GASP! Small fabric piece is now damaged in completed quilt top!
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GASP! Small fabric piece is now damaged in completed quilt top!
Imagine my horrors when I went to sandwich my quilt and noticed that a small, 1" square piece, in a block of a completed quilt top had a large hole in it. I don't know what to do! I haven't any idea of how it happened. The 3/4" hole looks like it was made by something poking through it and it is ripped in two directions, both across the grain and also with it. It's too big to just quilt over it. Taking out the piece will be complicated, but possibly doable. It might be easier to put a patch over it. Any suggestions? Thanks!
~ Cindy
~ Cindy
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Applique fixes everything. If you don't want a design like a flower or whatever, just applique a piece just like the one with the hole in it. Get some fusible interfacing and stitch it to the right a piece of fabric slightly larger than the one with a hole. Turn it inside out so the edges pull under. Give it a quick iron and stitch around it with invisible thread. Once it's all quilted, only you will know.
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It can be fixed. You have to take the seams that touch the bad piece out the 1/4 in. seam allowance, and insert the new piece by hand probably. I had to do this on a wedding ring quilt of my Mother-in-Law.
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