berryberry

I haven't had a problem with nest YET. Oh, Please tell me more how you were running into it so I can learn from your experience. The only nests I heard of is due to tension on the back.
I did one of the Boston blocks with chevrons last month. The skill was to do half squares and keep the points, then to have all the points match. I just got a new machine so I was trying to find the 1/4. This machine won't let me do the index card trick and the needle doesn't sit in the middle. It's over to the left. I set the machine on 2.5 which gets the needle in the middle and does a sant 1/4, but I had a problem with total sizing of the block. Now I know it's 1.0. and live with the needle to the left.

Rhonda

What exactly happened to cause the nest problem? There shouldn't be any nesting. When I sew mine together I sew sets of 2 blocks and then I sew the 2 blocks into 4 blocks. then sew the 4 blocks together into the quilt block.

If you can take a pic and post when you have a problem like that I can help you with it. I'm always happy to help.

Rhonda

Contrast - my tip to to look at the value of the fabric,. Is it a light or a med? does the fab fall in the middle of these two? If you put them together and stand back a ways can you clearly see two diff colors or do they blend? I prefer to use a really light / med/ and a dark. Think of the values on a scale of one to ten. then place your fabric on that scale. A white as a 1 and a black as a 10. A dark green would be a 10 a white with a green print would be a one.

Sometimes it is hard to decide the value level. I break them down into light-med light- dark light / llight med- med- dark med / light dark-med dark - dark

Hey maybe this should be a lesson to post LOL

JuneBillie

I am not quite sure how I had the nesting happen in one place. I did use the putting four together then making others and connecting them as you said. It was a great tip for me. I am learning the value, but I look and look to make sure. lol...

Are we suppose to wait until our partners get their block before posting a pick of it? lol....I am referring to the swap for May.

Rhonda

that's up to your partner JB I like seeing them anytime but if someone wants to be surprised I understand waiting to post.

JuneBillie

Yes, and I am kidding more than anything. I do look forward to all our pics though. I will try to ask more questions as I have any problems on my next block. Thank you Rhonda.

Rhonda

So sorry I had such a hectic day yesterday I forgot to post partners!!

berryberry - Queenof2802
JuneBillie - stitchengramie
Queenof2802 -berryberry
AlaskaAlice -ube quilting
Stitchengramie - JuneBillie
ube quilting -AlaskaAlice

stitchengramie

I have a block for Junebillie but I do not know how to add it to the board. Can someone help please? Thanks, Mary

stitchengramie

Here is the block that I made for JuneBillie.

stitchengramie

Here is JeanBilli's block for June 2013. I hope that you like it.