![]() It happens, but I’d rather do that before I start, if possible. Of course, sometimes you just have to change out your blade during the process. ![]() Rulers and rotary cutters are the same way. If you use the marking on your cutting mats, they may be marked differently on different mats and that can account for a difference in your sewing. If I’m going to change anything, I change it before I start, if I can help it. I use the same ruler, mats and rotary cutter for the whole process. Staying consistent during the entire process, makes a huge difference in my accuracy. If I don’t starch before, and I decide to starch during the construction, I find that sometimes it can really mess with my sizing and that just isn’t fun when you end up with different sized blocks. If I starch before, I can usually successfully starch during the construction as well. I like to starch/steam or use sizing (whatever your preference is here) BEFORE I cut my fabric out. I do this before I press my seams for each row. Your blocks may look different but this is the basic method I use each time I am sewing blocks and even quilt tops together. I thought I’d take pictures along the way to share. I’m working on my block for this week’s Layer Cake Sampler Quilt Along that my sweet friend Amanda of Material Girl is hosting. So lets start with a row of four half square triangles put together. I suggest reading through it all once before you try it, because peppered throughout is a lot of back story to why I do it the way I do. Let’s call this “The Anjeanette way of putting seams together and matching points.” Ok? There are a whole lotta words about to happen with some pictures thrown in. Maybe you have another method that works better for you. Maybe your seams and points are already perfect. They are just things that I trial and error have taught me. I like pretty, heart fluttering, practically perfect points.Īnyway, I thought I’d share some of my tips that I’ve learned along the way. And don’t get me wrong, sometimes they are still real poo. I know when I first really took a real dive into quilting as I do now, my seams were not perfectly matched and my points were poo. So my sewing start is that of a different nature than just starting out quilting in the sense that I do now. I also did more clothing construction that quilt making. When I was a little girl, my quilting mostly consisted of making plain patchwork and then tying them off. But when I do, my heart goes pitter pat and the butterflies make me a little dizzy with happiness. It isn’t that I’ve always been able to do this. But for some reason, it makes my insides all a flutter when I make a nice point and match my seams. But really, nothing can be further from the truth. When I say this and then explain how I do this, you may think I’m a little OCD or particular. It makes me all excited when I do this and then look at the nice points and matched seams. I LOVE to match up my seams as nicely as I can. Ok so there is no doubt, I love making pretty points when sewing my blocks together.
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