Best Laid Plans.....
02-08-2020, 03:54 PM
#25
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Originally Posted by tallchick
Nothing worse than a date with Jack, but, this will be spectacular when it’s all said and done, perhaps an adult beverage will help ease the pain of frogging, I can’t wait to see it completed!
02-08-2020, 04:13 PM
#26
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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A date with Jack means you are going to use your seam "Ripper"..IE: Jack the Ripper.
Yes...I ripped it out, turned it all around and now I'm happy. It is all put together and now I need to start the piano key border.
Watson
Yes...I ripped it out, turned it all around and now I'm happy. It is all put together and now I need to start the piano key border.
Watson
02-10-2020, 05:57 AM
#27
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Oh my....the saga continues.....
So, I measured my borders to make the piano keys and I needed 216" of piano keys. The pattern called for the fabrics to be strip pieced in 2" strips by colour sets and then cut at 6" intervals to make up what you needed. Each "set" would be 8" across. No problem, right?
Somehow, in my fevered brain, I got the idea I needed 216 pieces of colour sets. ....not 216" of fabric, made up of the colour sets.
And, of course, I made extra, because there were going to be so many seams......
I now have a lot of piano key border.
1984" of piano key border, to be exact. And, don't ask me why it didn't occur to me while I was making it that this was way too much, because I just don't have an answer!
Anyone ever seen a double piano key border before? I'm thinking black cornerstones, a 4" black border and then another piano key border also with black cornerstones to tie it together? And then some more on the back.
And, maybe a table runner......
So, I measured my borders to make the piano keys and I needed 216" of piano keys. The pattern called for the fabrics to be strip pieced in 2" strips by colour sets and then cut at 6" intervals to make up what you needed. Each "set" would be 8" across. No problem, right?
Somehow, in my fevered brain, I got the idea I needed 216 pieces of colour sets. ....not 216" of fabric, made up of the colour sets.
And, of course, I made extra, because there were going to be so many seams......I now have a lot of piano key border.
1984" of piano key border, to be exact. And, don't ask me why it didn't occur to me while I was making it that this was way too much, because I just don't have an answer!
Anyone ever seen a double piano key border before? I'm thinking black cornerstones, a 4" black border and then another piano key border also with black cornerstones to tie it together? And then some more on the back.
And, maybe a table runner......
Last edited by Watson; 02-10-2020 at 06:01 AM.
02-10-2020, 08:31 AM
#28
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Location: Greater Peoria, IL -- just moved!
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LOL, sorry Watson that I'm laughing but it sounds so much like the messes I get myself into....
I'd say that much extra piano key border is a rail fence top ready to be put together with some minor slicing/dicing or frog stitching (rip it! rip it!).
I'd say that much extra piano key border is a rail fence top ready to be put together with some minor slicing/dicing or frog stitching (rip it! rip it!).
Good luck!
02-14-2020, 02:05 PM
#30
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Join Date: Apr 2019
Posts: 835
Originally Posted by Iceblossom
LOL, sorry Watson that I'm laughing but it sounds so much like the messes I get myself into....
I'd say that much extra piano key border is a rail fence top ready to be put together with some minor slicing/dicing or frog stitching (rip it! rip it!).
I'd say that much extra piano key border is a rail fence top ready to be put together with some minor slicing/dicing or frog stitching (rip it! rip it!).
