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Old 10-25-2011, 04:49 PM
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MsEithne
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Originally Posted by minstrel
I make mostly large throws to twin sized quilts and have only managed to have one roll up nicely on the boards that she uses. I saw someone's post (sorry...don't remember whose) saying she wrapped flannel on her boards and thought, "AHA! THAT must be the trick!" But...no :( Seems every time I try to roll the backing or top on the boards, they crinkle, or have some weird random crease form in the fabric and no amount of smoothing, rolling and unrolling seems to cure it. When I layer my quilt the normal way on my table, it all works fine, but it'd be so much slicker her way. Am I the only one who has issues with this method? The one time it worked, it was awesome.
Mine always have wrinkles or creases and it doesn't make one bit of difference. I just unroll the next width for basting, smooth it out with my hands and baste away. No problem.

The top or backing may look a little rumply (like unironed sheets) but it hand quilts smoothly. I don't know anything about machine quilting, though.
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