Rag quilt inquiry
09-04-2019, 07:52 AM
#11
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Fife Lake, MI
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Say the quilt will be blue on one side and pink on the other. You could sew the blocks together with the exposed seam on the pink side and sew the rows together with the seam exposed on the blue side.
09-04-2019, 09:34 AM
#12
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Join Date: Oct 2014
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Yes and it's easy to do. instead of sewing the two blocks together, over lap each block 1/4 - 1/2 inch wider then the rag will be and then sew it with each overlap on both sides of the seam. Do the same with each row, overlap both edges. You have an edge on the front and the back. It was how I made my first rag quilt using real denim from used Levi jeans using instructions from an old Farmer's magazine my grandmother use to get. That quilt is decades old in fact almost fifty five years old. I used heavy thread in my grandmother's treadle machine. The quilt is at my daughter's house last time I saw it.
09-04-2019, 01:55 PM
#13
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Grass Lake, MI and Bradenton, FL
Posts: 785
Yes and it's easy to do. instead of sewing the two blocks together, over lap each block 1/4 - 1/2 inch wider then the rag will be and then sew it with each overlap on both sides of the seam. Do the same with each row, overlap both edges. You have an edge on the front and the back. It was how I made my first rag quilt using real denim from used Levi jeans using instructions from an old Farmer's magazine my grandmother use to get. That quilt is decades old in fact almost fifty five years old. I used heavy thread in my grandmother's treadle machine. The quilt is at my daughter's house last time I saw it.
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