you don't go past the dot mentioned above. Carefully needle down foot up and slowly turn fabric. Foot down and slowly off.

I rank y-seams right up there with colonoscopies and snow storms. I hate them. In addition to marking the dot at the intersections and going slow, a friend here on QB suggested drawing the seam lines to follow and using a drop of glue to hold the edges of the seams together. With glue you don't have pins in the way but the seam line stays in place.

Y seams are more easily done by hand. but the above advice is terrific if you really want to machine it.

Y seams are the bane of my existence I think LOL.

Have only tried them once in my (little over) 7 years of
quilting, they looked so horrible that I ripped out the work
and said "forget that project".

Good luck and maybe someday I "might" venture back to
trying them, but not anytime in the near (or even semi near)
future.

This is a video that shows how I do it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj_zpK5W36Q

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLkHfcuNzCA

Goes rather quickly once you are used to it.

I enjoy y seams! I just go slow and as I come up to the dot I gauge whether my current stitch length will land me on the dot. If I think I am going to be off I lower my stitch length to ensure I land on the dot. Then pivot and keep sewing.

I didn't go into it thinking it was a scary thing, I was shown early on by my quilt instructor when learning a lonestar and as she didn't make a big deal out of it, I didn't stress and it came out perfectly.

So just relax, take your time and do it. Have fun!

I agree with QuiltnNan! It is much easier to make accurate Y seams if you are hand sewing!