To rip or not to rip
#21
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I'd leave them. Embroidery stitches are a huge pain to take out. The stitches are so small, the risk of damage to the fabric is too great. Move onto your next project, and you'll soon forget this little oops.
#23
Beautiful, I hope you show the whole quilt someday. One thing I do know it takes forever to make thing perfect so don't even look for that. Be proud of what you did and keep on going. The other thought here is nothing is perfect. Not even machines. Seems like they see you coming and they plan it out their way. Have a super great day and enjoy what you are doing.
#26
Thanks, everyone. I've decided to carefully remove the shadow line of stitching and just have that area be one pass instead of two. It will be less noticeable, I will be happier with it and it won't require ripping out the entire pattern. The uneven patterns I'm just gonna have to live with.
#27
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The quilt is beautiful. Like me, you are a perfectionist, however, when I think that I have made a serious mis-step in piecing or quilting a quilt, I'm the only one who notices, unless someone gets too up close and personal. Deal with it as a design element and I'm sure you BFF will never notice; she will just appreciate your thoughtfulness.
#29
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I agree, first it's gorgeous and I wouldn't rip it out. 2nd If you have an ironing board you can set near your machine to help keep it from pulling on the fabric.
I don't think I would rip it out. What I think I would do from here on out though, is put your machine in the center of a large enough table so that you could puddle the quilt all the way around the machine. That may help with the shadowing. Beautiful quilt and great choice of quilting design.
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Cari
#30
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Location: NY
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....and don't forget that once it's washed it's going to crinkle up so that the actual stitch lines won't really show.
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