What is the biggest mistake you made when making a quilt?
05-24-2012, 04:02 AM
#71
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I appliqued a baby quilt and it was so tedious, after I had all the pieces done my granddaughter asked me where the green slashing was on the left side. I forgot it! So I took it apart and redid it and then she asked me where the slashing was in the middle. I wanted to cry. Took it apart again and personally the quilt came out cute but I hate it.......
05-24-2012, 04:31 AM
#72
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My biggest mistake was with my very first quilt that I ever made, it was a queen size and I layed it out on the
living room floor and down on my knee's I went and pinned the whole thing ever 4 inches, only to find out when I went
to pick it up that ever one was pinned into the carpet under it, I was wore plump out by the time I went back over each one repining !!!
living room floor and down on my knee's I went and pinned the whole thing ever 4 inches, only to find out when I went
to pick it up that ever one was pinned into the carpet under it, I was wore plump out by the time I went back over each one repining !!!
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05-24-2012, 04:51 AM
#73
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I cut out all of the pieces for a baby quilt and started putting it together and realized I had cut two colors the same way and so it did not work. Fortunatley I had purchased enough to do the backing in the main fabric also so I just figured out what I could do with what I had. I ended up piecing the back in things from my stash and it turned out okay.[ATTACH=CONFIG]337661[/ATTACH]
This is our youngest and she had just given birth to a son 3 days before this pic.
This is our youngest and she had just given birth to a son 3 days before this pic.
05-24-2012, 04:54 AM
#74
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I have made soooo many mistakes that I can't really define one exactly, but I remember cutting out 8" squares for the background for my applique Snowmen. After I cut 36 squares out, I reread the instructions and realized they were suppose to be 9". The Snowmen had very many pieces to each one and I had the hardest time making each piece small enough to look right on the smaller block. It made the entire quilt a nightmare. I had to try all different sizes for each piece of the snowman and the trees and birds and fence and house in each block. I know to read the instructions twice and cut once, but I had to learn the hard way. What was your biggest mistake?
1) My brain would have totally fried in trying to make the new applique pieces fit the smaller base fabrics.
2)I don't have a lot of money HOWEVER I would have put those mis-cut 8" squares in my stash pile and purchased another 2.5 yards of base fabric and re-cut my base fabrics to the correct size!!!!!
Hat's off to you!
05-24-2012, 04:56 AM
#75
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this is easy. i participated in a thimbleberris BOM. but, it wasnt until a few years later that i got around to thinking "i really should start on these blocks". so one night, i undertook cutting all of the fabric for the blocks in one night. did i seperate by block??? oh no....at the end of the night, i had a big pile of little pieces of fabric that i had no idea what went where. They are in a plastic bag, awaiting the day (HA!) that i have patience to figure out what fabric goes to what block.
05-24-2012, 05:14 AM
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Love, love, love this thread. I was cutting material for a material for a quilt, stopped to do something else, then went back to cutting. Finished cutting all the material, when I found out that my son had moved the magazine with the quilt pattern and changed the page by mistake. I had peices for 2 different quilts! I look closer now.
05-24-2012, 05:24 AM
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A couple come to mind- turned two blocks in a gift quilt and didn't see it until it was almost finished. Too late to fix it. The other was that i used two greens that were the same value so you couldnt see the star points. I've made many more, but those two bother me the most.
05-24-2012, 05:30 AM
#80
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I made a quilt for my DD and had it sandwiched and was hand quilting it when I noticed that in 5 of the blocks the pieced leaves were pointing 'up' instead of 'out'. I ripped two blocks out before I had quilted them, corrected the bl ock and hand sewed them back in. I told her about this and she insisted that I leave the other 3 as they were (wrong). Now the game is to try to find the 3 'funny' blocks when it is on the bed. It is nearly impossible but really kind of interesting1 I'm glad I left those as they were.
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