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09-26-2010, 11:47 AM

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Sadiemae

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JoanneS,
I love Bargellos. They are so much fun and are so gorgeous. I have never liked red very much, except at Christmas. So, being so smart(NOT) I decided that I would force myself to use red and make a smallo Bargello. Long story short, I fell in love with this red Bargello and just kept going. Then I ran out of fabric and could not find anywhere to get more. Not tall enough and too wide...So--I may be very sorry for this, but I decided to use different reds and I am designing my own twin size quilt with different sets of Bargellos. Might be nice, my be gross. We shall see...

I want to also wish you all the best in your recovery.

09-26-2010, 12:14 PM

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JoanneS,
I want to also wish you all the best in your recovery.

Thanks Sadiemae - I don't want this thread to focus on me - I'm 2+ years a survivor with all positive #s - only thik about it when I can't focus and realize chemo brain has struck again! I'd rather blame CB than think it could be my age, Because chemo brain DOES go away LOL

09-26-2010, 12:34 PM

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Sadiemae--You're being too hard on yourself! Even with you telling us that there's a mistake on the top, I couldn't find it. I love the colors you chose and I think it looks great!

Go easy, girl! This is supposed to be FUN!!! :D :D :D

09-26-2010, 12:38 PM

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Thanks so much! If you look at the 2nd row from the bottom on the left hand side, the 2 green squares go the wrong direction. I will fix it, I just don't know how I missed it. Sewing in the middle of the night might have something to do with it. LOL

09-26-2010, 03:16 PM

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Just last wk I cut the border for a lap size quilt & thought the ist one was kind of wavy ? Oh,well, when all were sewn on, it'd be fine......NOT
Didn't have enough sense to rip it off & go from there, no...I had to rip off all 4 sides Grrrr.
Then to find out, it was my fault.I hadn't found my centers....just sewed them on & trusted all would fit.Shame on me!

09-26-2010, 04:40 PM

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I've put this Lonestar up multiple times! Been in and out of my UFO bin for almost 2 years now!

Do a quick finish and send it anonymously to a charity!

09-26-2010, 04:50 PM

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I wonder if I am the only who once in awhile struggles with something I shouldn't. I was fnishing a UFO top called Heart Patches. I have made it before with absolutely no problems. It went together like a dream.
This top I wanted to just chuck in the trash(It is still tempting!). It has 18 hearts which each have 6 hst and a rectangle, and it has 34 4-patches and 34 squares. This shouldn't be any big deal, but I struggled with my points matching and my seams matching. The only thing I can come up with is that one of the fabrics stretched.

Have you ever had an experience like this? Can you tell about it? My sister says I am anal about matching seams, but it is extremely frustrating. When I can stand to look at it, I will take a picture and post.

I have just spent ages re - cutting some triangles because I misread a pattern, Then, when I had scrounged enough out of the scraps to make the correct size, I found that the next instruction was to cut it down to the correct size after the block was made. I have 125 little triangles that would have done in the first place, and a lot of wasted material. The person who wrote the pattern was trying to eliminate the stretch problem but I find it confusing and wasteful. I would suggest that you let the machine do the feeding and don't pull on the fabric. Try not to sew biases together - sew a bias against a straight side where possible and use a method that requires cutting after you have sewn. Otherwise, stay stitching might be the only solution.

09-26-2010, 05:14 PM

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I have a Lonestar top that makes me want to scream everytime I look at it! After I piced the top I wasn't real happy with my color choices; then it took me FOREVER to find a fabric to 'square' it with! When I finally found something I thought might work, I cut the pieces, sewed the first one in and realized I had pick up the wrong piece! I'm going to have to rip it out AND I forgot to "mirror" 2 of the pieces when I cut then out.....I HOPE I HAVE ENOUGH FABRIC LEFT!! I'm just about ready to see if anyone wants to take this "white elephant" off my hands....ggrrrrr!

What a fun idea! Maybe we should have a white elephant swap of our most hated UFOs. Someone out there might like them.

09-26-2010, 05:20 PM

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Oh I feel your frustration. :-(

09-26-2010, 06:03 PM

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If you can figure out which blocks have stretched you could either trim them up to the proper square OR steam press them to get them to shrink up a bit. If you starch the dickens out of the blocks it makes them easier to put together! Sometimes I have put sashing on every block just to get those stupid blocks that just refuse fit to go together because if you have to trim up the sashing a little bit you usually don't notice it.