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Month 7 finished! Unintended 'design choice' on bottom border - should have read instructions twice then sewn once!...
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Here’s my progress so far. I am not 100% pleased with my log cabins, but I don’t think I’ll change them. The fabrics...
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Great job on your appliqué.
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Beautiful !!!
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This looks great! I love what you did with the green fabric. The middle is very colorful and I love the design !
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Wow, this looks amazing!
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Lovely! And what a terrific back, truly a two-sided quilt.
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Couple of years late, but enjoying this one so far!
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I got my quilt back from the quilter’s today. I like doing double sided quilts, so it took a while to complete this....
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Thank you Barbara, I'll look for that tape.
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I use a Black+ Decker hardware tape measure. Fold the strip in half, measure half the length needed, don’t forget the...
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Accurately cutting the brown border.
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There is one corner that I do not liking the color and will trade out bottom left for a square in a square log cabin half...
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Im having fun!
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Woo hoo! The updated file worked. As an FYI - I use EDGE as my browser, and I always download first then call up the download...
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Ready for next month!
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I am finally finishing quilting my 103"by103" quilt. I have stitched in the ditch my boarders but they are 6" wide .Should I free motion in the middle of each boarder as well?
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I seriously re looked at my quilt and decided I needed to pop out the flying geese boarder so accented them with free motion pattern and left the solid black 4" boarders alone. It looks good so I guess now I will just square it up and bind it now. -
That's a good size quilt, must have been hard work quilting by machine.
Is the flying geese border the same as the 6" border?
I think it depends on the batting how much quilting it needs but 6" is a big space unless there are other ditches. My choice would be to use the same amount of quilting as in the main part of the quilt. It'll look balanced and be a better shape.
Can we see it pretty please
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Wendy is right. The quilting in the borders should be the same density as the rest if the quilt.
The batting you used should also be considered. Some battings require quilting more densely than others,
It's Not What You Gather, But What You Scatter
That Tells What Kind Of Life You Have Lived !Comment
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Yes, as others said you should quilt the boarder. One reason being that 6" is to far apart for a border as that is the part of the quilt that is usually held when pulling it up or moving it. The second and really main reason is that your boarder will ripple if it is not quilted nearly as dense as the rest of the quilt. Ever see some quilts hanging that have a rippled edge? There can be other causes but that is one of the reasons.
Hope this helps.
It's Not What You Gather, But What You Scatter
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Thank you all . I did quilt the 6" boarders and left the 4" boarders around the squares so they accent the squares and make them the focal point. Now I am just binding it. I have to do it by machine since my arthritics keeps my from doing it by hand.
It's Not What You Gather, But What You Scatter
That Tells What Kind Of Life You Have Lived !Comment
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