Why is this so hard for me??
04-24-2018, 05:30 PM
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Not sure if this will be helpful or if you know it already, but when I use the glue stick on my starched fabric, I press it before I stitch. I think if you starch, then glue stick, then drop your dogs and use FMQ technique, you will be able to avoid any puckers. FWIW, IMHO, its easier and still pretty cheap to use spray starch from Walmart than to use the kind you dilute yourself, (forgot the name.) It was nice and stiff, but my iron was all gunked up. Wasn't worth the clean-up.
04-25-2018, 04:17 AM
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04-25-2018, 07:06 AM
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I was also going to suggest that you starch your fabric stiff as a board. From what you described it sounded like you were putting the flowers down on a square and then sewing. The website that I saw showed that they did the flowers first, then put them on the square. It would seem that would be a much easier way to do it.
I found a website where a quilt guild was doing the blocks for a charity quilt. Maybe you can get a better idea from seeing how they did it. By the way I love the music they did the show with: http://play.smilebox.com/SpreadMoreH...544d3d0d0a.jpg
Hope this helps some. Remember quilting is suppose to be fun and the project you chose is a 'loosely translated project', meaning when the quilt is finished and washed you probably won't notice any wrinkles as it will all come out into the wash.
I found a website where a quilt guild was doing the blocks for a charity quilt. Maybe you can get a better idea from seeing how they did it. By the way I love the music they did the show with: http://play.smilebox.com/SpreadMoreH...544d3d0d0a.jpg
Hope this helps some. Remember quilting is suppose to be fun and the project you chose is a 'loosely translated project', meaning when the quilt is finished and washed you probably won't notice any wrinkles as it will all come out into the wash.
04-25-2018, 08:51 AM
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This is the actual pattern I purchased:
https://www.amazon.com/French-Patter...s=french+roses
Thanks, mac, I did watch the video where the guild did the charity quilt...one thing I didn't want to replicate was how they sewed over the juncture between the layers. I'm fussy, I want them to all be free edges. I totally get doing it that way for the sake of less time/fuss.
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