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05-20-2011, 09:30 PM

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Flying_V_Goddess

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Originally Posted by roseOfsharon

Flying_V_Goddess,

It is my thought that you do not want to seam pieces together for the balk of it and also the seam line will show on the front. I am confident you will figure it out and if I can be of any help please pm me. I have visions of doing it and know it will take a bit of patience and a lot of time to applique the bias patterns! A beautiful collection it will make once completed! I hope you will show us your work as you go along and add anything you have found along the way as helps as well. :)

This is a method that I used...

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-99184-2.htm

Wishing you the best,
Sharon :)

Thanks for the link. I looked over it quickly. I'll take a better look at it later when I'm feeling better (kind of sick to my stomach...tooth ache wouldn't let me eat at all and cousin's funeral was today and cried a lot so I think the combination has made me physically sick). Nice work, by the way.

Of course I will show my work! The only thing that I have found that might be helpful is the butcher's paper is a great thing to use if you have a large design to trace. I think its 50 feet for $10. Oh and a lightbox is esstential.

I'm finally done tracing the Nabooru image onto butcher paper. The first half was harder. Literally the first half. I just traced the left side of the image, took the image off the butcher paper, folded the butcher paper in half with wrong sides together, and traced the lines I had drawn onto the right side of the paper. The hardest part about the first part was getting all the curved lines the right width all the way through. If it was a straight line I could just lay the bias bar along that line and run my pencil down each side. Curved lines were a little trickier. It probably took me four hours for the first half and another two for the other. So about six hours. One down. Seven more to go. I think I'll start on Impa next.

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