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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Four Blocks Finished

In my last post I mentioned being four blocks short
for the Log Cabin Quilt I am making.
Even though I had counted the blocks several times,
I hadn't made enough for the quilt.
After looking everywhere the blocks could have been,
and not finding the missing blocks
I realized I would have to make four more.





They went together pretty quickly, since I was only making four!
They are finished and ready to be added to the rows.

As I was getting ready to sew these blocks into rows,
I was worried about getting them turned or in the wrong place.
I had laid the quilt out on the floor and picked the blocks up in
piles of each individual row.

Then I remembered that I had these pins...




These were purchased years ago and sure come
in handy when sewing big quilts together.
I used pins to keep the squares in the right order
while sewing them into to rows.
I also put a pin with the row number into each 
sewn row, so they won't get in the wrong order.




No one wants a log cabin quilt
with out of whack rows!

Now I can begin sewing the rows together
and finish this top.

Happy Quilting!

5 comments:

Sara said...

I use those numbered pins all the time. It's a great way to keep the rows organized. Your log cabin quilt will be beautiful.

Libby in TN said...

Glad those extra blocks went together so quickly for you. When sewing rows I put a pin, any pin, in the upper left corner of the lefthand block to keep blocks oriented correctly.

Julie said...

The pins are wonderful. I have a different version, but same idea. Sometimes I think I will take a shortcut and not use them, big mistake! I'm glad you got the extra blocks together! If you ever find the other blocks you could always make a pillow!

Vicki in MN said...

Glad they went together quickly, I'll just bet you have the top completed already!! I can see how those pins would be very helpful.

Needled Mom said...

Oh gosh....wrong order blocks could end up with a major undo quickly. That is going to be a gorgeous quilt.