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Old 01-20-2013, 07:05 AM
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brenwalt
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Originally Posted by linda701 View Post
I decided that I was going to make a quilt for my queen size bed. I rushed around and cut the squares out for it . when I came back from vacation I sewed them together and it didn't match up so I checked everything and found when I cut my squares out they were not cut all the right size. In order to get them all the right size I trimmed them.They were half square triangle block and when trimming them I had to cut off a lot of the points. Went ahead
and sewed together as a different pattern. It looks pretty sloppy. Don't know what to do with it now. Thought I would finish it and practice my free motion quilting on it and everytime I looked at it , it would remind me not to get in a hurry when cutting out a quilt. Does anyone have any suggestions what to do with it? I am new at making a quilt but I knew better.Thanks for any suggestions you might have.
Put it together and use it to practice your FMQ. I have two tops like that that are total disasters as "quality quilts" but I added borders, batting, backing and bound them. Am now practicing FMQ on both of them and am having a ball. I will actually "sleep under" these quilts as opposed to "saving them" - Just put your top together and have fun with FMQ !! You won't be sorry!!
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