Please help...can I save this wallhanging?
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Please help...can I save this wallhanging?
I am making this wall hanging for my sister (my second attempt) and I keep running into the same problem. Because I quilted the center panel quite extensively around the flowers, etc. the wallhanging has pulled to the middle. So I have this funny shape to the panel. I didn't notice it until way later and I am so disappointed as this was quite a pricy investment and i already ruined one. Is there anything I can do to stretch the middle out? any other suggestions or is my only solution to pull out my seam ripper?
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i don't think you can stretch the center. personally, i don't think it looks that bad. but if you are unhappy, then yours is the important opinion. i would probably remove the binding, add a lot more quilting to the rest of the quilt, then rebind it. hth
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Agree with this! I was always under the impression (can't remember from where) that a quilt had to be evenly quilted all over. If the middle is tightly quilted and the rest not I would think that would lead to issues.
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Ok, thanks so much ladies for your responses. My picture is too small for you to see that I have not binded it yet and the brown border is quilted with an elongated scroll. I will try to do some quilting in the blue borders and see what happens. Would you let me know how to block a quilt. I have never done that.
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I am making this wall hanging for my sister (my second attempt) and I keep running into the same problem. Because I quilted the center panel quite extensively around the flowers, etc. the wallhanging has pulled to the middle. So I have this funny shape to the panel. I didn't notice it until way later and I am so disappointed as this was quite a pricy investment and i already ruined one. Is there anything I can do to stretch the middle out? any other suggestions or is my only solution to pull out my seam ripper?
#9
I don't know how to block a quilt block or quilt either, but there was a bit of discussion on that somewhere here recently. I can't remember what was said though, something about water and stretching, I think. But, I just went and googled it and found three or more places that explained it. You might google a bit and see what you find.
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