beyer border prints - help?
#1
beyer border prints - help?
hi!
what are your tips and tricks and goof fixes for working to make these prints line up symmetrically?
i have read the tutorials, watched her videos and i am trying really hard. but i know people who do this have little tricks they use to fix goofs and prevent them.
please share?
i have 44 more corners to go....but here's an example of what i'm doing. two of the corners are perfect and two are not. i would love them to be just so, knowing they'll only ever be so close
thanks!
aileen
what are your tips and tricks and goof fixes for working to make these prints line up symmetrically?
i have read the tutorials, watched her videos and i am trying really hard. but i know people who do this have little tricks they use to fix goofs and prevent them.
please share?
i have 44 more corners to go....but here's an example of what i'm doing. two of the corners are perfect and two are not. i would love them to be just so, knowing they'll only ever be so close
thanks!
aileen
#3
I haven't any tips etc to offer, but just wanted to say I had to really study the block to see which corners you meant!! whatever you are doing looks really good. Love the colours and pattern - think its going to be a beautiful quilt.
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You could make a template and mark the center of it, then center the template over your design and cut the pieces out one at a time.
There probably is a more efficient way of doing it, but by cutting out each piece separately, one has a lot of control over the placement of the template.
I once cut out a kaleidoscope quilt by cutting one piece, then laying that piece over the exact same place in the print and then cutting around the "original" piece - and using that first cut piece as a pattern for the rest of the pieces.
There probably is a more efficient way of doing it, but by cutting out each piece separately, one has a lot of control over the placement of the template.
I once cut out a kaleidoscope quilt by cutting one piece, then laying that piece over the exact same place in the print and then cutting around the "original" piece - and using that first cut piece as a pattern for the rest of the pieces.
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#5
hm....okay. but i think the problem isn't so much the cutting as making the mitres themselves. the blocks are absolutely square, so i centered the flower motif to the centre of the block. the worst of the corners is quite obviously off because while the block is square, it is not necessarily symmetrical.
i could of course just chill out. but jinny's are always so accurate so i know it's POSSIBLE you know?
aileen
i could of course just chill out. but jinny's are always so accurate so i know it's POSSIBLE you know?
aileen
#10
Since you think it was making the miters, I would guess your block wasn't completely square, so squaring up or blocking the block square would help. Or the seams are slightly off. I'm always struggling with my 1/4" seams. Otherwise you could use the method for rectangles.
Just a thought!
By the way, the sample looks lovely, and while the one corner is noticeable if you are clued in the look for it I don't think most people will notice.
Just a thought!
By the way, the sample looks lovely, and while the one corner is noticeable if you are clued in the look for it I don't think most people will notice.
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