patching scraps together
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patching scraps together
How far will you go to get a big enough piece to be able to finish a quilt? I needed 5" patches and this strip was only 4.5" so I cut a piece off the other end and matched it as best as I could. My daughter said she would not have guessed had I not told her. It's not perfect, except for the galloping horse look. Does anyone else have pictures to share of their 'emergency' patch jobs?
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I don't have any pictures but I too have pieced scraps together to make a patch big enough for my need and I feel very smart about it too! I am working on a scrap quilt right now and some of the 5" squares are pieced from smaller scraps. Can you tell?
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I don't have any pictures but I too have pieced scraps together to make a patch big enough for my need and I feel very smart about it too! I am working on a scrap quilt right now and some of the 5" squares are pieced from smaller scraps. Can you tell?
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Once when doing a binding, I ran out of fabric that was wide enough on the last 12" or so. Once I realized that only half of the width of binding actually shows due to folding, then I knew that I could piece the binding horizontally, putting a completely different fabric on the part that folds to the inside. The binding was slightly thicker in that area, but nobody was the wiser. I thought I was pretty smart, and I saved the project.
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