How can I fix a missed seam?
04-27-2011, 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by snipper74
I was just hand sewing the underside of the binding on my first quilt when I noticed that there is a 1 1/2 inch gap between my sashing and the border. The quilt is already professionally quilted which means that I can't get 'inside' to sew the seam. I tried overcasting the seam and it looked so awful that I ripped it out. Any ideas about how I can correct this error. In the future, I'll examine my work much more carefully before quilting or having it quilted. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Here's one: http://quilttaffy.blogspot.com/2008/...-tutorial.html
04-27-2011, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by catmcclure
Originally Posted by snipper74
I was just hand sewing the underside of the binding on my first quilt when I noticed that there is a 1 1/2 inch gap between my sashing and the border. The quilt is already professionally quilted which means that I can't get 'inside' to sew the seam. I tried overcasting the seam and it looked so awful that I ripped it out. Any ideas about how I can correct this error. In the future, I'll examine my work much more carefully before quilting or having it quilted. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Here's one: http://quilttaffy.blogspot.com/2008/...-tutorial.html
04-27-2011, 02:17 PM
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Okay. Here comes MRS EXPERIENCE!!!! Yes, I did that. SIGH...
What I did was fussy cut flowers out of one of the fabrics I used on the quilt. I then stuffed them and appliqued some of them in various places on the "finished" quilt....some just on top, some around to the back. It looked beautiful and the comments, by people who did not know it was to cover a mistake, were "Oh, how creative and original! I never would have thought to do such a different thing!" I politely bowed and took all of the compliments. You would have loved to share the joy inside of me!!! Necessity sure is the mother of invention!
What I did was fussy cut flowers out of one of the fabrics I used on the quilt. I then stuffed them and appliqued some of them in various places on the "finished" quilt....some just on top, some around to the back. It looked beautiful and the comments, by people who did not know it was to cover a mistake, were "Oh, how creative and original! I never would have thought to do such a different thing!" I politely bowed and took all of the compliments. You would have loved to share the joy inside of me!!! Necessity sure is the mother of invention!
04-27-2011, 02:18 PM
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There is a type of hand sewing that you can try. I saw it on a tut but have been doing it for years. You insert your needle into the seam but do it so that the know doesn't show. Then run the needle a little ways under the fabric and come out with the needle and into the seam opposite. Run the needle a little ways and come out and into the seam opposite. Make the little ways very little. It's hard to explain, but if you go to missouri quilts and watch the tut for the Dresden Plate, she shows you how to do it towards the end when she is hand sewing the plate to the fabric.
04-27-2011, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by garysgal
There is a type of hand sewing that you can try. I saw it on a tut but have been doing it for years. You insert your needle into the seam but do it so that the know doesn't show. Then run the needle a little ways under the fabric and come out with the needle and into the seam opposite. Run the needle a little ways and come out and into the seam opposite. Make the little ways very little. It's hard to explain, but if you go to missouri quilts and watch the tut for the Dresden Plate, she shows you how to do it towards the end when she is hand sewing the plate to the fabric.
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