This may be a dumb question but . . . .
#3
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Yes, Bonnie Hunter has a whole book on them. I believe she cuts her leftover scraps into uniform sizes. She then uses these spare pieces at the beginning and ending of a regular strip pieced quilt row?
#5
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That's correct, that way you don't waste a lot of thread and it helps to feed the beginning of the fabric so it doesn't get stuffed down into the machine when you start to sew.
#6
I cut scraps in 2 1/2 inch squares then I sew a light to a dark then I sew 2 together for a row when I have enough for 4 rows I sew them into a block. I start and end my sewing doing these . Often I will en up with enough to make a block while putting a regular block together. The one i am doing now is separated by navy sashing and will post a pic if I ever figure out how. Iuse 16 squares for these scrappy blocks.
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don't overlook the longarm leaders.... we use canvas attached to the machine frame to pin our quilts to inorder to produce tension and control the quilt backing and top...
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