What Do You Do With Tucks and Folds in Your Backing?
#1
What Do You Do With Tucks and Folds in Your Backing?
I had a bright idea to combine two types of basting and ended up with the first ever tucks and folds in my quilt backing. It's waaaaay too late to take the quilting out now. (It looks worse than these pictures... the second picture has a quarter-inch fold in it!)
What do you do when this happens?
What do you do when this happens?
#2
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Prosper, Texas
Posts: 157
I had a bright idea to combine two types of basting and ended up with the first ever tucks and folds in my quilt backing. It's waaaaay too late to take the quilting out now. (It looks worse than these pictures... the second picture has a quarter-inch fold in it!)
What do you do when this happens?
What do you do when this happens?
#5
Power Poster
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 41,538
After the temper tantrum stops, I take out the quilting and fix it if it is on a solid back. On a patterned back, I have used an invisible ladder stitch to stitch the fold down and if I didn't point it out, you would never see it. I highly recommend patterned backing fabric.
Is someplace you can hand stitch some appliqués for a reversible quilt?
Is someplace you can hand stitch some appliqués for a reversible quilt?
#6
My first FMQ bed runner, I overstretched the top, in relation to the back (first time FMQ'ing and with using the Frame! DUH!) and had one really massive "flap" of fabric. SO, I took the plunge, and actually folded the flap across the entire width and "stitched" it down. When I quilted over it, it wasn't visible. I washed it, then showed it to co-workers, several of whom are very accomplished quilters and NO ONE even noticed. I did piece the back, so maybe everyone thought it was a seam and not a boo-boo! Keeps us humble, doesn't it?!
#7
After the temper tantrum stops, I take out the quilting and fix it if it is on a solid back. On a patterned back, I have used an invisible ladder stitch to stitch the fold down and if I didn't point it out, you would never see it. I highly recommend patterned backing fabric.
Is someplace you can hand stitch some appliqués for a reversible quilt?
Is someplace you can hand stitch some appliqués for a reversible quilt?
#8
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Wichita Falls, TX
Posts: 640
First, I try to not let them happen. However, being other than perfect, it occasionally happens. When it does happen, I iron the fold as flat as I can and then sew it down with a blind stitch. A hidden stitch isn't as obvious as an open fold. Right or wrong, that's what I do.
#10
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post