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Before I went to a class I was doing a project that the pattern had you quilting on the go, but I decided not to do that. The project was 9 inch churn dash blocks, made into 13 inch squares with setting triangles, then joined in a 3 by 4 grid, I'd made all the big squares but was having great trouble joining them into strips, because inaccuracies had built up. So now, I've started ripping various hems, I'm going to have to be careful not to fuss too much and just make the best of a bad job, but I figure if I go back to the original churn dash block, square them up, then quilt each block (added bonus as I was going to have to piece the backing anyway, I can now do that easily). The instructions have you quilting the block before you add the setting triangles, then adding them with a seam through all layers, then squaring up the result.

Joining in to strips is acheived by putting two blocks and a binding strip together and sewing through the whole lot, which could be challenging, there doesn't seem to be an awful lot of room under my walking foot, so this could be where it all goes belly up. My original reading for not wanting to do it this way was the hand stitched bindings, but I've discovered I'm really not bothered by that, even enjoy it!

I figure the only way I'll get this project done is to have it in small bits! I'd have been very frustrated with the result if I'd actually managed to get the top together and then it would likely never have been quilted!

Any tips? I've only seen this method mentioned once, in this particular book, never anywhere else, but it seems to be quite a promising one, I'm never going to acheive fantastic results for quilting with my machine.

Cheers

Anne

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Anne Rogers
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one tip, check if your machine will allow your to slightly release the presser foot. mine does for darning. i've got an 27yr old singer touch and sew, the kind that have cams you drop in the top for various stitches, if that means anything to ya. there is a door above the presser foot that opens out to the left, revealing the innards of the thingy going up and down, also houses the needle threader. in there is also the pressure release for the presser foot. that will still work with the walking foot but gives you a wee bit more room under the foot. oh yea and my foot will also lift a wee bit extra for the room you'd need in this case too. it must be on a spring so returns to normal position so you can then lower the foot as usual. oh dear, clear as mud, eh, and you might not even have one of them so i'm babbling on bout nutt'n. fwiw, jeanne

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nzlstar*

That is exactly how I do most of my quilts simply because they don't take much space to do them that way. I don't have a place to lay out any large quilts and this way I can get them done faster as well.

I don't have any problem sewing through all the bulk now that I have changed the plan a bit and trimmed back the batting to the seam allowance BEFORE I sew the quilted squares and binding all together. then I simply trim back the seams just a bit and fold over the doublefold binding and hand stitch. I really enjoy making quilts this way as far as utility quilts go because they are fast, they keep me doing different things instead of getting bored with just one task and they are still well loved and washed and loved some more. I have found they stand up very well. I haven't had to fix one yet.

I have a small book that showed me how and it was called something like Log Cabin Quilt as you go or something......... don't have the book handy. It is from a series apparently along the lines of "quilting for those who don't have time to quilt".

~KK in BC~

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~KK in BC~

Whenever you have the situation where you have more layers than usual, Anne, try using your walking foot. It really does help keep the layers in their correct place without too much moving relative to one another. . In message , Anne Rogers writes

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Patti

thanks everyone, I took some of your tips! I trimmed my batting first, so I only had 6 layers to go through most of the time, that was a good tip! It's easy to reduced the pressure on the presser foot on my machine, just turn a dial, so I did that too. I wouldn't have even attempted this without a walking foot, I'm not that mad, but I did find that I could get the bundle under the foot easier if from the raised position, I raised it a little more by lifting the lever, that seemed to just give me enough extra space to ease it under.

I've put one strip together and on this one, the points all meet nicely, I know they won't some other places unfortunately :-( there was one block that just would not square up well and although I'm going to manage to hide one bad point in the binding, one of them will have to be joined to another row :-(. But if that's the only problem I encounter I'll be really chuffed, I thought this quilt would never get finished!

Anne

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Anne Rogers

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