More Practice and Lessons Learned
08-31-2009, 06:50 PM
#22
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: MI
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Great job on your blocks!!! :thumbup: I love them in the Christmas fabrics!!!
~ another now added to my list! lol!!!!! :D
It's funny how you think you're sewing each seam perfectly, until you measure them.... The quilt top I just finished for my daughter started out being 7" blocks. They all ended up a perfect 6 3/4"! Some were a tad too short, so I shortened them all on each side. I could cheat as I was the one who made up the pattern. lol!!!
I think I'm going to copy your idea and mark my machine too, at 3/16th, as I usually have the same issue!
~ another now added to my list! lol!!!!! :D
It's funny how you think you're sewing each seam perfectly, until you measure them.... The quilt top I just finished for my daughter started out being 7" blocks. They all ended up a perfect 6 3/4"! Some were a tad too short, so I shortened them all on each side. I could cheat as I was the one who made up the pattern. lol!!!
I think I'm going to copy your idea and mark my machine too, at 3/16th, as I usually have the same issue!
08-31-2009, 09:07 PM
#23
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: MN
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Originally Posted by Rhonda
Your blocks are terrific looking!
The best advice I would give anyone of any level of experience is to pay attention to making sure your seams are straight and even. Whatever size your seam allowance is if your seams are at all crooked it will show in the finished size of your blocks. Also pay close attention to making sure your seams meet accurately and things will fall in place like they should!!
I like to take the time to tack a stitch instead of using pins when I am joining blocks together. A stitch is less likely to allow the fabric to move and pins don't always keep the fabric in place well enough when you are matching seams. I tack everywhere 2 seams meet and at the ends where the seam will go through. If you place your tacks where the seam will go through you don't have to take them back out and you don't have to mess with pins.
Keep up the good work!! Your blocks are looking great!!
The best advice I would give anyone of any level of experience is to pay attention to making sure your seams are straight and even. Whatever size your seam allowance is if your seams are at all crooked it will show in the finished size of your blocks. Also pay close attention to making sure your seams meet accurately and things will fall in place like they should!!
I like to take the time to tack a stitch instead of using pins when I am joining blocks together. A stitch is less likely to allow the fabric to move and pins don't always keep the fabric in place well enough when you are matching seams. I tack everywhere 2 seams meet and at the ends where the seam will go through. If you place your tacks where the seam will go through you don't have to take them back out and you don't have to mess with pins.
Keep up the good work!! Your blocks are looking great!!
08-31-2009, 10:05 PM
#24
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Salem Iowa
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Originally Posted by bearisgray
Originally Posted by Rhonda
Your blocks are terrific looking!
The best advice I would give anyone of any level of experience is to pay attention to making sure your seams are straight and even. Whatever size your seam allowance is if your seams are at all crooked it will show in the finished size of your blocks. Also pay close attention to making sure your seams meet accurately and things will fall in place like they should!!
I like to take the time to tack a stitch instead of using pins when I am joining blocks together. A stitch is less likely to allow the fabric to move and pins don't always keep the fabric in place well enough when you are matching seams. I tack everywhere 2 seams meet and at the ends where the seam will go through. If you place your tacks where the seam will go through you don't have to take them back out and you don't have to mess with pins.
Keep up the good work!! Your blocks are looking great!!
The best advice I would give anyone of any level of experience is to pay attention to making sure your seams are straight and even. Whatever size your seam allowance is if your seams are at all crooked it will show in the finished size of your blocks. Also pay close attention to making sure your seams meet accurately and things will fall in place like they should!!
I like to take the time to tack a stitch instead of using pins when I am joining blocks together. A stitch is less likely to allow the fabric to move and pins don't always keep the fabric in place well enough when you are matching seams. I tack everywhere 2 seams meet and at the ends where the seam will go through. If you place your tacks where the seam will go through you don't have to take them back out and you don't have to mess with pins.
Keep up the good work!! Your blocks are looking great!!
09-01-2009, 04:31 AM
#26
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Alturas, CA
Posts: 9,393
Your blocks look great and you have learned and will learn lots of ways to do more than one thing. Great advice and I love starch, I cut strips and such, with the selvage edge(lengthwise) and I don't have the "elbow" problem. Keep on quilting, you're doing great.
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