I, cbott: Pinwheels, "The easy part" two

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Pinwheels, "The easy part" two

Now that the right side is completed (with a line of stitches 1/8" from the edge to secure all those seams), the chewed-up left edge is exposed to light.

Not really knowing what to expect--or for that matter, what I was doing--when I started this reconstruction project, I was very careful to keep as many seams intact as I could. As it turned out, it wasn't always necessary.

The easiest way to finish this edge was to make a separate column of the leftmost edge pieces, then join that to a straight line. So, all those 'hanging chads' needed to be unsewn from their units.

That also went for the sections waiting to be sewn in:

Once all the blanks on the design wall were filled with their planned segments, the leftmost column was sewn together very quickly. Having most of the 3-segment pieces already intact was a big time saver.

The time consumer was making a smooth 2nd column of segments (which is going to look like the top in the following 5 pictures, because this was being done on the sewing table) by inserting all those singleton pieces.

Most of the seams had been picked out far enough down that no additional unsewing needed doing. From there it was a matter of sewing 3 seams to get a square inserted:

After sewing the first seam, however, alignment needed to be checked and the seam finger-pressed into position:

Then the two side seams could be completed.

(Great strides were made in the current Leader-Ender project with all these short/partial seams!)

And on and on it went until that edge was once again a straight line and the leftmost column could be added.