Old 07-22-2012, 01:28 PM
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linkd
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If they come for me, I'm ready. I just finished a very simple quilt (6 in squares) for my soon to be born Grandson (my first). I looked at the quilt, the corners matched, it was bound and quilted using the pillowcase method. My stitch in the ditch had pretty much stayed in the ditch and the colors were just what I was trying for. It was as 'perfect' as I could make it ... and I looked at it and it was wrong!!! So I fixed it by running down to joAnnes and buying some baby blue polyester "satin" blanket binding. And I machine sewed it around all four sides using a zigzag stitch and tucking in and top stitching the corner edges. The outside squares now look like rectangles, the quilt police hate it and my son still remembers the satin binding around his favorite blanket when he was a toddler. It's really perfect now. As I told my son and his wife, If it is falling apart in five years I will be thrilled - if it is in perfect condition my feeling will be hurt.
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