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If I do a small quilt that I can cut the backing all on my table, I rotary cut it. Big quilts I rip my backings since it is easier then laying out the whole length, measuring with a tape measure and then rotary cutting the length. I make sure my backings are about 3 inches bigger all around my quilt top. When the quilting is all done, I rotary cut my quilt edge for the final squaring before binding.
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Originally Posted by Tartan
(Post 7918185)
If I do a small quilt that I can cut the backing all on my table, I rotary cut it. Big quilts I rip my backings since it is easier then laying out the whole length, measuring with a tape measure and then rotary cutting the length. I make sure my backings are about 3 inches bigger all around my quilt top. When the quilting is all done, I rotary cut my quilt edge for the final squaring before binding.
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After the length is ripped, and it is big enough laid out flat to go beyond the edges of my quilt top, I make the quilt sandwich and quilt, that's it.
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Originally Posted by Tartan
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After the length is ripped, and it is big enough laid out flat to go beyond the edges of my quilt top, I make the quilt sandwich and quilt, that's it.
the very wide (103 inch or such) fabric and you aren't ripping the 42 inch wide fabric. If one has 5 yds of 42 inch fabric you still have to join pieces to get it wide enough to work on a 60 x 60 inch quilt. Are you ripping at intervals? I am just not "seeing" this. |
I usually use wide backs but if I need to sew 45 inch fabric lengths together to get it wide enough, I rip two lengths of fabric and then put the selvage together and sew a 1 inch seam for a center seam. After sewing the center seam, I trim off the selvages and leave a 1/2 inch center seam. I then usually run a line of hand stitches to keep the center seam allowances to one side so they don't flip when I am quilting.
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Originally Posted by Tartan
(Post 7918322)
I usually use wide backs but if I need to sew 45 inch fabric lengths together to get it wide enough, I rip two lengths of fabric and then put the selvage together and sew a 1 inch seam for a center seam. After sewing the center seam, I trim off the selvages and leave a 1/2 inch center seam. I then usually run a line of hand stitches to keep the center seam allowances to one side so they don't flip when I am quilting.
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i think the best idea ever is that of tearing one thread out of the fabric to work with a straight grain. makes sense to me. but, do i straighten the grain before or after i wash. i would like the experts at the quilting to answer the question please and thank you. mickey r.
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I never worried about straight of grain with my quilts and blankets, no issues that I've noticed.
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The more off the grain is in piecing, the more little threads come loose as you put your top together. I hate the back of my top to be messy with all those threads!
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When I was growing up the fabric stores all measured out the length and the ripped the fabric, in some of the stores they just did like I do at home, snipped about an inch past the selvage and then ripped, but in other stores there was this gizmo that was attached to the counter-- does anyone else remember those and how they worked?
Anyway, I still rip the length of grain when I need a long straight piece, like for a back, or borders, etc. I have also been known to rip across the grain when I was in a hurry and didn't want to take the time to pull out my rotary cutter. My mom made clothes and she always pulled a thread and then followed it to make the cut , then if the grain needed straightening I think she did something like pulling on opposite corners (does that sound familiar?). Rob |
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