Ok here is my story: last Sunday, I take the quilt in to make an appointment for the longarm. I'm a little concerned about the ripples, well last 9 borders on, now last 9 borders are OFF. The quilt shop owner and I, are taking off 9 BORDERS, did I mention there were tears rolling down my cheeks, just a few. So all this week, I go to her shop, as I'm learning about Conquer and Divide (new to me) pinning yuck. So I'm starting on Border 3 again.. Let me tell you about the nightmare, the bias grew while taking off the border. Now I'm stuck till this week, trying to figure out how to correct the growing pieces. Thinking I should take a quilt class, or two learn about borders and such.
Almost forgot to mention, after I have looked at this quilt a million times. I found 3 big mistakes, I dropped the blocks out, and turned them correctly.
Fabric in this week: 1 yd - replacing the black border, my fabric was to rippled
Fabric used this week 0 yd
Fabric in YTD: 20-5 yds
Fabric used YTD: 1.25 yds
Net Fabric YTD: -18.25
Donated YTD: 134 yds
3 comments:
I like the phrase "divide and conquer!" Yeah, measuring. I use the rollers on my long arm to lay my tops out to measure. And measure. AND MEASURE! I have a notebook right there to write in. A calculator. And then comes the pinning. Yes, sometimes there is a LOT of difference, but the measuring and pinning makes it flat. And after it was quilted--well, a nice flat quilt is worth it.
Any time I'm using fabric on the bias I starch the crap out of it so it doesn't stretch.I don't know if that will help but it works for me.
Oh no! What a challenge! Amazing you stuck with it! I'd throw it in the closet to age gracefully into a UFO!
It will be such a great quilt!
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