Quilter cut off seam allowance. Please HELP!
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Quilter cut off seam allowance. Please HELP!
Any ideas on how to bind a quilt without seam allowance? The quilt is a stripe, so it will be really obvious if I go into the quilt face -- although I can't think of any other way. And there's no batting to work with. I have a scant 1/8" most places but some places she cut right at the pattern's edge.
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I think you will have to just sew on the binding as usual OR find Charisma's Quick Machine Binding with Flange tutorial on QB. I have done that so that the little flange disguises the edge so it wasn't as noticeable that a point was cut off a triangle on a quilt.
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Welcome to the Board and sorry that happened to you.
Here is a link to the tut Tartan suggested http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutorials-f10/quick-machine-binding-flange-t77821.html
Here is a link to the tut Tartan suggested http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutorials-f10/quick-machine-binding-flange-t77821.html
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Without a picture, it seems to me one either *has* a seam allowance or one *doesn't*. I don't see how one can manufacture a seam allowance where there isn't one - I mean, you can't get something from nothing, right? Something has to "give'.......sounds like it'll have to be part of the quilt face in this case. I'm sorry for your trouble with it.
Jan in VA
Jan in VA
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consider this. When looking at the whole quilt while it is being used to cuddle under or as a bed quilt laying on a bed. Will it really show as a flaw?
Can the outside blocks be removed and re made?
I would only think it would be a true problem if this were going to entered in a show.
Some times, what is done is done and we love our kids anyway. Hope a solution is found for your dilemma.
peace
EDIT: The flange idea is a good solution as it will cover part of the quilt block.
Can the outside blocks be removed and re made?
I would only think it would be a true problem if this were going to entered in a show.
Some times, what is done is done and we love our kids anyway. Hope a solution is found for your dilemma.
peace
EDIT: The flange idea is a good solution as it will cover part of the quilt block.
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