5" Color Theme Charm Swap - Reds
#173
Thanks girls!
jlt, Red and white is classic! I thought I'd do creams and light tannish prints because I have a quilt already that I made using a lot of white. Are you going to cut your charm once on the diagonal, or twice? I wanted the smaller triangle. If you cut twice like I did, you have to be careful sewing and ironing because of all the bias edges. I hope to see your blocks soon! Did you finish with your blues and greens? I still have quite a lot of blue.
PS. Well, I guess you could cut 8 triangles, then they would be with the grain... but quite little!
jlt, Red and white is classic! I thought I'd do creams and light tannish prints because I have a quilt already that I made using a lot of white. Are you going to cut your charm once on the diagonal, or twice? I wanted the smaller triangle. If you cut twice like I did, you have to be careful sewing and ironing because of all the bias edges. I hope to see your blocks soon! Did you finish with your blues and greens? I still have quite a lot of blue.
PS. Well, I guess you could cut 8 triangles, then they would be with the grain... but quite little!
Last edited by givio; 12-11-2017 at 06:15 PM.
#174
Givio- Did you end up with a 9" block, is It? I'm afraid to work that small! I've had trouble sewing triangles because the leading point gets sucked down into the hole in the needle plate. How can I prevent that?
#175
Crispy_Frog, The blocks are 11" raw, will be 10 1/2" finished size. A lot of people use a little waste piece of fabric to start chain piecing-- that way when you start the triangle seam for the HST it will follow the little piece of fabric, and you just continue chain piecing all your units. Some people don't like using a little piece of fabric and go with the 'leader/ender' idea, where the first piece you sew is something you will use later. So, if you can sew easily two squares together, for example, then you could use that to start sewing, and after that first unit, start doing your triangles. Another thing you can do is tightly hold your top and bobbin threads. Sometimes it is the thread going down into the feed dogs that leads the point of the triangle down into there along with it.
#176
Sometimes if I'm just too lazy to make the switch, I use the leader-ender method or chain piece. That seems to hold the fabric up.
Edit -- looks like Givio and I were typing at the same time!
Last edited by AnnieQuilts; 12-13-2017 at 03:12 PM.
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