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Setting together may give a wrong impression to you of romantic mind. Now, as John Fox explains “whar you says ‘making a call on a young lady’ we says “settin’ up with a gal”—an, stranger, we does it!” Well, setting together a quilt means business, too, because the next and final stage is quilting.

The blocks in this book finish all the way from 5 to 20 inches square. Some may be made up according to choice, others must go a definite way to make the quilt top. In quilt parlance “set,” the noun, means material and plan other than the pieced blocks. “Set,” the verb, means putting together the finished blocks with the “set” (noun). Nowadays, we say “lattice strips” or “alternate squares”; these are the two principal “sets.”

The manner of setting together our finished blocks has as much to do with the appearance of the finished quilt as clothes do with the man! Or the old debate question of birth versus environment is paralleled—my blocks are so—what quality will their surroundings bring forth? Take blocks like the “Honey Bee” or “Order Number Eleven,” or even a simple “Churn Dash.” Visualize them as an all-over, or set slightly apart by inconspicuous white strips, or widened further still by alternate blocks. See how very different these effects are—and how changed again when the dividing strips are dark or pieced into a pattern. So even though you start with an ordinary pattern your quilt may be truly individual when finished.

To read more, go to the Setting Together website by clicking on this link.

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