Sewing with clothesline, new way to me, anyways
02-07-2012, 02:10 AM
#51
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Too much work for a rug that might not wear well. How about using a couple of strands of chunky poly yarn (so it wouldn't shrink ) and make place mats?
Originally Posted by Grandma58
I wonder about how well it will wear also. It look pretty, but rugs are pretty inexpensive and why in the world would I want to use perfectly good quilting fabric to walk on. Yet if some one likes it why not?
02-07-2012, 04:32 AM
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Two comments - 1) I bet if you did a quilt as you go method and lay the cording under each strip before you sew the strip down, you could probably do this a little easier. 2) another idea would be to use the outdoor fabrics - they would probably waer better and they come in awesome colors these days. Even though most are $20/yd, wait for a JoAnn's coupon to make them affordable. For the backing you could use a painter's cnavas drop cloth and just spray it with a fabric guard.
I need another project......
I need another project......
02-07-2012, 05:45 AM
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Interesting idea! Thank you for posting it! My mind is busy trying to come up with a way to do the entire project on the longarm machine --- including the binding portion --- and I think I have it figured out!
02-07-2012, 07:30 AM
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It looks interesting but I may also question using expensive fabric ...but... then again, if you want to be able to actually look at your favorite fabrics I guess it's not a bad idea. My favorites are stored out of the sun with the rest of them, where they'll never see the light of day because they're waiting for the 'perfect' quilt pattern, which I haven't found yet and probably never will! lol
Last edited by Quiltbeagle; 02-07-2012 at 07:32 AM.
02-07-2012, 07:30 AM
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The one problem with adding the cording during the stitching is that the instructions have the cording threaded between 2 layers of batting. It does not lay next to the fabric layer. What you have is backing, batting, cording, batting, pieced strips with channels.
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