City Line QAL - Week 4

City Line pattern available here

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

It's time to vary the vertical position of the columns and assemble the base panel.  

Add Background Setting Pieces

Turn to page 5 of the pattern.

Refer back to Week 2 when you paired your strips and put them in order.  Arrange your strip sets in that order again.  Only 8 of the fabrics in the photo below are labelled because I chose to just repeat that arrangement and I could use the labelled columns as reference.

Thank you to White Owl Textiles for sending me
 these fabrics from their Fundamentals collections. 
Scroll to the bottom of this post for additional fabric details.

Now refer to the table and the diagrams on page 5 to see which background setting pieces to add to each column.  I chose to put the pieces up on my design wall above or below the column they belong with so I could quickly grab columns and setting pieces to sew together.  That's completely optional.  You could just as easily grab a column, consult the table and diagram on page 4 to choose the appropriate setting piece, and head directly to the sewing machine.

When sewing a background piece to a column, I recommend sewing with the column on top.  This way you can see the stitching that forms the point of the column and can make sure your new seam intersects the point so you don't inadvertently blunt the point.

I slow down here and aim for where the previous lines of stitches intersect.

Let's check that the point didn't get cut off by the new seam.

Looks good!  Repeat to add setting pieces to all the columns. 

This is starting to look like the cover design!

Assemble Column Into a Panel

To wrap up this week's tasks, turn to page 6 and complete Step 1, sewing the columns together into a panel.  I recommend marking centers, matching ends, and pinning as you did when you made the strip sets in Week 2.  You can review the pinning tutorial if you need to.

Pay attention to the pressing directions.  Pressing to the left is equivalent to pressing towards the even-numbered fabrics again.  When the panel is done, seams will alternate directions.  This will be important to spin seams next week.

That's all you need to do from page 5 this week.  We'll save the magic part for next week!

How are things going so far?  Any questions?  Ask in the comments of send me an email.

Happy sewing,

Joanne

Fabrics for my version contributed by White Owl Textiles