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05-19-2011, 07:50 PM

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Flying_V_Goddess

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Originally Posted by roseOfsharon

Flying_V_Goddess

I don't mean to be insistent... but I keep looking at your picture here, and still knowing that what you have outlined in colors is black...I still see where you have options to start and stop at points by hiding under another bias. Are each of those pieces over 40"? How big are the blocks? or is this the whole quilt?

See on each side of her where you have it highlighted red... each side is independent ( can use it's own piece of bias to complete that portion.. ending where the highlighted part that goes around her head and face. I wish I could show you! lol or at least see it ! :)

The image you are looking at is the whole thing. Its going to be about 24"x24". There are going to be 7 similar wall hangings.

[IMG]http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...s/SariaTWW.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...DaruniaTWW.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...ss/RutoTWW.png[/IMG]
(Saria, Darunia, Ruto)

[IMG]http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...ss/ImpaTWW.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...NabooruTWW.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...s/RauruTWW.png[/IMG]
(Impa, Nabooru, Rauru)

(don't have images loaded up for the other two)

I think I kind of get what you're trying to tell me with Ruto. Like how the fin starts at the top of her head and ends at the bottom of her elbow. Just one of her fins is 45", not both. I know that I can tuck one end of the leading underneath her head and the other underneath her elbow. I guess what I'm trying to say is its a long way between the start and stop and therefore needs a longer strip of bias. And I'm not sure if I can get that longer strip without piecing strips together...and I'm not sure if piecing together would be a good idea since the extra seams would create bulk and I see that as possibly being a problem because the tape is going to be so thin.

I'm trying to figure out what to do for her head, though, because there's really no definate start and stop. I think I could start in the corner of her head, work my way around until I get back to the starting point, and wrap the end underneath the starting point.

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