I have a quilt in progress...had the borders pinned ready to sew when realised I've cut one of the patches HALF AN INCH too big...now I have to unpick, trim, re sew, re-iron (it's been mooshed up in a basket for 2 year LOL), re pin and then sew the border back on...then quilt & finish. That should be do-able, right???
For sure MD! Lol. Man, that would be so annoying! i know with the patchwork puppy I'm making (which has been stuffed in my box of unfinished projects for over a year) the squares don't line up..I'm sure they were all the same size to begin with though, so I musn't have sewn them all with the same margin. I'm over it though...as long as it is finished I'll be happy and don't really care how crappy it looks! Lol. I have one side of it done, just need to sew all the squares together for the other side, sew both sides together, stuff it and then do nose/eyes.
My first mini goal though will be: I want at least two of the door snakes done by the end of this weekend. Don't know if I will be able to stuff them, decided on sand to fill them with so I just need to source a bag of beach sand. Waiting on material my mum is posting to me to do the two I need for the double doors in our bedroom and the dining room.
I started a patchwork quilt for dd this time last year and have done the main part - just need to do the last border, buy the batting, quilt then bind. This is my first ever so that's a lot for me - and i'm really unsure about the actual 'quilting' bit of it - i'm assuming i'll just go 'in the ditch' as opposed to the beautiful swirly patterns i've seen as i'm not very neat and this being my first time.
PlonkeeMumma - do you know what batting you are using and what the recommended stitch proximity (not the official terminiology I dont think) is?
Depending on whats going inside the quilt, is how close together the quilting stitches will need to be so that it doesn't fall apart with age.
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