I am always looking for ways to use my Accuquilt GO, and thought I’d found the perfect quilt. I love the way it looks. But beware, there are bias edges ahead. Of course, I thought I could find a way around that and could make a better mousetrap–quilt that is. So, I sewed strips together and stitched around the outside edges and cut through the middle, I stitched through the middle and cut through the middle. Alas, those bias edges never went away. I can do this, but am not willing to tell the inexperienced that this is a great quilt to make. I would recommend this only for the experienced quilter who is not afraid of bias edges. As a longarm quilter, the last thing I want are D cups on my quilt frame. Anyway, here’s the link: Hidden Wells – and good luck! This is an absolutely gorgeous quilt finished.
The primary reason I was not excited about the instructions in the link is that the seams did not alternate without a lot of fussing. I always want a system for pressing so that the seams in a quilt alternate and there are no lumpy bulges anywhere. This is one that I would put on my design board with the wrong side facing me, just so I could see the seams and make sure they were going to all go in the right direction before sewing the blocks together.
Oh well, I spent quite a few days thinking about this and made four sets of sample blocks. Two sets were perfectly flat, two sets were D cups–bummer. In the meantime, I finished quilting one and stitched together a baby quilt. I’ll have pictures up tomorrow for you, and a more positive message.
My EQ7 upgrade is going to be delivered today. YAY!!!!!!!!!!
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Marjorie
Marjorie, did you starch the bejeebers out of the fabric, and did that help with all the bias edges? It is a very lovely pattern, but I had to laugh at your D cups comment. Too funny! I take it to keep seams opposing you had to do a lot of repressing? I have a little ironing table that clamps onto my sewing table and runs off it at right angles, right next to my sewing machine. I bless the thing!Link with photos, http://www.wineberryfabrics.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13&Itemid=19
Since my sewing chair swivels, I just turn and press. I equipped that ironing spot with a cordless Panasonic iron and it has worked very well there.
Yes, I did starch it and yes, that did work. I just have no desire to have to do that much extra work if I’m not absolutely in love with a quilt pattern. I actually put my ironing board in another room so that I have to get up and walk. I usually stitch a while and press a while. I’m an absolute stickler for having the back look as good as the front, so pressing is my best friend. I love the ironing board for taking to class. That’s a great tool.