dakotamaid

Welcome to this growing group. When is your county fair? You are a faster worker than me (many are! LOL) if you want to enter this years fair. Happy sewing.

kimby1213

I am going to be joining up too... I have about 80 blocks finished and about 50 of those hand quilted (done the LaceLady way) maybe if Ijoin up with y'all, it might be enough to motivate me to finish...

memereof8

What is the LaceLady way?

jamnltd

LOL. It will have to be the 2013 County Fair. I will finish one of my current UFO's for 2012. I tend to be a perfectionist and critical of my own work, which tends to slow me down. Having said that I love the process.

sandpat

Thanks for posting the link Cre...I do it the way the tute suggested. I DO baste my pieces because when you baste it on the line, the fabric wants to turn under on that same line when you are trying to needleturn it. I usually just use the window as my light box to trace my shape on the background fabric. It is really easy and with the small pieces in this quilt, it really helps. Well, it really helped me...hope it works for you as well.

jacquie

thank you for the push that i needed on this decision!!
i've bitten the bullet and ordered some 'kona white'
i know that it will make such a difference to the look of the quilt. i just hope that it get's here asap!! i don't want to get too behind on this DJ!!!
i was hoping to start soon as well! oh, never mind!! it will be worth it!!
this is all very exciting!!! i cant wait to start cutting out and playing etc!!!!!!!!!!!

mim

what an interesting concept !! I shall try it. Some of the blocks that I tried this summer were abject failures. I think this will cure that -- Thanks -- Mim

sandpat

Good luck with them Mim

SuzyQ

I'm in! I watched the back basting but have a question. I've never done needle-turn applique so forgive my ignorance ... but how do you know how much to turn under as your appliqueing the piece down? There's not a crease or anything to use as a guide?

Thanks, Suzy

sandpat

Thats what I was referring to Suzy....if you actually BASTE it like the video shows you, then when you undo a couple of stitches, the piece will want to turn on that basting line. After you baste, kinda run your thumbnail around the piece to crease it slightly... You'll want to trim around the outside of the piece~ outside basting stitches, leaving about maybe 1/8"...the mistake that I made for years was leaving too much seam allowance. It makes it harder to turn and then it doesn't turn smoothly either.