I set my ironing board right in front of the design wall and took down one row at a time, setting them in order on the board. I glued a thin line on the first piece, laid the second in place, pressed with a hot, dry iron, opened the second piece up, glue line on its edge and continued gluing all across the row. After gluing, I hung each strip row on the wall hanging vertically. After sewing the pieces, again chain piecing two rows at a time, I hung them on the other side of the design wall. No pins to fall out, just sew, everything laying absolutely on target. Now, I know it took time to glue them, but honestly, pinning and straightening have to take as long. I think I personally, was much more accurate with nothing slipping. I will pin the rows horizontally and not glue the seams then.
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| Seam in the middle of the photo is glued, ready for sewing |
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| Ironing board set in front of design wall, forgot to take photo when blocks were being glued |
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| Glued rows waiting for sewing, safety pin row numbers at top |
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| Two rows, individual pieces sewn in tandem, waiting for pinning to sew together |
4 comments:
A OBW is my next project. I know that I would get confused chain stitching the rows. Nice job. Gluing=good tip
I like the gluing idea, too. I am ready to lay mine out... I think I may try the gluing technique. I think these will be hard to do accurately if I don't. Great tip.
Elizabeth, you won't get confused. I have safety pins with row numbers on them and I send one row through, start to feed another, clip the back row and feed it in. There is only one possible row to feed it at a time.
I would do gluing again in a heartbeat.
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