willferg

I help with my local chapter of Project Linus, and a few times we've received quilts that, after washing, have seams that come apart. I always tell the coordinator that she should tell the quilter, that the quilter would want to know.

Well...

Now it's happened to me. Ouch! A quilt I made for the coordinator's friend came apart when washed. I'm getting it back to day so I can figure out what went wrong and try to fix it.

She told me that it looks like there's not enough fabric where the seams meet for the seam allowance, which I could understand if I had been working on the fly and not paying attention, but I worked pretty hard on this one and I'm pretty sure all of my seam allowances were a quarter inch or darn close. I thought maybe it was during a time when my tension was off and maybe the stitches had fallen out, but no. I am wondering now if perhaps some of the fabric shrunk and some didn't? I did wash it before I gave it away, so I don't know.

Not looking forward to fixing this, but of course I will...