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Old 01-17-2010, 08:09 PM
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gramqlts
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I recently made an appliqued crazy chicken quilt for oldest grand daughter. I used the prepackaged regular weight and then went and bought the lite weight. After ironing all pieces on, none of my 3 sewing machines would stitch good on edges. It all came out too stiff and made them get all out of whack (tension, top & bottom) and sticky stuff on needles. I ended up doing all sewing by hand and even that was a pain in the butt as it was so hard to get needle thru but after appliquing almost 20 blocks I did not want to throw them out so I did old fashioned blanket stitch. Won't buy anymore prepackaged. Don't have that problem with the stuff I buy by the yard at local Walmart. So far our walmart is still carrying fabric and every time I go in I guy something in that dept to help with their sales totals as I don't want it to close down.
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