I rented time on a Long Arm to quilt my own OBW. I had no problems with the seams. I did a large meandering stitch. Looks great BTW
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Beautiful OBW. Can't add to the advice already given except to say perhaps next time be a little more gentle with the bias. Pressing the seams open leaves little bulk in my experience and I usually FMQ a meander or leaves, feathers etc. I'm just working on the borders of an octagon one having FMQd vine leaves all over the body of the quilt.
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center seams pressed flat
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I press the seams open for a OBW so that there is less in the exact middle of the blocks. When I quilted it I used a pantograph, because it has so much going on in the pantograph I was able to quilt alot of the bulkiness out.
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Originally Posted by nativetexan
center seams pressed flat
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Originally Posted by k3n
Originally Posted by nativetexan
center seams pressed flat
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Originally Posted by dunster
Originally Posted by k3n
Originally Posted by nativetexan
center seams pressed flat
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I will have to remember to press seams open on my next OBW....I did not do it on this one. After watching the video, I realize that I made things far more difficult by fully assembling the hexigons and then sewing the rows together. I had to struggle with all of those "Y" seams.
*laughing* Best to research, buy a pattern, or find someone else that has done the project.....but I saw them on the board and just couldn't wait! Linda |
Originally Posted by San Diego Quilter
I will have to remember to press seams open on my next OBW....I did not do it on this one. After watching the video, I realize that I made things far more difficult by fully assembling the hexigons and then sewing the rows together. I had to struggle with all of those "Y" seams.
*laughing* Best to research, buy a pattern, or find someone else that has done the project.....but I saw them on the board and just couldn't wait! Linda |
Your quilt came out beautiful. Love the colors. I had to press my seams open on my Hunter's Star for the same reason. It does help, but that won't help you now will it.
I wasn't all that impressed with the book, the pictures of the process sucked. The quilts were pretty in the book but I could have done without those and maybe a few more pictures of what I actually needed to know. I guess I'm a video kid of a gal. Thank God for YouTube |
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