String Quilt WITHOUT Foundation Piecing?
10-24-2011, 07:47 AM
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I've posted several string quilts. It really is so much easier and you get a much nicer, finished project when you use a foundation of some sort with these. The bias edges will come back to haunt you otherwise and you'll be happier using a foundation.
10-24-2011, 07:53 AM
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If I read you right...after sewing some strips together, you want to cut crosswise and insert strips...right? I just saw Anita gross an Solomon and she does this all the time...but she fuses a strip of interfacing before making the cut so that on both sides of the cut is interfacing which corrals the bias.
10-24-2011, 08:46 AM
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I know with a foundation is better but until I knew that I did it without and have a number of very pretty, I think, quilts that have done fine without the foundation. And I didn't even know to starch them back then. :)
10-24-2011, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Peckish
Lol too much time spent with my boys, maybe? Which reminds me of a joke - how can you tell the difference between broccoli and boogers?
Kids won't eat broccoli.
Okay, I'm ducking all the tomatoes you guys are throwing at me... :)
Kids won't eat broccoli.
Okay, I'm ducking all the tomatoes you guys are throwing at me... :)
10-24-2011, 09:16 AM
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UPDATE: What I thought was going to be a very fast, very simple project is ending up incredibly wonky. I absolutely will not do this with my batiks. They will get a foundation or QAYG treatment. Ugh. Some consolation that this mess is for my dog.
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