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- Mom of 4,,grandma of 7, married for 30 years,work full time as bus driver, 20 years now, and also work in cafeteria between bus runs.
Love to read and learning new things.....have basic knowledge of quilting, and love taking classes for it! Just need more hands on experience. have several tops together,,just not one finished!
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Easy How to make your triangles come out right..................
Help........trying to put a block together with triangles..........any one got a easy trick for me......put them together.....do the marking.......sew along 1/4 ....cut.....then when I try to put them in the block they won't match........am I doing something wrong...........any and all help appreciated!
Posted on June 17, 2009 at 10:32am — 4 Comments
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My oldest daughter doesn't have an interest yet in quilting but my 18 year old daughter loves to sew and has made a couple quilts. I wish you happy quilting!
Kim
I have been driving for 12 years.
Assuming you have checked the accuracy of your 1/4"the 1/4" quilting foot or my pfaff does NOT give me 1/4" seams, I have to move the needle to the right!), it might not be you! The pattern may be wrong. In that case, you can cut these pieces larger or smaller to fit the block. I found Fons and Porters triangle cutters very useful when I started...they are pink and blue, 1 ea, and guide you where to trim off any excess to you can accurately place your pieces together.
Welcome to the Quilt Frame. It looks like you're already getting some help with that triangle project. As you can see, you've come to the right place. I always feel like I'm sitting at a very large quilt frame listening to all the ideas and suggestions (and other bits of conversation). Its a great place to be and I'm glad you decided to join us. Joyce
Technically I should have called it Craft Night...we have quilters and knitters. Whoever wants to stay brings whatever they are working on (but you could get more organized and all work together on the same thing) and we sit around and chat and laugh! We all weigh in on each others projects or give hints to people just learning. It's great fun and we try and stay after work once a week.
Hope you have success getting something started.
I know, keep on trying!! Yes, of course that's the best. Between the site here and the sewing machine at home I am hooked!
Practice, practice, practice is what they say. I have much to practice but I started machine quilting on smaller items using just basic designs in small sections. Just have fun with it!
Where is Robinson anyway.... I live just south of Chicago.
You are getting ready to machine quilt for basically the first time. I just went through this and can share some ideas. First thing is make a small sandwiched square - about 2 feet square and practice on that. Secondly, you must use one of the feet that has a spring on it or you won't be able to control the quilting. Third of all - don't try to make designs in the beginning - just mosey around in the freemotion way, just stippling. Once you get that down, then you can make some patterns. It took me a couple of quilts with stippling before I could make any patterns and feel at all successful. The most important thing is to relax - if you are uptight about it - it shows very clearly in your work! Practice a little, then get brave and go for it! You can't go wrong. Oh - one last thing - in your stippling - decide up front if you are going for a tight look or a very well spaced - the broader the spacing the better it looks and really the less the mistakes show. I wear surgical gloves which gives me a grip on the fabric which also helps move it around. Just try it and have fun...
Let me know how it works for you...
Have a great day!
Carol from upstate NY