Should I take it all apart?
03-04-2010, 04:14 PM
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With each quilt I make I learn from my mistakes. But I decided long ago not to go back and try to make them perfect. I like to keep moving forward.
Have to agree with Marge . . .
Have to agree with Marge . . .
I would leave it as is and use it until it falls apart!
03-04-2010, 09:07 PM
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I agree with all the others ... it is your first quilt, and it looks like your first quilt ... as far as the stain, you could practice a little applique.
Get yourself some fusible web, draw a fine design, stitch the web to the right side of your fabric, right on the drawn line ... small stitches.
(don't be using double sided fusible web ... get the webbing that is woven fabric on one side and glue on the other).
After you have your stitching all done completely around, very carefully, pull the fabric and webbing away from each other, go right to the center of the webbing and cut a small X (when you turn everything right side out through that X, you will end up with an applique patch.)
Iron over the stain, use your machine or do it by hand to blanket stitch the applique in place ... the web was used to stabilize the patch in place.
If you need more information, just respond to this thread - - I will be back <g> <wave>
Get yourself some fusible web, draw a fine design, stitch the web to the right side of your fabric, right on the drawn line ... small stitches.
(don't be using double sided fusible web ... get the webbing that is woven fabric on one side and glue on the other).
After you have your stitching all done completely around, very carefully, pull the fabric and webbing away from each other, go right to the center of the webbing and cut a small X (when you turn everything right side out through that X, you will end up with an applique patch.)
Iron over the stain, use your machine or do it by hand to blanket stitch the applique in place ... the web was used to stabilize the patch in place.
If you need more information, just respond to this thread - - I will be back <g> <wave>
03-04-2010, 11:52 PM
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I still use my first quilt on my bed. It's made out of old shirts, pants, pillow shams, muslin and some others. Backed with a sheet and batting is a mattress cover. It wasn't meant for anything but practice and turns out I love it with all its flaws. I say keep yours the way it is.
03-05-2010, 12:00 AM
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Originally Posted by cminor
Ok, ok, you are all right. I guess some day I will look back at that sorry little quilt and realize how far I have come. I do have another I have started already, but it is a bit boaring for me. I think that is why I am obsessing over the first one. I am doing a big huge quilt for our bedroom, which will be nice when it is done, and it is even all cut, but I have lost interest. I have been doing those little projects like in my profile picture so now just squares are a bit blah for me!
Maybe I will just work harder on that stain :)
Maybe I will just work harder on that stain :)
03-05-2010, 02:20 AM
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I would leave it alone.
I am making my first quilt and have been deciding for a week to "frog" or "unsew" some of the unmatched points. I decided to leave the seams alone and just finish the quilt as a reminder for the next time(s) of what I did wrong and how I can do better.
I am making my first quilt and have been deciding for a week to "frog" or "unsew" some of the unmatched points. I decided to leave the seams alone and just finish the quilt as a reminder for the next time(s) of what I did wrong and how I can do better.
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