Another Star for Candlequilter
06-01-2011, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by 2 Doods
Candlequilter will be there if I get stuck.
The only tip I can give you that I stumbled on with my 3rd attempt is this -- where you have the half Y seam (where you sew the smaller A+B piece to the larger A+C+D piece), first don't try to do this as 1 seam. Do it as a 2 part seam. Sew longest part of the seam first (A of the smaller piece to the C+D of the larger piece). Then do the smaller part of the seam (B of the smaller piece to A of the larger piece).
Second, when you go to make the turn for the Y seam, first clip both the larger piece and the small A+B piece at that corner. Once I did that, I had no trouble manipulating the pieces in order to get them to line up easily to sew that part of the seam. When I tried to sew that as 1 entire seam, it was a complete nightmare.
06-01-2011, 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by LaurieE
Originally Posted by 2 Doods
Candlequilter will be there if I get stuck.
The only tip I can give you that I stumbled on with my 3rd attempt is this -- where you have the half Y seam (where you sew the smaller A+B piece to the larger A+C+D piece), first don't try to do this as 1 seam. Do it as a 2 part seam. Sew longest part of the seam first (A of the smaller piece to the C+D of the larger piece). Then do the smaller part of the seam (B of the smaller piece to A of the larger piece).
Second, when you go to make the turn for the Y seam, first clip both the larger piece and the small A+B piece at that corner. Once I did that, I had no trouble manipulating the pieces in order to get them to line up easily to sew that part of the seam. When I tried to sew that as 1 entire seam, it was a complete nightmare.
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