JudeWill

Ok. Now I'm confused. I have done the January blocks and they went together nicely, except for a little puckering. Are you all saying the Feb. and March blocks need to be pieced with scant 1/4" seams on all the seams? Also, please refresh my memory on what a scant 1/4" seam is. Thanks.

Havplenty

here are a few guides to help you. i hope one of these helps. my understanding of scant 1/4" is just on the other side of the 1/4" mark and i think that is the same thing that the jinny beyer tute is saying. good luck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSCBzwJ1lB4

http://quilting.about.com/od/machine..._allowance.htm

http://www.scrapquilts.com/accurate_seams.html

http://www.jinnybeyer.com/jinnys-cor...5ABFE737BAF506

memah24

If I remember right, there was a time limit that you could sign up for free. After that you have to pay for the class.

GrandmaSewNSew

The only thing I can think of is that your computer may need a clean out. I do mine weekly using (the free) ccleaner, then I do a search for "prefetch" and delete all of those items, run the usual control panel's disk cleanup, then reboot.

GrandmaSewNSew

I didn't find the site until February and saw that a lot of people complained that their blocks for February were too small. Others suggested that they needed to use a scant 1/4 inch (meaning not exactly 1/4 inch but a few threads short of that). For another block of the month that I'm doing I found that if I sewed the seams at exactly 1/4 inch they came out too small too. So when I made the February blocks, I used the scant 1/4 inch seam and mine came out to 12.5 as they should have.
I think each month I'll wait until I read what others have to say before jumping into the blocks in case there is a problem. Also, I'm not sure I'll do this month's yet as I may want to wait for more scraps.
It is a lot of fun and amazing to see how different the blocks look with different fabrics!!

katcox

This is the tutorial I'm using. So far so good.

noahscats7

No you don't pay. it's entirely free. So no false ad....ing here.

great aunt jacqui

i may do a catch up in a few months

GrandmaSewNSew

Judy,
I replied to you but somehow it didn't post...
I joined the group in February and read through some of the comments and found that some complained that their February blocks were too small. Those who said they used the scant 1/4 inch (a thread or two smaller than 1/4 inch) had no problems. So when I made my blocks I used a scant 1/4 inch (maybe 1/32 smaller) and they came out fine. I had this problem with another BOM that I belong to. When I made the seams exactly 1/4 inch, by the time the block was finished the block was too small too.
I'm going to wait each month to see how things go before doing the block even thought they're nice and it's difficult to wait. I'm not sure that I'll do this month's block yet as I'd rather see what scraps I have from the other blocks. It seems that this should have been one of the last blocks made.

ccthomas

I like your blue | yellow theme. I tried to follow colors in the family she used. But those are not my colors. I thought I needed to learn about color choices.