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Nancy continues with the seventh tutorial for the Quilt As You Go Block By Block series. She refers to the book, Block by Block from Beth Donaldson. The book is out of print but you may be able find the book on Ebay or Amazon.
It's time to put the blocks together. It can be a bit of a confusing process but Nancy will try to go as slow as possible. It does help to have the book if you are able to find it.
The first thing to do is trim down the blocks. The blocks have been appli-quilted and quilted. Starting with a side of the block with sashing, take your ruler and measure a half inch from the sashing and trim. Continue measuring a half inch away from the sashing around the block and trim. Where there is no sashing, trim the extra off right next to the edge of the block. You may end up trimming off a little bit of the sashing, but that's okay. Continue trimming the rest of your blocks the half inch from the edge of the sashing and then up to the edge of the block where there is no sashing.
The next step is assembling the blocks. It takes a couple of steps to do this. First, separate the sashing from the batting and backing and flip it over. Move the batting and backing out of the way and use big needles to pin it back. Flip back over. Take a second block and place it on top of the first block matching edges where the backing and batting are pinned back. Use additional big pins to pin the edges together matching them as closely as possible. Ease in the sashing if it is sticking over the edge. Put in a lot of pins to hold the edges together especially if you are easing in some of the fabric.
Take the blocks to your sewing machine. Using a full quarter inch, instead of a scant quarter inch, start sewing the blocks together. Yep-you saw that correctly! Nancy sews right over the pins going nice and slow. She eases in the extra fabric to make sure the blocks stay close to the right size since they have already been quilted. Do a back stitch to secure the end of the sewing. Continue the same process to sew the next blocks together.
Use Marti Michell's fusible webbing or Heat Press Batting Together to hold the batting in place for all the next steps. Take the extra pins out. Flip the blocks over and open up the sections on the back. Pull a little on the right hand side and iron down the sashing on the block. On the opposite block, take the batting and pull it down from the backing. You'll need to trim the batting as evenly to the edge of the neighboring block as you can. Using the scissors with a slight curve cut away the extra batting up to the stitched edge of the other block. Once it is all trimmed, lay the fusible side down of the fusible webbing and iron in place. Take the backing and fold it under until it is just passed the stitching line and iron. The small busy multicolored pattern hides the seam. Using Roxanne Glue-Baste-It, Nancy places dots of glue, just inside the seam line. Then she presses the glue until it is dry.
She takes the blocks to the sewing machine and sews down the ledge right next to the large center block catching the seam on the back. The sewing quilts the blocks together. Continue quilting the sashing if you want to. Check the back to see if you caught the back seam while sewing next to the ledge. If you didn't, you can hand sew where you missed.
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