No issues with the instructions, just newbie problems I think.
My woes were:
- When I was sewing the squares to the rectangles to make the geese, especially the second square, even with the piece of leader fabric as soon as the needle touched my square/rectangle construction the machine started to eat it instead of sewing a line. After a lot of wrestling with this and visiting my machine booklet I upped the stitch length which seemed to help a bit
- When I sewed down the diagonal line on the squares and tried to press them outward they were always about 2-3mm shy of the rectangle edge. I tried a couple sewing 2-3mm on the outside of the line but then the points of the geese were blunt
- The triangles of rectangle fabric still visible got wavy and stretched along the long edge but I'm not sure when that happened or what I did to them
- It didn't occur to me to think about which way I was pressing seams to get them to nest nicely in rows so sewing them together was a very lumpy difficult experience (also the name of my autobiography as it happens
). I looked for a setting in the machine book to have the foot not press down as firmly but didn't find one
Thanks for including a picture of your quarter inch foot by the way as I had been using the wrong one. I'd just seen the presser foot attached and thought, yep that looks like what she's using on the midnight quilt show when she talks about quarter inch seams.
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