One more post about my Raindrops on Wildflowers Quilt! I’ll show you how I made all those inset corners!
I made the block up to start with, but then I had to figure out how to actually put it together. I thought about more piecing, but I had to make a lot and that would have been too many steps per block. So I had to figure out how to make with as few pieces as possible. I made a little video of how many steps there still are in the block!
Anyway… I digress… Back to the corners… Maybe everyone else knows how to do this. I did a lot of inset corners on the Weight of Love quilt I made, but for some reason it took me a little while to get it to make these blocks! I kept forgetting which way to sew them together… Finally it stuck and I was on a roll!
First up, stack the two fabrics on top of each other so that they overlap.
Then trim the two pieces of fabric. And you end up with the pieces above.
Mark one piece, on the right side, 1/4″ down from your corner.
Mark your second piece, on the wrong side, 1/4″ down from the corner.
Stack your dots! I’m using solids, so it doesn’t really matter for me, but you’ll want these to be right sides together!
Then sew, using a 1/4″ seam along the edge and stop at your dot.
When you stop at the dot, leave your needle down, but raise your foot. Then pull your top fabric around to align with the bottom piece. Sometimes the fabric wants to bunch under the needle, sometimes it doesn’t. Not sure why… But when it does, I just go in with my tiny scissors and move the fabrics behind the needle so they aren’t bunching. If you watch the ‘video’ above, you’ll see these steps in action!
Then continue sewing out to the other end!
Here’s the kicker! Iron into the V. If you iron the other way, you’ll get bumps.
Then you have this!
Some pretty awesome looking inset corners! Oh, yea!
Honestly, I kinda hated cutting the second one off to add the half circles. But it had to be done. I thought about not using the half circles on the back blocks, but I really like the half circles, too. Big Dilemma I had! I used the inset circle tutorial to add the circles.
Hope this helps in your sewing fun!