Originally Posted by
EllieGirl
After reading posts on here about FMQ I realized I had not adjusted my stitch length to zero. So I adjusted it....I thought! I adjusted the tension to zero and have to rip out two long rows!! Uugghhh!!
I am "home" for a few weeks and have been working with my elder daughter and granddaughters to make a triple Irish Chain with embroidered blocks in the "white" spaces. It should be a beautiful quilt when it is done, but...
I cannot be sure what happened to make one set of strips look like a tiered skirt. I had sewn several strip sets and they were fine, but the granddaughter (an expert seamstress) sewed two strip sets that had to be taken apart (7 rows of cloth sewn together). Of course we were using a very small stitch to make sure the blocks did not come apart when we cut them the second time. Ug! I cannot tell you what a misery that was! Even after they were apart and ironed, the cloth seemed stretched on one side. But the joy of working together was worth the extra trouble.