Scalped and requilted!

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11-11-2012, 01:12 PM

#31

saragasch

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Beautiful! I love the colors and your quilting is gorgeous....

11-11-2012, 01:18 PM

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thepolyparrot

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Oh, what a heartbreaker!

But, yikes, what a gorgeous result! Well worth the extra care - the quilting is beautiful.

11-11-2012, 02:40 PM

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nunnyJo

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that is awesome, by the way, I'm a dummy. what is scalping in quilting?

11-11-2012, 02:46 PM

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alfosa421

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Very nice and well worth the effort to."scalp" it.

11-11-2012, 02:55 PM

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sue1964

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very nice work.

11-11-2012, 03:00 PM

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cjtinkle

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Quote:

Originally Posted by nunnyJo

that is awesome, by the way, I'm a dummy. what is scalping in quilting?

Thanks everyone! Scalping is where you leave the quilt on the longarm, and lift the top and the batting away from the backing fabric to expose the stitches, then run a razor blade (I use my rotary cutter) lightly against the stitches. Unless you're incredible careful, it often destroys the batting and the backing, but the top is safe. It's a last ditch effort... but if you've ever tried to frog out black thread on black fabric...

11-11-2012, 06:11 PM

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Chris Anders

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You did a great job. Very pretty. Worth re-doing. Turned out so good.

11-11-2012, 06:22 PM

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huntannette

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oh wow.....i love it!!!!

11-11-2012, 06:40 PM

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debcavan

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Have you ever used an eye brow shaper. It is a razor cover that his little slits where the thread can slide in but you don't cut your fabric.

The quilt is beautiful. I especially like the floral border and all the plaids.