Help Please with "on point" blocks
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Help Please with "on point" blocks
I,m doing on point blocks for the first time. I,m making a table runner.
My question is, when you bring the point of your square and the triangles
together to sew, I,m getting lumps or puckering.
Is there a trick to doing this?
Thanks in advance.
My question is, when you bring the point of your square and the triangles
together to sew, I,m getting lumps or puckering.
Is there a trick to doing this?
Thanks in advance.
#2
Can you post a picture? There shouldn't be pickers. I just imagine what's wrong without seeing what you're doing. Sorry. I'll look back to see if you can get a photo up. Maybe someone else can figure it out.
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Perhaps your setting triangles are the wrong size? I made a quilt and put the blocks on point. I used Bonnie Hunter's guide to figure out the correct size for my setting & corner triangles. http://quiltville.com/onpointmath.shtml
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I always make my blocks a little bigger than the pattern calls for. your outside edge should be straight of grain. I normally sew any bias edge on the bottom to allow the feet to feed the fabric thru the sewing machine correctly. Learned that from Eleanor Burns.
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