Yesterday’s
project was a cute top made by the MIL of the sister of a friend in NJ (a
fellow member of our Sunshine On-line Quilt Guild). Nice networking Beth!
Beth
warned me of the possibility of rippling borders. This happens when a person does not measure
the mathematically correct side and top borders to square up the quilt. But this particular quilt had another small
issue:
Yep
… this happened to me once, too. The is
where someone had fussy cut a piece out (you can tell by the pinked edges),
then the rest of the yardage was unknowingly cut for borders forgetting there
was a dip in it. So my solution was to cut all of
the borders down by a small amount – and it ended up helping tremendously with less rippling
since there was less fabric in the borders (win-win).
The
pictures don’t do it justice, but the center is the Disney princesses (or are
they fairies since some of them have wings? I have to keep up with Disney – it’s mandatory in the State of Florida – ha!):
This
top also used several different materials – one was a textured thin material, the awua below
(maybe a type of chenille – can’t remember the name) with raised thread dots,
and one was a pique (that might have been a cotton blend) and, of course,
quilting cotton. I wasn’t sure how the
machine would quilt these various types – i.e., would the tension handle it
ok? But they all worked beautifully and the aqua has a nice feel with that texture. I just wish it wasn't so thin.
The
quilting is a panto called Fable (appropriate, huh?). This is the finish before binding … that
stack is growing …
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| Those squares that appear grey are actually light green and light blue! |
I
have more of these tops to finish and some of Beth’s, too, so it’s up to the
sewing room I go!
1 comment:
Cute
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