Assembling The Top

Partially Assembled

On-point blocks get sewn together along the diagonal with the end triangles attached to the side of the adjacent block. So what emerges are the quilt edges.

I have to work from one corner to the diagonally opposite one, one strip at a time, making sure I’ve pressed the “matching” seams to the opposite side from the previous row. You’d think it would be possible to work from one corner to the middle, from the other corner to the middle and join the two pieces – but you could find you’ve got the nesting seams pressed wrong! So better to start in one corner and keep going, even though you have to work with the increasing bulk of the growing top!

Another possible pitfall – the one I fell into – was to attach the last row in the wrong direction so the colour flow I wanted didn’t happen! I had to rip that seam, carefully, rotate the row and resew it. You can see, I’m checking position of the next row before sewing it!

I hope to have this assembled in about an hour…

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