Hi Guys, Well, I am about 2/3 of the way through assembling that R/W/B autumn pallet quilt. I decided that, since it's square, I would assemble it the way someone on Simply Quilts mentioned -- Mary Ellen Hopkins I think but can't remember. Anyway, instead of doing the regular sewing of blocks into long strips and then sewing the strips together, I would sew the blocks into bigger blocks and then sew *those* together. The quilt is going to be 71" square and is made of 8" (finished size) blocks
-- 9 across and 9 down. Basically, I sewed the blocks into 9 patch units and then sewed those together. I sewed the upper left "9 patch to the upper center one and set that aside. Then I sewed the middle left unit to the middle center unit. The best part so far is that I have only had to sew across two seams! I sewed the middle section to the upper section and I only had to sew across 5 seams ONE time and I have a quilt top that is 6 blocks across and 6 blocks down! Next step was to sew the upper right unit together and the middle right unit together and then sew the two of them together. Again -- only 2 seams to match up and sew across!!! Finally, I sewed that unit to the large quilt top and again had only 5 seams to sew across! To finish, I will sew the bottom three units, put them together and then sew that section to the larger section. Putting the units together involves sewing across 2 seams. Assembling the quilt this way doesn't get "bad" until I put that final section on the larger one. Then and ONLY then will I have to sew across 8 seams. Just ONE time sewing across all those seams -- HOORAY!!!!!! doing it the old way would have meant EIGHT rows of sewing across EIGHT seams. I DO like this assembly method -- just seems to make the whole thing go so much easier with all that sewing done over just 2 seams :-)))!!! CiaoMeow >^;;^< PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their WHISKERS!! Nothing is complete without a few cat hairs!