As you read the following paragraph, you may start wondering what you are going to do with the piece you just removed from a loop. It is just a scrap to be used in another project, or it can be used to create a full sequence of the fabrics into a strip to be used on the back or to replace a problem unpicked loop. Now that you don't need to worry about that, here are the final directions for the Trip Around the World quilt.
For the bottom half of the quilt, you don’t want duplicate pieces at the center of the quilt (the horizontal center row). Look at the bottom color of the first, left hand strip. Unpick this color totally out of one tube segment. This has created a strip for the bottom half of the first row which you now sew to the top half strip with the fabrics in mirror image and re-hang it on the design wall. Do this for all strips.
In this post, 4th photo, shows where to unpick.
This post shows progress unpicking bottom half strips.
Here is another post with all loops unpicked and top partially sewn.
One more partially unpicked bottom half.
When
all of the top half and bottom half of strips are sewn together you will now
sew seams from top to bottom to complete your top. Take your time and make the intersections match. If you followed the pressing technique, seams should be going opposite directions at every intersection. Ease or stretch as necessary to make them match. You may want to sew groups of 5 -10 long columns together
several times and then join them to have less bulk at once at your
machine. All seams are now pressed one
direction across the quilt. Staystitch
outside edge before adding border.
The only thing I didn't explain in this tutorial is how to choose the fabrics, and what order to put them in. I will probably have a post called Trip Around the World tutorial 1 A. I think I will be able to make it post in order between 1 and 2 or before 1.
I'm happy to answer emails with questions you might have. My email address is on the right sidebar.
2 comments:
The links to your previous posts have been extremely helpful in visualizing how to make a TAW…..and it has been fun reading those posts in their entirety.
The time it has taken to write your tutorial is a feat in itself. So detailed just like your quilt. It’s going to be another of your stunning tops.
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