You might ask how it all ends in Disaster if I have a incredibly cute quilt to show for my efforts. Simple I got my quilt done and then I washed it. Well that does not seem so bad how did it all crash and burn.
I took my quilt out side to take pictures on the back lawn (I cant believe it is green already) I had a lot of fun and got some great pictures (more of them below) when all of a sudden I stop the above seam. I hate when I do this. I hate it even more when I don't notice it at a point that it could be easier to fix. My guess looking at it I must have when sewing my 2 triangle rows together had a seam that caught just barely on the edge. During the wash it fizzled out and wamo I have a hole in my quilt.
I have fixed bobo's in the past in various ways. The most horrible of which is just a bunch of ugly zig zags to hold my hole together and better was applique something cute over the hole (if you cant see it I am sure its not there) but heck what would look good with all of my triangles?
Any way with the pouting of my mess out of the way I want to show off my wonderful messed up quilt. The back looks totally amazing with the echo quilted triangles over my yellow minky back.
I toyed around with quilting the edges and keeping the triangles intact. But in the end I chopped them off. I leaned a lot from doing these triangles and will be making more of them.
Some of your prints have large circles in them that could be fussy cut out if you have extra. I would use them as an applique - not just on the hole, but scatter a few so it looks like a 'planned' affect rather than a fix.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you could applique some fun, funky flowers around the quilt top, and cover that seam in the process. It still looks cute. Sorry, I know it's frustrating to find that.
ReplyDeleteI have tossed fairly large pieces of fabric because they frayed like that. It is so so so annoying. And truly, short of applique I have been unable to do an invisible repair. I'm warming to the triangles-may have to give it a whirl. Any advice for cutting them well without the fancy ruler ?
ReplyDeleteThis quilt of yours is a beauty with its mix of bright springlike colors. The straight edges look great. And a gazillion times easier to bind !~!
Oh how frustrating! And it is such a lovely quilt. I will be watching to see what you end up doing here. Will probably need this info myself one day!
ReplyDeleteOh bummer! I hate when that happens....it does look pretty fabulous despite the hole:) I think some lettering, like initials or a name would cover it well, if you know who its for??? Thanks so much for quilting along with me!
ReplyDeleteI still think that the quilt is lovely. Only the maker usually sees the imperfections.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry about the oops but I like Sharon's suggestion. It would look like you planned to do that.
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