Stitchin' Heaven

I’ve made half the blocks in this series. I’m not getting better at piecing them, but I may have a handle on what’s going wrong. Most of the half-square triangles are okay, but the flying geese (rectangles with right-angle isosceles triangles inside) are messing me up. If the kit came with pressing instructions, I’m convinced I’d have better results. With each block I lay out the pieces and try to figure out which way to press the seams once they’re sewn. With only two directions to choose from, I should be guessing right half at least half the time. But no matter how hard I try, I’m nearly always wrong. If I catch myself in time, I re-press the seam before I stitch over it. But the result is never as clean as if I did it right the first time. I could use steam to force the block to lay flat, but it would cease to be square (or be even less square than it is).