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Baseball- hmmmmmm. One can try a green print that looks like grass; some kinds of batik go rather well too. There is fabric that looks like sand and could be taken for dirt. I just ordered fabric for basketball themed quilt and ordered a large print and a smaller one for contrast with batik added. A good site for fabrics is called e-Quilter and the neat thing is that if you find a print, when you get the close up, there is a button that you can hit with your mouse when you scroll over the print and find a coordinating color in the print that you want to accompany it and it will call up all fabrics within that color range. Really cool! Good luck and hope this helps. You just have to be bold and go for it and it will always come out OK if you follow your instinct. Just remember - there are no rules in quilting!

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Originally Posted by craftybear

thanks, what is the mitchelle system?

I didn't know Eleanor Burns had a cd on bindings

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Originally Posted by Rosyhf

I don't hand bind and I like my bindings a bit wide. I cut a 4 to 4 /2 inch strip the lengh that I need. I fold and iron it in half. I then sew on side to the quilt. When I get to the corners, I lift up and do the miter and continue (For beginners, Elinore Burns is perfect for teaching you binding or get her cd). Once that is done. I eigher use the Mitchelle system with the clips and gizmo or just fold over and pin a bit and sew in the ditch.

Sorry I mispelled....

http://www.martellicatalog.com/mm5/m...gory_Code=Bind

This system works great but you have to really read it good. I looked at the price and wow, I don't think I paid that much for it....y
I think I got it at Planet patchwork when they had a sale on years ago.

I was talking about Elinor's cd 's

http://www.quiltinaday.com/shoponline/dvds.asp

I got her, "Victory Quilts" from Amazon.com. The block in this book are all from Block Base but I like Elinore and every now and then I will get something from her. Oh that is the third quilt on my list.

My challenge is figuring out which way to press seams so they nest when joined to other pieces. Most of the time, I press open and make "pinwheels" to help the joints lay flat.
Don't know how this will affect how the seams hold up after several years.

Perfect piecing & not cutting off my points!

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Originally Posted by Crafty critter

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Originally Posted by craftybear

What things are you still having problems with in quilting?
Let's Chit Chat!

I am sure someone can help!

I simply can no longer sew a straight seam. I just finished sewing the binding on a Sunbonnet Sue quilt for my great-granddaughter and the seam varies in width - have ripped out parts of it and will never be satisfied with the finished project. I used the walking foot and still couldn't get it right. So frustrated! Wanted it to be a treasure for her.

I also have trouble sewing binding straight. You need to use your walking foot. Make 2 1/2 inch binding on the straight of the grain. I iron the binding in half and the sew the unfinished edge of the quilt with 1/3 inch seam starting at the bottom of the quilt and leaving 6 inches of binding free to join the . When I get to corners I stop at 1/3 inch and then go backwards to the unfinished edge perpendicular to the previous seam line. Repeat around all edges and corners. Next I iron the binding to the top of the quilt at the depth that is beyond the seam on the back. Pin with sharp point to outside of quilt as needed. Ironing reduces the need for as many pins. Starting at the bottom of the quilt, leaving the binding open as before, I start about 3 up stitches into the top binding and stitch on top parallel to the quilt . When you come to corners, take the time to make your mitred corner, use fabric glue if needed. continuously stitch around the quilt at that same distance. (Mark the place on your walking foot or on the machine table.)Stop your quilting about 6 inches from the end. You have plenty for the finish. I like to overlap the open ends of the binding, putting one end inside the other. You only need a few inches to overlap. Turn 1/4 inch under on the top strip of the binding. Go back and finish the top stitching. You must support you quilt so that it doesn't pull your stitches inward. For curved quilts use bias binding. THE END

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Originally Posted by Late Bloomer

I am almost embarrassed to mention this, but if I read any kind of 1/8. 7/8 or any kind of 8 for cutting - I am out of there. I have trouble getting that on my rulers and my husband thinks it is funny and laughs at his math challenged wife trying to figure out how many lines back or forward I need. Rulers, as a rule, do not indicate any 8ths and it drives me nuts when i find a great pattern and when I look at the instructions, I will not attempt it. Does anyone else have this problem, and if so, how do you dealwith it?

Late Bloomer, I have the same problem. I have a mental block when it comes to math. I don't see as well as I used to and I think that plays a role too with measuring - for me - anything between the inch or half-inch marker. I thought I was the only one and I am embarrassed about it too.

Is this who I think it is? Miss RC. Not really homesick, but miss my church and my friends. Will be in RC, Wed. b/4 Sept 10, for class reunion, will write you a note, etc, later.

Helen

I agree with I GO TO THE SEA TO BEATHe, cutting a straight line with a rotary cutter, is such a problem for me. Why, I haven't the slighest!

I love to piece. :)

I also just acquired some baseball material, what I thought I would do , have the one paytch and a different color, maybe put the square onto a contrasting fabric or coordinating fabric, got so many thoughts on it. and this is an American pasttime? why not red, white, blue material or squares? awwww, my mind is going a mile a minute about this!