Please help...can I save this wallhanging?
02-02-2013, 10:01 AM
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This may sound crazy but you COULD accentuate the bow by curving that outer border. I wish I could draw what I'm thinking of: it would look like a "square" with the sides being slightly concave rather than straight.
Having the dark outer border next to the light border also seems to accentuate that lower left corner. I had a similar situation once and solved the situation "visually" by couching a couple of rows of a pretty cording around the piece -- it covered the "bowed" section and also added some texture to the hanging.
That said....it's lovely just the way it is.
Having the dark outer border next to the light border also seems to accentuate that lower left corner. I had a similar situation once and solved the situation "visually" by couching a couple of rows of a pretty cording around the piece -- it covered the "bowed" section and also added some texture to the hanging.
That said....it's lovely just the way it is.
02-02-2013, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Peckish
My suggestion would be to quilt the borders as extensively as you quilted the center section. You might also try blocking the quilt, although I think additional quilting would be more effective.
02-04-2013, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by petthefabric
Quilting does shrink the fabric. Unequally dense quilting results in unequal shrinking. So increase the quilting.
As to blocking: First off-I do art quilts and they are small enough to fit on the tile floor in the spare bathroom. I do the blocking after the quilting is completed and before binding. It helps remove dirt, marking, threads & animal hair/lint as well as relaxing the fabric and quilting. I fill the bathtub and emmerse the quilt for about 1/2 hour. I lay old towels on the tile floor. The I take the quilt out and squeese (do not wring) out the water. Then roll it in a towel and walk all over it. Then lay it on the towels, patting it into place. I do not try to stretch or shrink, just let it be what it wants with some patting. I put a fan on it so it'll dry in a day and close the doors to keep the cats out-they always like fresh laundry. When it's dry I trim the edges to square it up.
As to blocking: First off-I do art quilts and they are small enough to fit on the tile floor in the spare bathroom. I do the blocking after the quilting is completed and before binding. It helps remove dirt, marking, threads & animal hair/lint as well as relaxing the fabric and quilting. I fill the bathtub and emmerse the quilt for about 1/2 hour. I lay old towels on the tile floor. The I take the quilt out and squeese (do not wring) out the water. Then roll it in a towel and walk all over it. Then lay it on the towels, patting it into place. I do not try to stretch or shrink, just let it be what it wants with some patting. I put a fan on it so it'll dry in a day and close the doors to keep the cats out-they always like fresh laundry. When it's dry I trim the edges to square it up.
02-04-2013, 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Lady Diana
I have made several wall hangings and found that dense quilting does cause the problem you are experiencing.
I now do what I call, my anchor quilting around the sections before I do more dense quilting within the "anchored" blocks, squares, rectangles in the quilt. When you outline these sections ( I do start from the center out), then I can go back and quilt "as desired" as they say, within each framed section.This framing of the sections keeps the fabric from drawing up so much when I do the additional quilting. Afraid I'm not very good at explaining....
I now do what I call, my anchor quilting around the sections before I do more dense quilting within the "anchored" blocks, squares, rectangles in the quilt. When you outline these sections ( I do start from the center out), then I can go back and quilt "as desired" as they say, within each framed section.This framing of the sections keeps the fabric from drawing up so much when I do the additional quilting. Afraid I'm not very good at explaining....
02-04-2013, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by quiltmom04
It looks to me like the centr panel should have been squared before the borders were added. Don't know if there's anything you can do about it now. I agree with the others who say leave it alone, and just be aware on th next one.
02-04-2013, 02:43 PM
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I think it was an Alex Anderson show once, she said for a quilt show everything has to be perfect and she has had to block one where she had it on a floor, (I presume it was waterproof) and it was almost sopping wet just trying to get it straightened up. I think the measuring tape is the device to use to help with squaring it. I have blocked needlework years ago and it worked for me. Just manipulate it while wet and fasten down to dry. My quilt teacher says sashes are also called coping strips....and one can sometimes manage to add/subtract dimensions there without undoing the center.
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