Assembling Pieces for a Quilt

Part of the Video Series Advanced Quilting Techniques

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Tips for joining quilt squares. Learn how to put together the pieces of a quilt in this free quilting lesson from a crafts expert.

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Assembling Pieces for a Quilt
What we are going now is setting this part of this block together. This is just part of the block. We will make it larger as we go along. But we need to lay it out and I laid mine out like the book shows. I put my. We are going to have to square this up because this is bigger than this is. We are going to have to square this up so going to have to let me get my ruler again. These are going to need to be, let me see what this size is. Going to need to be 2 inch square. So what we do with that is we take this diagonal line, which is a 45 degree and we lay it on here and we can straighten this up now. This kind of got crooked on us when we were sewing it. Straighten that up, get those edges off. Sometimes they do turn it around like this and get it on 2 1/2.

About the Expert

Expert: Elva Gentry has been quilting for more than 50 years. She has appeared on television shows and gives classes in quilting for beginners up to advanced students at Miss Mable’s Village in Tennessee. Read More