Lesson Learned - Fabric is like wool!
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Lesson Learned - Fabric is like wool!
This weekend, I finished piecing my grandson's I Spy quilt and my heart sank! I ran out of the background fabric so went out and bought a second piece about a month after I bought the first piece. Dye lots never even crossed my mind, I mean this is fabric, not wool, right? Wrong! I've just learned that it DOES make a difference. Hopefully, the colours will fade out to be hardly noticeable. Next time, I'll calculate accurately before I buy! Look at the sashing to the right of the octopus in the third row and most of the ones on the right of the pics in the fourth row. I could kick myself!!
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This weekend, I finished piecing my grandson's I Spy quilt and my heart sank! I ran out of the background fabric so went out and bought a second piece about a month after I bought the first piece. Dye lots never even crossed my mind, I mean this is fabric, not wool, right? Wrong! I've just learned that it DOES make a difference. Hopefully, the colours will fade out to be hardly noticeable. Next time, I'll calculate accurately before I buy! Look at the sashing to the right of the octopus in the third row and most of the ones on the right of the pics in the fourth row. I could kick myself!!
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I, too, think it's barely visible... but I LOVE your quilt!! I'm gathering fabric for an I-spy for my soon-to-be-born granddaughter... I love your layout! And I truly hope your fabric begins to blend for you... great quilt!!
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I agree with everyone else....you can barely tell it's different. By the time you quilt it and it gets washed a few times, no one will ever see it. It you can do some swirly or pebbling in the sashing it will help the continuity of the quilt.
Pretty quilt!!!!
Pretty quilt!!!!
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