Preparing quilt yardage.....
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Preparing quilt yardage.....
Please be patient with me I'm new at quilting. I have washed my yardage and am ready to iron it. I understand pressing is important but, do you press or can you iron ( like a shirt) your yardage? I realize this probably sounds like a silly question but, I'm more than a little paranoid about all the quilting rules.
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Donnajean is right. You don't want to distort your fabric. I usually press towards me then then start over to the right and again press toward me paralleling the selvages. Then when finished with that section, I move the fabric about 10" and start over again. Make sure you fabric is laying flat.
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Me too! and horrors of horrors I iron my blocks too! And guess what, I turn out some fine quilts and I do some complex patterns to boot. I don't use steam. When I iron my yardage I try to do it while the fabric is still a bit damp. If I left it in the dryer too long I use a spray bottle to dampen as I go.
#8
Yeah what willferg said!! There are no hard and fast rules in quilting (except try really hard not to cut yourself and if you do, try really really hard not to bleed on the fabric!!) You just want your fabric smooth. Do it what ever way makes sense to you.
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I really like it that you said, if you do cut yourself, try not to bleed on your fabric.
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Yup! What dunster, willferg, feline fanatic, GingerK said!
When I look back and see all of the things I was afraid of, it makes me laugh. What my fear did was to "freeze me" into no action. Just dive in and have fun learning.
When I look back and see all of the things I was afraid of, it makes me laugh. What my fear did was to "freeze me" into no action. Just dive in and have fun learning.
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