Oh Yeah, It's All Coming Together.

When all 9 of the columns of squares were completed, I began connecting them to form the 13 rows.

I chose to connect two of the columns to form double rows.  Then I sewed these double rows together and ended with the 13th row onto the throw made up of rows 1-12.   You could assemble this one column at a time but I would suggest doing so always keeping the larger assembled pieces to your left and keeping the area clear in the throat of the machine as you see here.

This photo also gives you a good look at the standing seams that have been created on the twill side of the throw.  These look like big seams, and they are by any other sewing construction standard, but you want enough material to cut for the ragged finish.

When you are pinning your pieces together, you now have the bulk of the seams that joined each square together to deal with.  As shown in this photo, you want to open those seams up and match the seam stitching lines together at the “four corner” intersection that is created.

I usually end up with a pin on either side of the seam, holding down the ½” seam allowance fabric.  Try not to pull on your squares too much as you work with them.  There may be slight variations in size from one square to another.  The critical parts to connect accurately are the seams.  This may mean that you have to ease some fullness of a square on one side to the smaller dimension of the square that is now facing it as you pin them together.  This is fine.  It will all work out!  You may just need to use more pins in some areas than others to ease these differences together and hold them there until you sew them in place.  This whole process is very forgiving.  A few tucks or wrinkles, literally will “come out in the wash”!

All 120 squares have now been assembled, column by column, row by row!  The stitching pattern on the original double faced squares now visually forms a cross hatched pattern across the face of the fur side of the throw.

Here’s the twill side of the throw.  See all the standing seams?!

To finish the edges, I simply stitched two parallel lines sewn completely around the entire throw.  Next, we’ll work on creating the “ragging” of the seam allowances.

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