Sewing Rows Together for a Rag Denim Quilt

Video Transcript

"The next step would be to sew the rows together. We choose to sew two rows together at a time. Sew rows one and two together, three and four, five and six and so forth. As you sew them together, you need to spread your seam allowances open flat. And match them as best you can. And you see this fabric is already raveling quite a bit. And that?s what we want it to do. It just makes it a little messy to work with. As you're pinning these, you want to take a pin, place the pin down through the seam and try to come out in the seam below. So you have matched those seams as closely as possible. Once you have done that, take a pin and place it on the seam allowance or either side of the seam to hold that flat as best you can. And you will continue pinning that way all the way down your row. You can back stitch if you like. Pull the pin out before you come to it. And as you approach the seam junction, you need to hold the seam up in the air a little bit. This helps the machine to get up and over it. Pull your pin out before you get to it. And continuing sewing your 1/2 seam. As you pull this out and turn it over, you'll see that the seam matched up beautifully on the wrong side. Once you get all of the sets of two rows sewed together, such as one and two, three and four, five and six etc., they next step would be to grab rows one and two and sew them to three and four and so forth. They way we did this is that we ended up sewing one to fourteen together in sets of two and rows fifteen through thirty together in sets of two. Because in the next step, it will be much easier to use half a quilt on your lap working then the whole quilt."