Value 5

Everyone has their own way of doing things and this is the way I like to put these HSTs together. I mark the direction that I want to press rows with my pins while the rows are still on the design wall. I press in the direction that the pin is pointing (even I an remember that!) and I always put the pins on the left side of the rows. After they HSTs are sewn together into a row I finger press the seams from the right side in the direction of the pins while the row is on the ironing board and then I press with the iron. When I put two rows together for the long horizontal seam, the pressed seams nest and make it really easy to match them. I generally pin about every third intersection and the other intersections I can feel with my fingers. When the rows are sewn together, I set-press the seam on the wrong side and then turn the top row to the top (my flower pins are always on the left, so it's easy to see what's the top) finger press at each seam and then press with the iron. I then spray starch the seam and press again.

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