Mary Jo was available to help us tie the quilt. She taught me that when you tie, you need to put 3 knots in your piece of yarn. You need to change the direction that you are doing it so that it stays in place. it took us a total of 3.5 hours to tie the quilt. I had to learn how to stretch it and make it fit on the wooden frame. For my frame we used 4 pieces of wood and 4 chairs. We had to clamp the quilt onto the frame for tightness.
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Mary Jo came and helped us cut the pieces that we are going to use as backing for our quilt. We saved this step to do with her so she could teach me the correct ways to measure batting knowing that it will pull and stretch so we needed to make sure the lengths were correct.
We finished sewing all of the longer strips that we are going to use for the back of my quilt. Once we finished sewing the strips together, we had to cut them so we could put them in the correct order to make the pattern for the back. Our next steps will be to sew those pieces together to form the square blocks.
I finished sewing my long strips together. I now have the final pieces in order to finish making the back of my quilt. The next step will be to start pinning the back to the backing of the quilt. Tying will start after that.
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