Inset Seams Tutorial

Howdy friends! I’m home from Quilt Market and trying to jump back into regular life. It was a great time and I look forward to trying to process it all so that I can share some of the highlights with you.  I apologize for the hiccups with the Virtual Quilting Bee Block this weekend. Both Amanda and I were at Market with limited internet access. Poor Amanda’s server has been having glitches. Talk about stress for her.

After having the chance to make my own block today I thought I’d share another technique for Inset Seams (or Partial Seams) since it’s a little bit simpler and quicker. Feel free to use whichever method you choose. Since there was a little confusion on the block, I thought I’d show my process.

Go here for to see the block cutting requirements. **I did make one change – I cut my center square 3.25″ (instead of 3.5″) and it worked perfect.** Make outside flying geese blocks per Amanda’s instructions.

After four Flying-geese units were created I laid out my pieces.

Starting with the top flying-geese unit, I lined up the right side with the right side of my center square and sewed a regular 1/4″ seam, stopping and back-stitching about 1″ from the end.

Going clockwise, you will notice that the second flying-geese block is the same length as the right side of the pieced unit. I sewed the second flying-geese block to the pieced unit like normal and pressed the seam toward the flying-geese block. No inset-seams to worry about. Easy-peasy.

Repeat the same process again, moving clockwise and sew the third flying-geese unit to the bottom of the growing block.

 Repeat one more time on the final side.

Fold back up, press seam toward the flying-geese unit and voila: you did it!

I hope that helps. I’m sorry again for any frustration or confusion. Thanks for your patience and for those who chimed in in the comments to help out while I was unavailable.