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Re: How to handle multiple seams when hand piecing - 12 Apr 2011 14:43 #62176

gloucestershirelady OFFLINE Posts: 228	Thanks Agnes and Margo - I'll have a look at that link, thanks!
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Re: How to handle multiple seams when hand piecing - 12 Apr 2011 13:57 #62171

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gloucestershirelady wrote:

Has anybody please got any tips for coping with multiple seams, such as the centre of a star? I find it very difficult to get the seams to match really well, despite trying to be really accurate. I am hand piecing - small klosjes (spool) blocks - so I have got 8 seams meeting where I join the blocks together!

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Re: How to handle multiple seams when hand piecing - 12 Apr 2011 13:19 #62167

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Hope I can offer some help. When I hand piece, if any angles involved, I piece only the seam to the joining point, not to the end of the seam. Then I can press the seams and the little points as they fall. I mark my seam lines on the back side and line up my needle with thread through the seam intersecting points. I also do the same at the end of the seam line holding that point in place with a pin.

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How to handle multiple seams when hand piecing - 12 Apr 2011 12:41 #62164

gloucestershirelady OFFLINE Posts: 228	Has anybody please got any tips for coping with multiple seams, such as the centre of a star? I find it very difficult to get the seams to match really well, despite trying to be really accurate. I am hand piecing - small klosjes (spool) blocks - so I have got 8 seams meeting where I join the blocks together!
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