Old 03-24-2011, 05:21 AM
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Have you ever seen Sharon's quilts? :lol: :lol:

Once the quilt is quilted, nothing is moving anywhere anytime.

I know I sometimes sound like I drank the Sharon Kool-aid, but her work - and workmanship - is simply breathtaking. And her techniques really show that she totally deconstructed the method, and then reworked it - for the better - to meet her requirements, even creating a tool or notion if it was needed.

I thought I did a pretty good binding. But I recently tried her method and was astounded at how much easier and show PERFECT it came out.

She's got a ton of videos on youtube that she graciously shared - take advantage of it and spend some time watching them. Better than any class I ever took.

And I'm still looking for the video where she "adjusted" a the inner borders of a completed top.

Somewhere online - too lazy to check now - Ricky Tims had a great video or write-up of how he blocks his quilts.
Not everyone needs/wants/bothers about blocking, but it's interesting to see and know how it's done, even if you don't end up doing it.
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