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On Point, the final frontier

Back on 9/18, I asked how to keep the bias cut edges of my on point quilt from wavering. Here's what I asked:

I am using a pattern by Anne Gallo and Susan

Raban in Fons & P Nov '04. I really thought I had carefully studied it before I began and that everything appeared to be well-planned. The outside corners of the quilt's top are cut right (to my way of thinking). Only those 4 pieces have the straight-of-grain where it should be. When I re-read the instruction: trim edges straight (with a diagram showing all of the outside points being cut away) all of my brain's warning beepers started alarming. No stretching has happened. I just want to be Certain that none does. <

Thanks to great guidance from you all, the quilt is finished and it is a beauty. Before I trimmed the excess off the outside edges, I drew a pencil line where I wanted the cut edge of the border to go. (That took some thinking but I can do that sometimes.) With the SM foot pressure set so it wouldn't scoot or stretch the quilt top, I stitched the border on and then trimmed the points off. Ah. Perfection. Part of my success, methinks, is that both the quilt pieces and the border were very firmly woven fabrics. If one or both had been soft or mushy, I might have been in big trouble. Polly

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Polly Esther
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nzlstar*

Well, Jeanne, I can't wait until the toy makers come out with a digital camera for toddlers (which would be about my photographer level); reckon I'll just have to lean on my grownup friends to make a picture . . . and Leslie's off making an emergency floral quilt. It may take a while. Polly

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Polly Esther

I did something similar to this recently, I had set some blocks on point within 4 triangles to make bigger blocks, then I was going to get rid of the corners and replace with a piece triangle, such that when the right bits were added to the sashing I got a block design (which I've never seen a name for) appearing at the junctions, but I wasn't sure I could do it accurately and did a bit of thinking, I switched the small half square triangles that would have been the diagonal for squares, then drew the diagonal in, without trimming the block I was stitching it too, I placed it as you would a snowball corner then trimmed the seam,they came out really good, I was pretty chuffed!

Anne

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Anne Rogers

Well I must tell you they have... at least here in Canada. Fisher Price I do believe. Just like their old tape players... drop it down the stairs and it stays safe. Not sure it would help my problems however... some of us were never meant to take a picture (pointing at myself with very large arrows)

Carissa

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Carissa

Glad to hear all went well, Polly. Good idea to sew before cutting - same principle as stay stitching, but saves a lot of thread! Good thinking. . In message , Polly Esther writes

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Patti

Congratulations, Polly! I'm glad to hear that it all came out okay -- just wish we could see it! :)

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Sandy

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