Wow! It's going to be big enough for my bed!
08-02-2010, 10:30 AM
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Bobbinchick,
Where did you find your pattern for your DWR? My pattern is not done in squares like yours. I have made 2 of mine but they are a pain in the ?????. I want to make another for a wedding gift but have been hesitating in starting.
Where did you find your pattern for your DWR? My pattern is not done in squares like yours. I have made 2 of mine but they are a pain in the ?????. I want to make another for a wedding gift but have been hesitating in starting.
08-02-2010, 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Marge L.
Bobbinchick,
Where did you find your pattern for your DWR? My pattern is not done in squares like yours. I have made 2 of mine but they are a pain in the ?????. I want to make another for a wedding gift but have been hesitating in starting.
Where did you find your pattern for your DWR? My pattern is not done in squares like yours. I have made 2 of mine but they are a pain in the ?????. I want to make another for a wedding gift but have been hesitating in starting.
I got the pattern years ago from www.quilterscache.com She has directions for the piecing, but I did it my way which was to applique' the rings to the square of fabric. I pieced the archestho. So you just make the rings and sew two sets together and then applique' them to a 20" by 20" square. Of course you will have to square them a little after you ger all your squares done. I would applique' them on the way Eleanore Burns does it and that is with a non woven fusable interfacing. Just lay the interfacing fown with the stickum to the right side and stitch around your arches and then trim away the eces fabric and interfacing to a 1/8 seam allowance , make a hole in the infacing and carefully turn it right side out and thestick um will be on the back where it blongs and then you can press it to the fabric squares. I wish I knew that technique years ago when I started this one. I just used a small zig zag stitch to applique' it on. Have a grgeat day, Huggies, Fay, Oh the quiltescache site does not show how to appliue' it on I did that myself and it was easy, Now you can make the arches one color or you can make them diffrent colors. I chose the one color ones as they are easier rather than to cut a bunch a little pieces and piece them together. funny how we cut up fabrics a sew them backtogether huh?
08-02-2010, 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Bobbinchick
Originally Posted by Marge L.
Bobbinchick,
Where did you find your pattern for your DWR? My pattern is not done in squares like yours. I have made 2 of mine but they are a pain in the ?????. I want to make another for a wedding gift but have been hesitating in starting.
Where did you find your pattern for your DWR? My pattern is not done in squares like yours. I have made 2 of mine but they are a pain in the ?????. I want to make another for a wedding gift but have been hesitating in starting.
I got the pattern years ago from www.quilterscache.com She has directions for the piecing, but I did it my way which was to applique' the rings to the square of fabric. I pieced the archestho. So you just make the rings and sew two sets together and then applique' them to a 20" by 20" square. Of course you will have to square them a little after you ger all your squares done. I would applique' them on the way Eleanore Burns does it and that is with a non woven fusable interfacing. Just lay the interfacing fown with the stickum to the right side and stitch around your arches and then trim away the eces fabric and interfacing to a 1/8 seam allowance , make a hole in the infacing and carefully turn it right side out and thestick um will be on the back where it blongs and then you can press it to the fabric squares. I wish I knew that technique years ago when I started this one. I just used a small zig zag stitch to applique' it on. Have a grgeat day, Huggies, Fay, Oh the quiltescache site does not show how to appliue' it on I did that myself and it was easy, Now you can make the arches one color or you can make them diffrent colors. I chose the one color ones as they are easier rather than to cut a bunch a little pieces and piece them together. funny how we cut up fabrics a sew them backtogether huh?
Thanks so much. The process you explain, I did that on a quilt of oak leaves (don't remember the name) and acorns. Appliqued by hand. Was one of the 1st quilts I made when I began around 1990. I really was beautiful. Didn't know I had it in me. My son really loved it.
I have the templates for DWR and have used those. They were the little pieces, ugh. Thought I'd do the single arc this time (not that I don't have enough scraps). Just something different for a change. Will see how I come out on this. Your directions are quite clear to me as I've used that process before. Have a good day.
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