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Thank you

Thank you so much!

The great thing about all this is that you don't have to have an expensive machine to make a beautiful quilt! Or tote, or baby blanket, or pot holders or...well, you get the picture! Many things are possible without an "AI" machine!

That's just not right. I have been sewing since I was 10. That's over almost 60 years. I have used every thing from a cheep Sears Kenmore I got for my 12th birthday, to my Mother's beautiful fancy Singer to an inexpensive Singer of my own to make my kids school clothes and so on and so forth. It isn't the machine that makes the sewer, it is the person behind the machine. Practice makes better but that's true with every thing. If you are a cook, I bet the first time you made gravy it may not have been perfect but if you have been cooking a long time I bet it is by now, The same way with sewing. Beth drives me crazy not ironing! For real! But I love watching her so I just pretend she does it to annoy me. She makes some beautiful things and she is so calm isn't she? I'm rapid fire all the time. My husband says I make him tired just watching me. I iron EVERYTHING! More than once. I think it makes my seams more percise, but hey, I get to sew my way and Beth gets to sew her way and you my friend can sew your way. We each be ourselves and all still be friends. Good luck with your sewing. Need help,ask me.

You can do it! I have 2 machines, one a heavy duty inexpensive singer and a janome. The expensive janome spends so much time in the shop because it's so sensitive. So I spend a lot of time on the Singer. There's something to be said for simple!

I made pillows, quilts, drapes, etc., with a regular machine. You don’t need a digital machine. Nice but not necessary.

I'm the same no fancy sewing machine, and learner too,

Thank you

thank you so much🙂

You are so welcome!

🙂 Thanks for the encouragement. I enjoy making them.

I think the fabric placement gives that impression

you're welcome!🙂

Sorry it was not clear. The FIRST seam is a partial seam. The other three are complete. After getting all four pieces on you complete that first seam. Hope that helps.

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching!

Happy sewing!

thank you so much. Happy sewing!

I will try and answer that question soon in an upcoming video🙂

You're so encouraging. Thank you!

Yes. It's an older video - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZqOewj07hNE.html

@@bethshibleyquilts Thank you love your square dance tutorial!

I pressed strips after joining before cutting chunks

music is from my editing program. 🙂

@@bethshibleyquilts - So you have no idea of who the artist is or the name of the musical score?

It is from iMovie. I had to go back and check. The song is Nuestra casa. That is all the info it gives. Hope that helps.

@@bethshibleyquilts - Great! Thanks for going to the trouble to get this information. I'm hoping to find an album of this kind of music to have as background music while I'm sewing. 😀

Do you mean precut? I chose fabrics from my fabric cupboard that were reds and blues to make the first block shown. Happy sewing!

@@bethshibleyquilts I'm sorry, I meant prewash the fabrics! I have had some very good reds that have run in the wash.

@@gfrosie5997 Sometimes I DO prewash...but not always. It IS good insurance against running, though.

It is a small "fiskars" rotary blade tool. I use it all the time!

I pressed after sewing strips and then after constructing blocks

I would make a paper mock-up of my idea and then, make a trial block out of scraps before doing anything with my jelly rolls. I once cut up a whole quilt's worth of fabric without making the sample block only to discover there was an error in the pattern I was using. I would also guess that you might want to go up to a 4 1/2" square in the middle to keep the same proportions/balance as Beth is using. Using your paper mock-up you can make it both ways and find which one you like the best.

Thank you so much. I will definitely mock it up first. Great advice!

You can...but the blocks will be VERY big. It's amazing what 1" will add. 😉

Thanks for the response! I wasn’t thinking about that! I guess that would be a giant square!

11 1/2" unfinished

2 yards of blues and 2 yards of reds for twin size👌

3 1/2”

Center square is 3 1/2”