Originally Posted by Flying_V_Goddess
Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
Originally Posted by Flying_V_Goddess
I wasn't completely understnading the tuts so I tried finding a video and got this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2w3QPfNGM4. I get this one, but this how-to looks different from the ones you guys showed me. Is this just another way of doing the same thing or are you looking at it and going "What is she doing???"
That's the easiest way to do it since you only have to hand stitch one side. I make mine just a little shorter than that though. I like to leave a good inch on each side so you don't see the brackets for the rod.
That's my other problem. My hand sewing is awful.
My borders will probably be as wide as the sleeve. And I was just going to do straight stitching for the quilting on the borders. So that got me thinking. I could do most of the quilting on the border. Prepare to make the sleeve. Do everything up to making that second fold to make that poof for the rod. Lay the sleeve open and stitch along that extra fold. Then line up the edges of the sleeve and do the binding. I think if I plan it right when I stitch along that fold it will secure the sleeve to the back and create a line of the straight stitch quilting in the front and nobody can tell.
Tell me if I'm not making sense or my idea is crazy.
LOL!! I was just thinking when I put the sleeves on the last two wall hangings that if I pinned it on open when I quilt around the last border I wouldn't have to sew it down by hand. Go for it! Just make sure you pin the rest of it out of the way.