Strip Piecing

Strip Sets for making my blocks for my

Scrappy Heart Swap Started Here

Right now I have to make about 10 blocks to send.

Since these will be in different quilts they will look scrappy

even thought I made the constructions easier 

by breaking the pattern down into strip sets.

Here are my pieces. 

I sewed 6 four strip units and 2 two strip units

and cut them into 2.5" strip sets. 

I carefully pressed to nest and chain sewed.

Here are the four block units I made.

Sewed into two units.

Finished block.

Here is the back of my pressed block.

There are a lot of seams in this block.

Even with careful measuring and sewing to make my seams all an accurate 1/4" 

and careful pressing to make sure no fabric was left in the seams,

this is just barely a 12.5" block.

I will be adjusting my needle in future blocks to allow a few more threads in the seams

to make the blocks a smidge larger.

I am not a fan of "scant" quarter inch seams but this block requires it.

The pattern calls for more white background fabric between the blocks

so a minimal size variation should not be an issue

but I like to get my blocks to be the correct even size.

I do love the block pattern though and am looking forward 

to making and sending and receiving the swap blocks.

Looking forward to making the quilt, too.

:-)