{"id":6319,"date":"2010-08-08T06:22:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T13:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2016-06-16T19:53:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T02:53:55","slug":"chunking-it-for-frances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/chunking-it-for-frances\/","title":{"rendered":"Chunking It – For Frances"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t started listening to the Off Kilter Quilter podcast<\/a>, I suggest that you go over and start right away!<\/p>\n

TFQ taught me this method of putting quilts together. I have adopted it as my own and use it for block quilts. Very occasionally I’ll put a long border on after the center of the quilt is complete, but otherwise I try to avoid the long seams required to put quilts together in rows.<\/p>\n

\"Step<\/a>
Step 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The basic idea is to put the quilt together as you would a block. Sew smaller pieces together to make larger pieces. I avoid sewing in rows as I think the quilt gets out of square if you sew it together in rows.<\/p>\n

\"Step<\/a>
Step 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This step makes a larger piece.<\/p>\n

\"Step<\/a>
Step 2A<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This will be for the bottom of Block 1 in the drawing in Step 2.<\/p>\n

\"Step<\/a>
Step 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This way of sewing a quilt together makes the pieces much easier to manage, because you are mostly handling smaller pieces.<\/p>\n

\"Optional<\/a>
Optional Step 3A<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can also divide the border into blocks (plan it that way as you make your quilt) so you can include border pieces as chunks.<\/p>\n

\"Optional<\/a>
Optional Step 3B<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You have to pay attention to what you do with the corners if you choose to add the borders this way. This technique works better if you are making a self bordering design.<\/p>\n

\"Step<\/a>
Step 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Refer to the drawing of your pieces in Step 1.<\/p>\n

\"Step<\/a>
Step 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Step<\/a>
Step 5A<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Step<\/a>
Step 5B<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You have to sew the bottom sashing + cornerstone to Block 3 and Block 4.<\/p>\n

\"<\/a>
Step 6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Step<\/a>
Step 7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You really need to do the two steps above before Step 5B2 even though my numbering is off. Sorry about that.<\/p>\n

\"Step<\/a>
Step 5B2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got a little ahead of myself in my drawing. Sew the sashing and the cornerstone to Block 2 and then sew Block 2 (with side and bottom sashing and one cornerstone) to Block 1 with all of it’s sashing.<\/p>\n

\"<\/a>
Step 7A<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The above step will make your next chunk.<\/p>\n

\"Step<\/a>
Step 8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After this first chunk, do the same things for the rest of the blocks in your quilt and keep putting chunks together into larger and larger pieces.<\/p>\n

Let me know if you have questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t started listening to the Off Kilter Quilter podcast, I suggest that you go over and start right away! TFQ taught me this method of putting quilts together. I have adopted it as my own and use it for block quilts. Very occasionally I’ll put a long border on after the center of … Continue reading “Chunking It – For Frances”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[390],"tags":[352,331,343,359],"class_list":["post-6319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-390","tag-construction","tag-piecing","tag-techniques","tag-tutorial"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}