Why Oh Why "y" Seams
06-12-2011, 07:38 AM
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Originally Posted by debcavan
Every three years I do a quilt that is way beyond what I think I can do. I've been doing split star quilts with fussy cuts and thought of my bird fabric from Walmart that I got seven years ago when it first came out. It's time had come. I saw a wall hanging of one motif of the flying swollows. This has four.
Along with y seams which were the easy part, there were 37 places where 8 seams met and many where six seams met. All these made those Y seams seem easy.
Over half of the back ground is off grain, the birds are all off grain.
I starch everything to keep the pieces from being stretch. I marked all the seams at the intersections. It took forever to piece and a long time to quilt. This is by far the hardest quilt I have ever made. Maybe this time I will wait five years before I do something "outrageously difficult" again
Along with y seams which were the easy part, there were 37 places where 8 seams met and many where six seams met. All these made those Y seams seem easy.
Over half of the back ground is off grain, the birds are all off grain.
I starch everything to keep the pieces from being stretch. I marked all the seams at the intersections. It took forever to piece and a long time to quilt. This is by far the hardest quilt I have ever made. Maybe this time I will wait five years before I do something "outrageously difficult" again
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