Day 7: My imperfect seams

For all of those who think my stuff is always perfect, here's my latest re-do's.

This one is 1/8th of an inch off on the center seam.

This one resulted from a edge getting folded by the feed dogs. To fix this, I just snipped the fabric enough to make it lay down when I ironed it. The machine quilting will keep it from unraveling.

I have a strategy for dealing with imperfect seams... if I re-do something and do it wrong a second time, I leave it messed up to keep myself from becoming frustrated and focused on one little slip-up that most people won't see.

I, so far, have had to re-do only 3 seams. One didn't get any better the second time and I had two little slip-ups that I just let go because they weren't bad enough to warrant doing them over again.

Day 7: Sew and Press, sew and press..

Today after my in-laws left, I started piecing the quilt top. I had to move the operation into the living areas of the house. My sewing machine is set up on the kitchen table, the ironing board in the guest room and I haven't moved the cutting stuff yet but will need to soon.

I started off by joining the 6.5" x 6.5" blocks (chain stitching) to their corresponding 6.5" x 6.5" blocks.

Next, I set the seams by pressing them...

folded the two blocks open and pressed again. Then, pin'em up... sew and press again until you have all the pieces sewn together into a quilt top.