Raggy Quilts
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I just started my 1st Raggy Quilt using quilt shop quality flannels. Instead of just quilting an X across the squares I decided to have fun with some of the decorative stitches on my sewing machine, and am using different stitches for each square (still stitching an X) . But then I got to thinking...since the directons say to NOT prewash the fabric, when the blocks are sewn together and I then wash the finished quilt to get the fraying, are the blocks liable to shrink differently depending on the stitches? I will probably test it out with some scrap pieces before I continue with the rest, but if anyone else has tried this would you let me know how it turned out?
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I saw a snow man rag quilt the other day at a quilt shop. It had snow man faces on it with a hat. The clerk said the pattern was in a magazine and the pattern is our of print. Does this ring a bell to anyone? I would like to try and get the back issue of the magazine. Hope this makes some sort of sense. Thanks.
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For a rag quilt if you are using the flannel in the middle layer and your blocks aren't real large you don't have to put an X at all.
And for rag quilts you never pre-wash your material. You want it to ravel really full at the seam clippings.
Hope this helps out.
And for rag quilts you never pre-wash your material. You want it to ravel really full at the seam clippings.
Hope this helps out.
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