Help! I pin and my blocks shift
#32
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All of the hints everyone has given you are great. Sometimes when I am trying to match corners or whatever where I want it to be perfect, I do my best pinning tricks and then just sew 4 or 5 stitches across the intersection instead of the entire seam. Then I open it up to check it. As you said sometimes even with our best pinning, the blocks still shift. This way if it has shifted I only have those 4 or 5 stitches to remove. If it's perfect when I check, then I go back and sew up the rest of the seam. This is a trick I was taught back in the days of making our own clothes, but it surely helps in quilting too.
#33
Hope I can explain this properly. Match up your seams by putting a pin right through both of the seams from top to bottom, once and leave it kinda dangling there....Then put a pin on either side of this, in the usual manner. By using that first pin and having it perpendicular to the fabric, you don't shift the seams by trying to put it down through the fabric. After you anchor with the two pins on either side of the one that's dangling there, you can remove that first pin and sew. It helps me.
#34
Originally Posted by Shandy
Hope I can explain this properly. Match up your seams by putting a pin right through both of the seams from top to bottom, once and leave it kinda dangling there....Then put a pin on either side of this, in the usual manner. By using that first pin and having it perpendicular to the fabric, you don't shift the seams by trying to put it down through the fabric. After you anchor with the two pins on either side of the one that's dangling there, you can remove that first pin and sew. It helps me.
#36
Originally Posted by pookie ookie
When seams match up exactly, I use Clover Fork Pins. You can see what they look like here:
http://www.amazon.com/Clover-Fork-Pi...6449121&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Clover-Fork-Pi...6449121&sr=8-1
#38
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Originally Posted by aileenlenzi
I had the BEST quilt teacher when I first learned to quilt. Besides looking at those sites, there is one other tip that is not mentioned. I iron one seam one way and the other seam the other way and then when I go to place the two seams together "you feel for the two seams to butt up together" then pin the seams on either side. It takes a little practice but I guarantee you will see that you have perfectly matching seams every time! Hope this helps.
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