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I am making a four-square quilt and find I am getting the four squares together okay but once I have joined several to make a row by using sashing in between blocks I find that the rows don't line up well. So from one row to the next the blocks are slightly off. I am trying hard to keep my seams uniform but they must be off a little. Or I wasn't quite as precise in cutting the sashing strips as I thought I was. I am being good about pressing at each stage - block to block and pair to pair and then the rows but still there is that skew that develops as I go along. I think the next quilt will be a quilt-as-you-go one that comes in a kit. If I can learn that technique, I may make several that way. Then I think I'll use up more scraps and short strips to make random diagonals that then get cut into whatever size square I decide to work with. The ones I have seen done that way don't have any sashing. The squares are sewen together to the size desired and either finished by using the pillowcase method or by binding after the quilting is done.
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Aug. 4th, 2009 08:22 pmStill hot (another >100) and still dry (no rain that counts in over a month). Finished another small quilt (36 by 40 or so). Have some panels to work on, then want to try a bigger four square and strip pattern. Have lots of pieces of fabric and strips so may do a random pattern. The last four have been made by taking 4 squares (6.5 in) made into a bigger square, then cut into 4 triangles. The triangles were sorted into 2 identical stacks and then 4 triangles were sown together to make an 8 inch square. I still need to work on getting all my joining seams the same size as when I am done my squares aren't all the same size. Then when i put the sashing in the squares don't line up the way they should.
