Week 3, and it’s a short video. Not a whole lot of time this week as we were busy with the North Carolina Quilt Symposium. This video shows setting your stitches and how to press out getting a flat seam. I normally use a very hot dry iron. The video has been uploaded to Vimeo (posted below) and YouTube.
Hi there. Today’s segment is on pressing. And, so I’ve taken two units. These are 2-inch units, and I have sewn them down the long side. And I want to press towards my darker side. So, here are my two fabrics. And I’m going to lay the piece that I’m pressing towards, on top. And I’m just going to go ahead and give that a nice press, I’m setting my seam. Once I’ve set my seam, you wanna to pick up that fabric, and you want to smoosh it out, just holding it down firmly, for about 2 or 3 seconds, and then pick it up. Once you have done that you can see, you have a nice flat seam, there are no bubbles. It is nice and flat. And you will be ready to start your cutting again.
That’s what I said, but here is the official definition:
smoosh (smsh)
tr.v. smooshed, smoosh·ing, smoosh·es Informal
To squash or mash: “Some particularly unhappy homeowners have tried to scrape the ladybugs off their walls, or worse, smooshed them” (Sy Montgomery).
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Smoosh?
That’s what I said, but here is the official definition:
smoosh (smsh)
tr.v. smooshed, smoosh·ing, smoosh·es Informal
To squash or mash: “Some particularly unhappy homeowners have tried to scrape the ladybugs off their walls, or worse, smooshed them” (Sy Montgomery).
Not a particularly good usage sentence, however.