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I have been learning a lot from you guys...I am currently working on a star baby quilt M*QC style. Do I square up before or after I snowball...or both? my first try at this new passion was a chevron...I didn't square up until the end....maybe that was a goof, but it seemed to work, maybe because I did a whole row at a time? Your help is very appreciated. thanks.
You can square up as many times as possible. I found I really needed to do it after snowballing.
I'm struggling with this myself, and hopefully someone with more experience will chime in.
I've done a couple of quilts, and sashed each block, and then squared off each. But of late, I've squared off the block before sashing. OVERKILL? I I'm a smidge off a point, I usually let it ride...
Do tell.
BTW, I'm not about to enter a quilt in the county fair to be judged...
I try and square them just a bit as I go.
To knew to offer advice but I am waiting to here from additional experienced quilters.
I square off before sashing. Sashing is pretty easy to get accurate, so if the block is square, you can sash and move on.Quote:
Originally Posted by New York Sue
I don't know how experienced you want, I've made 30 or more quilts.
I square up when all block are done before I sash. If you have any that turned out smaller then I square up to that measurement. I try not to trim during because that has messed me up with points before. If I square up blocks with points I put the ruler where I can see how 1/4 for the point will be if I take on down to 1/8 I'm careful when I sew, hope that made sense.
I square just before sashing if I square at all. Not real big on doing that most of the time. I can usually get things together pretty good with a little wiggle here, and a little wiggle there.
I square up the block after it has been made. However I'm curently working on a quilt made with a jelly roll and with the pattern I'm doing I'm squaring up a tiny bit with each row I put on the block. It's similar to a log cabin and the jelly roll strips are not all even so when I put the next strip along the edge of the previous one to sew it wasn't always a straight edge.
Thanks ladies!
LOL...sounds like what I doQuote:
Originally Posted by auntiemern
Marilyn, I do the same thing...all the time...not great at squaring up unless it is 1/2 triangles or 1/4 triangles...those I cut bigger and trim down to size....much easier on the frustration level!
I'm with Marilyn and Shirley and I also want to say welcome to the forum, wackyaunt3! Hope to see more of you along with some of your quilts!
I've turned into a "square up as I go" person. I find that it's easier to do that and have them all the same, before sashing, and end up with a better finished piece. My cutting mat is close to my machine and ironing board, so when I get up to press the last seam in a block, it's easy to swing by the cutting mat and plop it down to check it, and square it up if needed.
I used to not square as I went, and boy it only takes a little off here and a little off there to end up with some fullness in places where squares were just a tad too big, or worse yet, open seams in places where squares were a tiny bit too small and didn't get caught all the way in the seam when sewing. :(