Thread: Help!!

Hello everyone, I am new on here, and to quilting. I just finished my first quilt and I loved every minute of it! However, I ran into a problem after washing it for the first time. I made a jelly roll quilt for my first quilt and then added a border to it to make it a little bigger. I just did a simple criss-cross pattern for the quilting. After I washed it, some of the stitches from the jelly rolls frayed and came undone between the quilting (which are about 3 inches apart).

I am wondering what would be the easiest and most efficient way to fix this problem so that way I can start to enjoy my quilt. I really would appreciate any help anyone can offer me! Thank you!

Do you have enough fabric to re-tuck and maybe topstitch with a decorative stitch in a matching thread?

Never had that prob.
how about zig zaging over every seam, maybe use a fancy stitch.
its all part of the design...you ment to do it.

Welcone from long island ny

[QUOTE=lynnie;5634474]Never had that prob.
how about zig zaging over every seam, maybe use a fancy stitch.
its all part of the design...you ment to do it.
I think you're right just to ensure there are no other spots that come out with continued use and washing. Covering the spots with appliques will help and they don't need to match, just blend. You can buy ready made or make something up, even yoyos would work. Welcome to the board and congrats on your first quilt.

I sewed it with a 1/4 inch seam. I think what happened is just some of the jelly roll strips were starting to fray without my noticing and I maybe got too close to them in the first place? I can see where the gaps are that that is what happened but it only happened in a few spots so i'm assuming that is what happened.


I don't have any more of the fabric to cover it so I would either need to just use different fabric or stitch over/around it somehow to fix the problems without it being super obvious that I messed up!

Here is a picture of what i'm talking about in case I didn't explain it very well!

Originally Posted by SamanthaTheQuilter

Here is a picture of what i'm talking about in case I didn't explain it very well!

On my computer this fabric looks like flannel. If it is, that may be the problem as flannel usually frays more than cotton quilting fabric. I'd follow the suggestion for using the fusible and then using a decorative top stitch. If you use flannel again use a wider seam allowance.

I've had this happen. What I did was gently tuck one side (seam) over and lightly hand stitched down. No one but me knew about it!

I think I would fold over the fabric, and hand stitch in place where the fabric decided to "sneak out". I think I would then do a small zig -zag stitch over the rows to make sure none of the other fabric decides to "sneak out" too. First of all, congratulations on making the quilt, and although I've been quilting a long time, sometimes I've had the same problem. Whatever you do, don't quit quilting because of one possible mistake, after all the Amish deliberately put in a small "mistake" because only God is perfect. I don't need to do that,as I can make a mistake all on my own., LOL