Husqvarna Quilt Designer II User Manual page 52

Quilting with Quilt Designer II
Making the blocks:
Select Woven Light on the Sewing Advisor. Snap on
presser foot A and insert stitch d-Card E with quilt
1
and appliqué stitches in your Quilt
De sign er. Select stitch E 01 for a 1/4" (6 mm) seam
1
al low ance when the fabric edges line up with the
edge of the A Foot. Adjust stitch length to 1 1/2.
Thread with a light color neutral sew ing thread on
top and in the bobbin, that will not show through
the lightest fabric in the quilt.
Illustration A
Illustration A
With right sides together and raw edges aligned,
place center squares on top of the fi rst fabric strip
for log 2. Stitch the center squares to the strip, right
sides together. Unfold and press seam allowance
towards the center square.
Illustration B
Illustration B
Illustration C
Using rotary cutter and ruler, align ruler with the
raw edge of the square and cut strips even with the
edges of the center square. Repeat for all squares.
Place the two-square units on top of the fabric strip
for log 3 right sides together. Sew. Align rul er with
raw edge of the unit and cut to form three-piece
units. Repeat for all blocks. Always press seam
allowance towards the center of the block.
Illustration C, D, E
Continue sewing logs in this way until you have
used all strips and have 99 fi nished blocks, keep ing
the light colored fabrics on one side and the dark on
Illustration D Illustration E
the other as illustrated.
Combining the blocks:
Illustration F
Check up that all 99 quilt blocks are the same size.
Arrange the blocks so the light and dark cre ates the
Straight Furrow Quilt Top as il lus trat ed. Join the
blocks, right sides together, to 9 horizontal rows with
11 blocks in each row. Press seam allowance fl at
open.
Sew the rows to form the quilt top. Press seam
allowances open.
Measure width and length of the quilt top to
de ter mine the length of the borders.
Illustration F
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