Lay the batting on top of the taped-down quilt back, and move your hands across it to smooth it all over. Also, make sure the right side of the fabric is facing down! Make sure the back it taped taut, but not stretched. As you tape the back to the surface, you’ll want to make sure the fabric is smooth, without wrinkles. On a large floor area or with two tables pushed together, use masking or painter’s tape to tape down the backing fabric. You need to sandwich the top and back with the batting in the middle. I refer to layering the quilt as “sandwiching”. It’s a flimsy because you haven’t yet added the 3 B’s to your quilt – batting, backing, and binding! Now that you have your quilt top sewn together, it’s time to finish it! Some people call the completed quilt top a flimsy, and I really like this term. Now that you have the pieced rows pressed, sew them together! Rows all get pressed in one direction, either towards the top or towards the bottom. This method of pressing distributes the bulk, which will make you happy when machine quilting your project! Bulky seams can lead to bumpy quilting patterns, broken thread, and overall unevenness of your machine-quilted quilt top. Continue to rotate the pressing direction of each row until you have the seams of all rows pressed. Press the seams of the second row in the opposite direction. Be careful to just “press” and NOT “iron” the seams in a back-and-forth motion.īegin by pressing the seams of the first row all in one direction. I wait to press the 7-block rows until I have each of the 8 rows sewn together. ![]() I always have to make sure to sew the squares together in the order I had arranged them, referring to my picture if I mess up. Begin stitching squares together (right sides facing) to complete each row.
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