What is the best tip you ever got?
10-06-2010, 01:04 PM
#132
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Happy Valley, South Australia
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Originally Posted by katesnanna
The VERY best tip I ever got was to use 2 pins when lining up seams. One on either side of the seam. Providing I have it properly lined up before I pin it won't shift and has saved me lots of unstitching over the years.
10-06-2010, 01:39 PM
#133
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: New Brunswick Canada
Posts: 540
Be accurate with your 1/4" seams. It was my downfall, and I could never get my corners to match up! I invested $5 and bought a little seamstress magnet that attaches on the bed of my sewing machine and I get perfect 1/4" seams every time now!
10-06-2010, 02:29 PM
#137
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Mt Spokane, Washington
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Not a quilt reply, but I am commenting on your dogs. I love that picture. I have a little min pin, that was given to me, my daughter thought it would be cute to go with our 90# doberman" Hans" Hans died a day and a half after we got the min pin.
10-06-2010, 02:31 PM
#138
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Illinois
Posts: 1,322
If your fabric is starched before you cut it, your cuts will be more accurate. I use Mary Ellen's or somethingelse I cant name right now that doesnt flake.
Spray basting is done when you layer the quilt so you dont have to pin. I think there are directions on how to do it on here or on the can. Sullivan, 505 are common brands.
Spray basting is done when you layer the quilt so you dont have to pin. I think there are directions on how to do it on here or on the can. Sullivan, 505 are common brands.
10-06-2010, 02:48 PM
#140
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Halls Cross Roads, TN
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Got to ask....what was the trick????
Originally Posted by jitkaau
I don't like finishing off the binding by hand as it is always too time consuming. Doing it all by machine was a bit hit and miss until a tailor showed me a trick of how I could sew it all by machine, and it was just as neat on both sides. No - one can tell from which side I was doing the final stitching and my binding goes on very quickly.
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