Is a miter a 45 degree or 60 degree angle? I know this is stupid beyond words, but I can't think this morning and I'm trying to miter and nothing looks right and if I rip one more seam I'm going to fling my sewing machine right out the window.
Sunny
A miter can be any angle, depends on where you are putting it. A mitered corner on a square or rectagle is 45 degree. Don't throw the machine.
LOL
Karen, Queen of Squishies
Thank you! I will return to my cave and begin again with renewed conviction that I must make 45 degrees work. Not 47.5. LOL
Sunny
presuming it's at a right angled corner, it's 45, but remember that you need to add seam allowances like you would a half square triangle. Definitely a time for marking the end of the seam, I use a pigma pen if it will show up and one of those white ones if it won't.
Cheers Anne
Anne, oh that this was so simple. I have backed myself into a ridiculous corner. I suspect once the wallhanging is done, nobody but me will ever realize what a twisted bit of mess it is between the front and back. I hope. But.... this comes of me trying to do something way beyond my capability and refusing to take no for an answer. If it comes out looking sort of ok, I'll post a pic. Maybe it will become a cautionary illustration.
Sunny
Sounds like a day not to do sewing, Sunny >g< . In message , Sunny writes
It's 45° if you have only right angles. In my Baravelle Spiral quilt, I had 60° angles because of the six sides. Remember how Polly always swears her quilts have more than four corners? Mine really did have six! :O
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