bearpaw

Esqmommy posted this on page 171. If you go to the website and click on the "Pieclique Circle" - she suggests using spray starch to shrink it.


***Edited*** Esq and I posted at the same time....

sandpat

I "paint" starch around the edges of it when I use it to applique. I does shrink just a tiny little bit. This has never bothered me though. I guess if you are trying to be that exact though, it would.

I tried the "back basting" method last night though and I really like that! Here is a link to that: http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-16857-1.htm

sewsewquilter

It was on the Janome 6500 users group. I will try it but I can't post pics until my lapout is fixed. :-(

graphicsbysue

I've never done this before. Bear with me while I learn the
ropes, please. :roll:

sewsewquilter

Here is a chart I made in Microsoft Excel for the Trip Around the World color layout. I kept having a hard time getting in my mind which block should be what color. I had to draw it out on paper. Thought I would share in case there are other minds out there like mine. :-) Sorry I couldn't post this as a pdf. I don't have the software to convert it.

maryb.43

Hey, thanks for the spreadsheet/color layout. Can you tell me what you think the 12 colors ARE? I keep wishing someone had figured out the last 6, as the initial rows around the center are discernable.Its those last ones that get a bit..."it might be", probably, etc.

sewsewquilter

It is hard to figure out what colors she used after first five or six rows going out from the center. I think she started using whatever her had from that point out. They look to be mostly browns to me.

Tiffany

It is believed that the fabrics have faded after all these years and that they weren't meant to be just plain browns. Some of them are purples that have faded and I think there is a section of blues, but I'm not positive. The four corners are definitely green...I know, not much help am I!?! :lol:

Esqmommy

If you go on Brenda's website, there is a description of the colorway and what they are all around the quilt. I posted the link previously. If you good "dear jane" and "brenda", her site comes up. It's in there!!

Bettia

sewsew, my laptop locks up when i try to open anything except scrapbook or blocks in the dj software.
maybe i need to download it again....????????????
anyone else having this problem?