ruffle question
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I ran into a little issue. I wanted to put a ruffle on my quilt to "girly" it up a little bit. I measured and sewed my satin into a big loop (so I wouldn't have loose ends when I put the ruffle on)
I played around with my ruffling foot to find the best ruffle set up to hopefully fit my loop to the perimeter of my quilt Here is the picture - the ruffle is done but its about 1 foot too long. What do you think the best resolution would be? I could go back and add in some ruffles here and there - or I could just try to ease in the extra ruffle fabric as I pin. A little bit of both? I just know the folks on the board have good ideas, so before I went any farther I wanted to get some input. :) What do you think? What is the best resolution? [ATTACH=CONFIG]604292[/ATTACH] |
i woukd try to get enough ruffle into the corners so the outside idge of the ruffle lays flat.
that might rewuire doing the quivalent of a miter at each cornet ,- but it woukd use up some of the ruffle. |
your ruffle foot is supposed to make the ruffles, isn't it? otherwise i just pin on and fix ruffles in between that and sew. Good luck.
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yes my ruffler foot make the ruffles.. but I must have started with too much fabric and/or didn't have the ruffler foot set enough to gather the fabric as close a was needed.
but I am thinking that I could now manually fold and pleat to add in more ruffles :) maybe I never thought of the corners. I am going to have to think about that. (usually I cut my corners round to make it easier to work with the ruffle on the corners) Thanks.... |
Stay stitch the edges down. Cut to the length needed and re-attach the two ends. Similar to doing binding but connect with a straight edge and not on the 45 degree angle.
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I think round corners are much easier for ruffles!
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leave the ruffle off and it is - imo - gender neutral.
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Since the sides are longer, I would pleat in 4 inches on each side and pleat in 2 inches on the shorter top and bottom. If you equally distribute the pleats all along the perimeter and it should be fine.
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Originally Posted by Rhonda K
(Post 8165229)
Stay stitch the edges down. Cut to the length needed and re-attach the two ends. Similar to doing binding but connect with a straight edge and not on the 45 degree angle.
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Originally Posted by bearisgray
(Post 8165243)
leave the ruffle off and it is - imo - gender neutral.
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