Please help with landscape quilt
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Please help with landscape quilt
I'm using poly thread to stitch close to the edges of stuff on my landscape quilt...but,the fabric( not batik,sadly) is fraying. Looks bad. How do I tames those fabric frays? I guess I could trim them with my itty bitty scizzors and paint with fray check? Thanks for your assistance. Quilting Doofus
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You can trim the frays or cover them. A picture would help. You could stitch yarn over the frayed edge kind of like a stain glass if that suits it. You can lay fine tulle over the whole landscape and add some thread embroidery over it.
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Also ... if you are not yet finished and want to know how to continue the remainder of the quilt ... reduce your stitch length and try to stitch as close to the edge as possible without touching the edge.
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Found this book online, which has a chapter on landscape quilts:
http://books.google.com/books?id=U5W...quilts&f=false
I'm not sure where in the book you will land with this link, but the page I am looking at is page 24. It recommends tulle (bridal illusion), and I have seen this recommended before as an overlay for landscape quilts.
http://books.google.com/books?id=U5W...quilts&f=false
I'm not sure where in the book you will land with this link, but the page I am looking at is page 24. It recommends tulle (bridal illusion), and I have seen this recommended before as an overlay for landscape quilts.
#10
The two main factors in raw edge applique are the fuse able and the size of the needle and the thread. I use Heat n Bond light. It doesn't just make the back fuse able, it helps to bond the threads of the fabric together where Wonder Under doesn't do that so much. The other thing is if you're going to sew really close to the edge a smaller needle works best. I use a 60/8 microtex. Definitely nothing bigger than a 70. And never a Universal needle.
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