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I love your comments about the fabrics and how they bring back memories. Before my mother passed, my mother and I made scrappy quilts for my children using up (some of) her stash of remnants and scraps. Those quilts contained fabrics that were used by my mother and grandmother to make clothes for me when I was young that I still remember and even fabrics from aprons my grandmother always wore. I've always like the look of these braided quilts. I'm putting one on my list of projects to consider for the future. Too many UFO's to start one now! Great tutorial and project idea as usual.
I now have a laser guide on my sewing machine to complete this task. Before that I used a walking foot that had an adjustable guide bar. Most walking feet come with a guide bar but I think most people don't even know what it is for.
If you press with steam, the layer cake squares and charm squares will shrink in one direction, but not the other. So your layer cake squares will measure 10” x 9.?” and your charm squares will measure5” x 4.?”. This can cause trouble when sewing the blocks together. This can be avoided by pressing with a dry iron.
Yes it's not a frugal use of fabric, but it does make for a quick quilt! For those who aren't fans of cutting it's a great hack. I'd rather be able to use up two sets of precuts from my stash... Which is a considerable stash 🤣💖🐝happy sewing!
@@margaretduffy1360 oh I have no idea 🤣 I was an accountant for 25 years prior to shifting to quilt shop owner. Tool identification is not my strong suit but hey, I'll buy that! 🤣😘👍🐝
Yes but for those who aren't fans of cutting it's a great hack. I'd rather be able to use up two sets of precuts from my stash... Which is a considerable stash🤣💖🐝
I totally agree with Sally. What purchases I make are very precious to me. Maybe because you have access to an abundance of expensive fabrics is not justified by wasting. Scraps are precious to me too. Wasting an entire charm pack is not in my budget. Another Ohioan❤
Clever. Who do you credit for the idea? You? If so please share that too. Very good for a child's first quilt pattern to make. Gives Good results and material is the focus.
I have no idea! I wish I did. I saw a demo online about a year and a half ago and a customer recently brought in a quilt that was sewn this way for me to longarm which prompted me to share it! I don't know who originally came up with this idea but it's genius. 💖🐝
@@thequiltingbeainteresting I just have one on the longarm and it's a pain in the a$$. Those junctions where the stitch lines meet and more bulky than they need to be and even with a glide foot the machine doesn't want to stitch over some of them. Just something people should be aware of
@@amandamaxwell3079 It may depend on the longarm maybe? Mine is a Gammill Statler and I had zero issues with mine or another customer's Square in a Square. But I can definitely see how it may be an issue depending on the bulk. One could always press seams open to reduce them a bit?
@@amandamaxwell3079 well I'm stumped! I wonder why I didn't have any issues? I didn't even go to a larger needle like I do for my collage quilts. I just kept it all standard and there were no issues. hmmmmm.....
Yay more Ohio quilters! Your video popped up this morning so I decided to check it out. I love this block. Your instructions are spot on! I look forward to seeing more in the near future! Have a great week!
Going to do this for my granddaughters 30th birthday memory quilt. Everyone wrote a message on a square. I'm printing her picture and will have that as a center block. I'm excited to do this.
TFS this great project! Ive seen a number of my quilting buddies with these!! But I'm wondering what do you do when the top is soiled/stained from starching, pressing, steaming on it over time?
What I did for our big pressing table at the top was recover it with another fabric. At SOME point I'll probably have to rip out staples and redo the whole thing but hoping not for at least two years!
