how to make a quilt grow????
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how to make a quilt grow????
Hi everyone. Here I am lurking again and I just know one of you lovely ladies will have an answer to my dilemma. I made a quilt for my niece's daughter 2 years ago. It is a single bed size. However with a change of house and larger rooms mum has updated to a King single and wonders if I can extend her quilt to still be useful. My first thought was to add a ruffle behind the biinding but extending down perhaps another 6 -8 inches. Do you think this would work or is there a better was, hopefully without removing the binding as my time is limited caring for an aged father. Hopefully I will enclose a photo of said quilt.
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I made a quilt for our bed and it wasn't wide enough so I pieced a 'strip' about 12 inches wide for each side, quilted it to match the quilt, bound it on the bottom and ends then, without removing the binding of the original quilt I added it to the side of the quilt, sewing in the ditch of the original binding. It worked great and looks great as well! (Is this clear as mud?)
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Maybe your niece could buy a coordinated solid color bedspread to lie under it. The twin sized quilt could lie on top of that? I seem to remember someone making that suggestion on another thread. I have no idea if it would work.
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http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...t-t172511.html
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Thanks for your ideas. I am tossing up between the QASG extension or the ruffle. It always helps to have a few ideas tossed about. I probably wouldn't go to the trouble but a beautiful great niece is pretty special . I have pleasure in making her and her mother happy.Thanks again !
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It seems to me it would be easier to just make a new quilt the right size. My quilts are not made in a way that it would be easy to take apart. And I don't like "kluging", so I would just make a new quilt.
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