Getting Corners to Match Up
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Oklahoma
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I have been trying to get my corner to match up..I try for awhile and then give up. I try again 2 or 3 mos later. I have been doing this for a year and a half. Is there something I can buy that would help me match the corners. I have ripped out so many times I had to throw the material away. If you have an idea please let me know. My husband says, I should just give up! I have a Pfaff machine and went out and bought a Singer thinking it would help. Was I wrong!
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Okiegal29
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Okiegal29
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana
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One of our guest speakers at a guild meeting said she presses her seams open instead of to one side and she lines up the seams and pins just a couple threads past the seam. She goes real slow as she approaches the seam and once she sews across it, she pulls out the pin. At that point the seam is locked in place.
She passed around some of her quilts and her corners were perfect. Not even a thread off. So I tried her technique and I am getting closer. Some of my seams are spot on and some are pretty close. That's good enough for me!
She passed around some of her quilts and her corners were perfect. Not even a thread off. So I tried her technique and I am getting closer. Some of my seams are spot on and some are pretty close. That's good enough for me!
#9
Don't give up, google 'matching seams' and you will get plenty of examples on how to do it. Here one http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Mat...tches-64331734
Is this the type of thing your after?
Is this the type of thing your after?
#10
I pin my seams to keep them in place so they will match up at the end. I sometimes have a piece that is a little larger than the other. In that case I "big bottom" it. That means the larger piece goes on the bottom and as it feeds into the machine it will smooth it out and they will end together.
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