love 2 sew

What is your favorite way to keep the right fabrics in the right place as you piece them?
I just about have the blocks the way I want them on the design board but I've never really been able to piece them in an efficient manner.
Thank you for your ideas.
Joan

carolaug

I lay them all out on the floor. I tried the design board but I like them on the rug on my floor.

ManiacQuilter2

Have you seen the way that Eleanor Burns does it?? She stack them always sew them in a row. I prefer the good old take a scrap and place a number on it. I sometimes list thing as A1, A2 A3....... in a row and the next row gets B1, B2, B3. Great way to use small scraps cutting them into 1 inch squares.

Jo C

I make one blck to use as a reference. Then i stack all my pieces in the block pattern and chain stitch. The reference block helps me to be sure i get everything in the right place.

QuiltnNan

i have tried to do it EB's way, but have never been able to get it right

Stitchnripper

Love this thread. I have made so many mistakes from the floor or design wall or table to the machine. I can't seem to get a consistent system that is mostly foolproof. That is why I am Stitchnripper.

barny

Stitch, you're funny. I've been on the long-arm this afternoon. I'm thinking I'll have to take a lot of it out tomorrow afternoon. That's the story of my life.

Stitchnripper

Barny you are almost close enough that we could have "ripping parties"!!

NJ Quilter

I usually lay out the placement on my cutting table and stack everything. I then pin the maximum number of pieces I can and chain piece. Clip; set seams; press. Lay the block back out on my cutting table in the proper layout, stack again; pin max number of pieces again. Repeat as necessary.

Lori S

I pin a block number at the top left of each block. I then sew 1 to 2 and 3 to 4 and so on... I can keep them in order odd number on the bottom , even on the top. I make my stack before going to the sewing machine. I don't take the numbers off till the whole row is done. Then I mark the row number in the top left corner.