Have you ever done THIS?!?
#11
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Location: Kentucky - Live in Iowa
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I did that with my first quilt. I was trying to learn to sew, and reading everything I could get my hands on. I forgot to read to quilt first then bind. I reversed them. My son is the owner of the quilt and will not let me repair it - he likes the big clumps where I quilted from side to side (hand quilted - my first and only!), so when I got to the far side - I had too much quilt, I didn't know how to rectify it - so I left it, he wanted it - and loves it! I am not too proud of that quilt, but for a beginner I guess it was o.k. He says it keeps him warm and that is what quilts are for.
#17
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Your spray basting should hold your layers together so you can quilt after the binding is on. I like to glue baste by quilts with Elmer's school glue, ditch stitch to stabilize my quilt. I do the ditch stitching vertically and horizontally. Then, I square up my quilt and apply the binding. By so doing my binding is finished about the time the quilting is done. I quilt awhile and bind awhile-works for me. If you have stabilized with spray baste or ditch stitching you should not have movement towards the edges.
#18
I got ahead of myself by a long shot. I was hoping to finish a quilt for a friend's birthday which is today. I finished the top, spray basted, then thought, "I can get this binding on now and hand stitch the back while I watch tv tonight." So, I squared it up, cut the binding, and had 3/4's of the binding done on the machine, when I froze. I hadn't quilted it. Good grief. So now it's seam ripper time to take the binding off, then hope that I can still quilt it without messing things up. I'll probably do SID, which sounds safe.
Am I the first to make this mistake??
Am I the first to make this mistake??
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