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As you do all of the pinning, manipulate the fabric and paper to lay flat.
- Now just follow the line of your seam allowance and sew (slowly), manipulating the units so they stay flat,
and nothing is getting up under the sewing area- I like to use a slightly larger stitch for this part than I use for the regular
paper piecing…
And here is my unit A/B sewn together and pressed open (paper and all) J
- I’m going to do the same thing now, pinning on the Unit C (face down) onto the Pieced A/B unit - Lining up the Right
edges, pinning down, then the left edges, then the center and inbetween the center and the edges on both sides…as shown
- Now sew along your seam allowance line again- using a larger stitch (but not so large
the paper will not come off) I think I used about 2.5 stitch length for this.. (And a 1.6 for my paper piecing)… And
I press this open here is the front- It needs to be trimmed down to the seam allowance paper edge-
Which I do here- Back side- Trimmed
Yes my paper gets all crinkly while I am manipulating the block and sewing- But here is the finished result-
a pretty perfect 7 ½ inches all the way around-
And that’s how I make a New York Beauty block, I hope you will find this information helpful
in some way J
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