Please help newbie salvage quilt top. Thanks!!
10-30-2014, 01:38 AM
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Very clever fix. Looks great. I'm so glad you were able to get past the problem you were having. I always try to remember that quilts are not set in stone, you can always change them at any point with a seam ripper. I have ripped lots of times and been happier with my finished project. Keep on quilting.
10-30-2014, 05:04 AM
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Here is my quilt, all done!! Thanks to everyone. Your support and advice were excellent. Being a newbie, I ran into a problem which I'll ask about in a different thread. I think this is nice enough to give as a Christmas present after all. Especially since the recipient knows I'm new to quilting.
10-30-2014, 08:59 AM
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Any handmade project would be a great gift and sounds like this one was made with a lotta love. Go on and quilt it, give it and stand back and receive the compliments! Winter's coming and this looks like a warm one! Keep on quiltin'! None of us would've ever kept going if we had stopped with our first quilt :0) Is anyone ever satisfied with their "first" of any project? Come on--you can do this!
10-30-2014, 02:11 PM
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I love how you fixed this- it's beautiful!
10-30-2014, 02:48 PM
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The quilt looks good. I would add a border of one of the fabrics inside the quilt equal in size all the way around and this way your quilt will be balanced. A quilt always looks so much better when quilted and this one will be lovely! I see someone already had this idea. Your quilt looks great with the blue border! 
10-30-2014, 03:02 PM
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Oh, you folks are making me feel so much better!!
OK, so if I tell people "I made it this way" and it's a staggered quilt, can you give me ideas how to make the bottom straight? If I just cut it off the way it is now, I will have a 2" beige sashing on one side with the other ones getting progressively smaller until the last one is about 1/2". Should I try to add a bit of something to that 1/2" one? The same beige? Do you think the bottom should be kept the way it will be - staggered??
OK, so if I tell people "I made it this way" and it's a staggered quilt, can you give me ideas how to make the bottom straight? If I just cut it off the way it is now, I will have a 2" beige sashing on one side with the other ones getting progressively smaller until the last one is about 1/2". Should I try to add a bit of something to that 1/2" one? The same beige? Do you think the bottom should be kept the way it will be - staggered??
10-30-2014, 05:55 PM
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Bbb
love it all staggered. Looks wonderful. Good job with first quilt.
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