Make blocks bigger?
01-09-2014, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by JustAbitCrazy
One great way to handle this is to put each block on point by adding four setting triangles around, making each block the center of a square-in-a-square. Oversize the triangles a bit so the blocks "float" within. I saw a friend do this with her exchange blocks, which were all slightly different sizes, and it looked great. You'd never know the original blocks weren't identical.
01-09-2014, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by lakekids
You could also make them all wonky. Instead of just a mini border around the smaller ones, add a larger border 3 or 4 inches around each one. Then turn them slightly and make them all a standard block size by cutting them so that the 'border' is wonky triangles.
http://www.amazon.com/Twist-Turn-Fra.../dp/1885588100
http://www.amazon.com/Twist-Turn-Fra.../dp/1885588100
01-09-2014, 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Capri
Sharon Schamber has a brilliant you tube vid on enlarging/blocking quilt blocks that have shrunken in when stitching them up. It would be worth looking this up so that you can get them to the size you want. It's a bit of effort but well worth it for the finished product you end up with. HTH
01-09-2014, 11:50 AM
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I had a limited numbers of blocks that were made thru an exchange group at the local quilt guild. They were various sizes so I saw this pattern and used it. Just sewed an oversize half square triangle on each side of a block. I thought the quilt came out cute. 
01-09-2014, 01:02 PM
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1/4" can most likely be starched and pressed into size. 1/2" is pushing it.
When that happened to me, I ended up cutting all the blocks into circles and insetting them in a background fabric. Turned out great! I have another batch of blocks to do that to.
When that happened to me, I ended up cutting all the blocks into circles and insetting them in a background fabric. Turned out great! I have another batch of blocks to do that to.
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01-09-2014, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by MadQuilter
1/4" can most likely be starched and pressed into size. 1/2" is pushing it.
When that happened to me, I ended up cutting all the blocks into circles and insetting them in a background fabric. Turned out great! I have another batch of blocks to do that to.
When that happened to me, I ended up cutting all the blocks into circles and insetting them in a background fabric. Turned out great! I have another batch of blocks to do that to.
Maniacquilter...have to say, this is also genious!!!!
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