Duh!!! I need help - suggestions!
I know this is the place to come for help - you never fail. I am NOT a new quilter but I make some dumb mistakes new quilters don't even know how to make.
A while back I made a scrappy quilt with all small flowered fabrics. I've decided it isn't long enough - just don't have enough length to fit it over the pillow. So today I had this "good idea" - not. I still have lots of the fabric I used on the quilt so I can cut up the same fabrics into 5" squares and make scrappy pillow cases and I won't have to worry about the pillow tuck.....I can just put them on top of the quilt. Well, I got all the squares cut - 120 of them (for 2 cases) when as I was sewing them together the loud speaker went off in my head - loud and clear - "this won't work dummy". I planned on sewing them up and putting a band on the top to match the sashing in the quilt - never thinking about the fact that I would have all those raw edges on the inside of the pillow cases - what a nightmare when they needed washed.
So, can someone give me a suggestion. The only thing I can think of is sewing muslin to the back of the blocks I've sewn together - but then do I have to quilt them? I am going to bed and hope that the quilt fairy comes to help me out while I sleep.
This board is awesome and I never get tired reading and learning from all of you. Thanks bunches.
Pat