How to Use Velum in Your Log Cabin Quilt

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JEANETTE WHITE: Hi. This is Jeanette White for Expert Village. And today, we're going to be doing a log cabin doing paper piecing style. So I've already prepared this and it is printed on to velum. Now, I like velum because it's easy to see through and you can tear it away easily. You really can use any paper you want but I happen to like velum. And we're going to flip it over and the fabric is going to go on the back. Now, the beginning square, I have cut about three quarters of an inch to an inch bigger than what this square is here. And if we measure this square, it is measuring at two inches so I have cut this square right here 2-1/2, and I could have cut it 2-3/4. You don't have to be all that accurate as long as you've got quarter-inch seam allowances. So I'm going to put a little bit of fabric-glue stick. Now, don't use office-glue stick for this because it will turn your fabric brown and it won't come out. And then I'm going to center my first piece here. Traditionally, log cabin had a center piece that was either black or red to signify the heart of the home but we can do anything we want. Now, I'm going to take my very first strip and I'm going to locate strip B, which is right here. Oh, excuse me, right here, I'm looking at it backwards. And I'm going to take my piece right here and I'm going to put right sides together, and I'm going to line that with my row edges right here. Then, I'm going to get pins and I'm going to pin it from the inside out through all the layers and the paper. Now, I'm going to flip this over. I'm going to go to my machine and I'm going to stitch right along this line right here. It's between A and B. And I'm going to back up about a quarter of an inch behind it, and I'm going to stitch right along that line, and I'm going to end a quarter of an inch over it and then I'm going to remove it. Now, if you were making a whole quilt, you do this assembly line. So you might be doing 50 or 60 sheets in this particular step right here. In our next segment, we will be pressing this down, trimming it and adding our next strip.

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