How Do You Square Up Quilt Blocks?
Why Our Quilt Blocks Need to Be Squared Up Take a look in our Quilting Forum and you’ll always find a selection of quilt block swaps in progress. Part of the fun of swaps is sharing our work with new and old friends, and while we all do our very best to make sure blocks are accurate, there are often variations among blocks from different quilters. Maybe the quarter inch seam was slightly different. Or maybe the patches were cut using different brands of rotary rulers — or by positioning the fabric in a slightly different spot under the ruler. If you expect perfection in every quilt block you receive, it’s probably best that you don’t swap, or that you only swap quilt blocks with a limited number of quilters who you know will send you perfectly stitched blocks. But if you’re looking for friends and memories,
