Mom and I were invited to spend a week with a friend at a time share in Palm Desert. Our friend is also a quilter and it was just the 3 of us. We had three sewing machines and two ironing boards set up and the creativity flowed! I completed our 4th project in the Quilter Academy Freshman Year - Harriet's Town Square and Mom nearly completed hers. What we both learned from this project was fanning of seams. Neither of us had heard of doing this although our friend who has been quilting for a few years had. Oh my! It took us a bit to get the knack of it. It sure does ease the bump/lump build up when seams are pressed to one side. I can see this will make the quilting step go smoother. Now just to retrain myself to do it all the time. After fanning all the seams on this quilt there is yet another reason (besides neatness) why the authors want the thread tails cut even with the material (step 5 on page 25), with longer thread tails they sometime get caught up in the next seam making the fanning process difficult.
My quilt is the pink and blue, Mom's is the purple and green. Slightly different layout of the blocks. Each to her own preference.
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