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Strip Sets for making my blocks for my
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.
:-)
