Another advantage to back stitching a few stitches is to keep the fabric from being shoved into the hole in the plate by the needle. Start your stitching about 1/4 inch (or even a tad more!)in from the edge of the fabric, reverse to the edge of the fabric and then stitch forward and complete the seam. This also only gives you two rows of stitching if you do need to un-sew the area. At the far end of the fabric back stitch about 1/4 in. and then stop and cut the thread. Again, only two layers of stitching to un-sew if necessary.

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

On Sunday, August 10, 2014 10:30:38 AM UTC-5, wrote:
Hello Quilters

I need to make a correction on the Garden quilt top. I was saying 12 half squares when I should of been saying flying geese in each block. I was thinking flying geese but saying half-squares. Sorry about that. Has anyone else done this before, saying one thing but meaning something else?? Oh well, there will always be days like that.

Been taking my time sewing the blocks together which takes little over hour and 15 minutes for each block. What takes so much time is my tying all those strings. I now have 9 out of 30 blocks done. I am slow like a turtle but will make it to the finish line eventually. Laughing here.

Sandy$ in Idaho