Tumbling blocks overconfident rookie mistake :(
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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?..
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?..
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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