Lap Quilt not long enough, any suggestions would help?
01-12-2015, 03:45 PM
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Lap Quilt not long enough, any suggestions would help?
So most of you know that I started my rose lap quilt and I'm on my fourth row but because this is the first one like this I thought it would be long enough after getting them together but after laying it down I noticed nope still two short. But whats bad is I already have three of them sewed together I know I'm going to have to rip them out and put something between them. Could this have been avoided? Is this something that has happened to you? because know its going to take me even longer to get it done.
01-12-2015, 03:55 PM
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You could take it apart and add strips or just make a border to the size you want, you could even do a double or triple border, I've done that when I want to make a quilt bigger and don't have enough blocks.
01-12-2015, 03:58 PM
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What I would do.
Originally Posted by quilts4charity
You could take it apart and add strips or just make a border to the size you want, you could even do a double or triple border, I've done that when I want to make a quilt bigger and don't have enough blocks.
01-12-2015, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by oklahomamom2
So most of you know that I started my rose lap quilt and I'm on my fourth row but because this is the first one like this I thought it would be long enough after getting them together but after laying it down I noticed nope still two short. But whats bad is I already have three of them sewed together I know I'm going to have to rip them out and put something between them. Could this have been avoided? Is this something that has happened to you? because know its going to take me even longer to get it done.
In the future, before sewing rows together, measure the width of your rows, then count how many rows there are.... 6 1/2" wide rows, 5 rows is going to be 30" of quilt.... 12 1/2" wide rows, 5 rows = 60".
Decide ahead of time how long you want your quilt to be, then you can decide if you need sashing between rows or borders around the whole quilt. Taking the time to do the math can save lots of ( deconstruction/ reconstruction)
01-13-2015, 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by ManiacQuilter2
I ended up with a square quilt but I wanted to add some length to the quilt so I just added a piano border. You could just added an inside border to the top and bottom of your quilt top.
To the original poster - experience is usually a great teacher - and, yes, I have had to rethink and redo things.
01-13-2015, 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted by ckcowl
To answer that question { could this have been avoided?}
In the future, before sewing rows together, measure the width of your rows, then count how many rows there are.... 6 1/2" wide rows, 5 rows is going to be 30" of quilt.... 12 1/2" wide rows, 5 rows = 60".
Decide ahead of time how long you want your quilt to be, then you can decide if you need sashing between rows or borders around the whole quilt. Taking the time to do the math can save lots of ( deconstruction/ reconstruction)
In the future, before sewing rows together, measure the width of your rows, then count how many rows there are.... 6 1/2" wide rows, 5 rows is going to be 30" of quilt.... 12 1/2" wide rows, 5 rows = 60".
Decide ahead of time how long you want your quilt to be, then you can decide if you need sashing between rows or borders around the whole quilt. Taking the time to do the math can save lots of ( deconstruction/ reconstruction)
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