In this comprehensive tutorial, Ivonne demonstrates how chain piecing can dramatically speed up your quilting process while maintaining accuracy:
- Learn how to efficiently organize and prepare your pieces before sewing, creating stacks of paired units that allow you to move smoothly from one piece to the next without constant stopping and starting.
- Discover clever tricks for perfectly nested seams, including using a "placeholder" scrap to avoid thread balling and a "gizmo" cutter to separate chain-pieced units without removing them from the machine.
- See how to achieve perfect points through proper pressing techniques, with detailed instructions on spinning seams for four patches and pressing triangles without stretching bias edges.
Whether you're making multiple blocks of the same design or simply want to work more efficiently, these chain-piecing techniques will save you time while improving your accuracy. As a bonus, Ivonne shares her creative way of using "leaders and enders" — those small placeholder fabric squares that not only prevent thread nesting but eventually become their own bonus project!
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