Alex Anderson presses from the front so she won't get tucks too. We're going to have quite a fine crowd in jail. Polly
"Jeri" I get in trouble with a lesser known branch of the quilt police.....the
LOL, ya'll are actin' like the QP are BAD!!
I don't know how many times I've wished there were a Fine Art Police Department ... someone to come along and tell you when it's PERFECT and to let your inner paranoid demons rest and not make you ruin a good thing!!
I've even wished for a QPD!! Someone to tell me it's great as is and to stop worryin' it like a starvin' dog with a bone!! :)
Hugs!! Connie :)
I don't use the iron to press as I go. Yep, I finger press a lot, and get up to the iron often only when blocks are finished. There are exceptions, please note. And in the class I had with Flavin Glover in Houston she said she doesn't press every seam either. Over pressing can be as bad as underpressing.
As far as crossing over your quilting lines........ it is true that "true" stippling or meander quilting isn't supposed to have crossed over lines, but every grid does.
Pati, > Last month I was showing an elderly friend how to machine quilt, Just
Same here :). And when my fabric comes out of the dryer, I smooth it out and fold it without pressing it. And if it's not really wrinkled when I use it, I don't press before cutting.
Julia > Uh.... I do almost all my bindings by machine (shhhh!).
I have been known to use polyester thread to piece with. I cut without regard to grainline on occasion too. How about using the serger to trim the sandwich before binding?
Pati, > Last month I was showing an elderly friend how to machine quilt, Just
We're going to need more M&Ms. *sigh*
Val
"FAP" is the sound my DH's jaw makes hitting the floor when I tell him a painting is not finished yet. The only problem is he tells me that at every step of the way. Preliminary sketch-"Ooo! that's great! Leave it alone." Grisaille "That is fantasitic, leave it alone". Every single glaze gets "I love that! Leave it alone."! Makes me think even harder about the possibility of going back to oil now that I have totally lockable studio space. I would proably have to kill him, what with the length of time it takes some oil layers to dry enough for the next glaze.
A least with a quilt he knows it has to be of a certain size before it is finished!
And by they way I am going into the holiday season with not a single gown nor portrait on my plate. I now know the economy is officially hosed.
NightMist humm>LOL, ya'll are actin' like the QP are BAD!!
Huh? I was taught always to press from the front. But sometimes I turn mine over and press from the back if a seam is stubborn. I thought I was the one breaking a rule.
Sunny
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:18:06 -0600, Polly Esther wrote (in article ):
And I use lots and lots and lots of steam. Another no, no that I've been told. But I get nice flat seams.
Maureen
P.S. I don't "press to the dark" either. I let those seams go where they wanna go.
I also press from the front..... and (horrors) I sometimes even move the iron while it is down on the fabric!!!!! As long as you are very careful to move the iron along the grain of the fabric you can "get away" with "ironing" on occasion.
Pati, > >> Alex Anderson presses from the front so she won't get tucks too. We're
Good grief -if there were any quilt police, we'd all be in for life with no parole :-) Most of the "rules" exist because they tend to help most people avoid bloopers (e.g. less chance of little tucks if you don't cross your quilting lines). But if you CAN do it with no bloopers, why ever not? And just think of all the people who made rather difficult quilts the first time they tried, just because nobody ever told them the design was "too hard". Roberta in D
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Things I do that will make some quilters gasp:
Adding an extra applique piece slightly over another one so that it covers a mistake made when sewing the first applique. Works great when doing flowers and leaves. (The rule: Rip out the offending piece and re-apply it correctly.)
Not using a block pattern template to properly lay out my applique pieces perfectly before sewing them to the background. (Rule: All blocks should be made with perfectly placed pieces.)
Fudging seam allowances to make a quilt top out of slightly different sized blocks. (The rule: Trim all blocks exactly the same before sewing them together.)
Wrapped binding rather than a separate binding. (Rule: Use only bias binding.)
Poly-cotton thread (Rule: 100 percent cotton only)
Poly batting--not that flatter than a pancake type of cotton batting. (there's that 100 percent cotton only rule being broken again)
Sewing on a Shark Euro Pro machine that I bought new for under $200. (Rule: Real quilters only use machines that cost $500 or more, or a vintage Singer.)
Debra in VA See my quilts at
Every quilt I used or saw as a child had that kind of wrapped binding. I tried bias binding once, on my first quilt, and it was hateful and contrary to apply to the quilt. I've done wrapped binding ever since I first tried it on my second quilt because I found it so fast and easy. I'm not making heirlooms, but I'm not making utility quilts either. Debra in VA See my quilts at
OMG! I'm not supposed to do that either? Ah, well, I'll just be in the cell next to yours. Debra in VA See my quilts at
I thought Mom would go nuts the last time she was over. She had a fit because I was using a dry iron. Debra in VA See my quilts at
She hadn't better come to my house. I have a 'flat dry iron'...without steam holes. I want 'steam' I use my spritzer. don't have to worry on hot blobs of water on my fabric, it's lighter, and I don't have to worry on circles of loose interfacing.
They aren't going to have room for all of us.
Butterfly
Now, seriously, we need beverage warnings on some of these replies!!!
Liquor filled chocolate and walking away in a sure footed direction while looking the other way, seems like an oxymoron ;)
Everytime someone mentions Quilt Police I recall fondly the day we met at meSue's house in Burbank, and had a motor officer from Burbank Police [yep an honest-to-goodness cop] stop and help us take a group picture on the front lawn. Our own Mz Sairey ran over to him in her shy way and startled the poor man by yelling "Quilt Police!!!" in a drawl thick enough to drape the trees. When we all went into a line dance he just sat there shaking his head.
G> Reliable RCTQ sources of unfounded rumor has it there are no Quilt Police so
I know there are a few more options, but I haven't tried them yet. I like to try new methods on small quilts, but all the ones I have to finish right now are queen size or bigger. DH's space quilt top is so huge I'm not sure I'll be able to machine quilt it. It will be contrary to quilt anyway because of the glow in the dark dots on the constellation print backing. Debra in VA See my quilts at
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