Check Your Seam Allowance!!!

still need to be sewn and trimmed

Yesterday morning I took a little time and headed into my sewing room to work on my sister Kathlene's quilt blocks. Ever since I put those few test blocks together I have been itching to get more done. My next step was to add all of the little triangles onto the triangle in a square blocks. I did get through all of the blocks and had added the triangles to three sides before I realized that I had my 1/4" seam allowance set incorrectly.

The last time I used my sewing machine I had made a paper pieced block and had removed my seam guide. When I was finished I put the seam guide back on the machine but didn't check the accuracy and it was off just slightly. You wouldn't think it would make much of a difference but because I am adding so many pieces (and seam allowances) that it is enough to make a big difference.

I do have small marks on the machine bed for the seam guide alignment but I still have to double check because the smallest deviation makes the blocks come out all wonky. Even with trimming the blocks are not exactly as they should be and I hope it doesn't affect how they will look in the finished block.

trimmed

It is funny (not really) but the other day I was reading Audrey's blog Quilty Folk and she talked about how time consuming it was to trim blocks and I commented that I found trimming blocks to be very tedious. Well, guess what I am doing....ugh!

I watched some of Bonnie Hunter's quilt cam last night while I sewed more blocks and did some trimming. I am doing them in smaller batches so that I don't get too overwhelmed.