Now Piecing:Sewing every library block end to end, and posting a Block of the Week on Instagram.

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Sewing the Whole Library

A bunch of new cutting work is landing at once. Cutting diagrams can treat fat quarters as fat quarters, not only as a quarter yard on the bolt, and the yardage packing got tighter so you waste less length on the bolt. Printable cutting templates also grew for circular blocks and for the awkward ones like triangle-in-a-square, where a ruler alone is not enough.

I'm also starting a personal project that will take a while. I am going to make every single block in the library myself and verify each one end to end. Cutting list, layout, sew, the whole path. I want to know the product I put out holds up on the mat, not only in the browser.

That sew-along is also a good way to put blocks in front of people. Every week I will post a Block of the Week. Follow @cleverquilts on Instagram if you want to sew along with me.