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.
7 comments:
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.
Maybe 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.
I 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 ?
This 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!
Oh 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!
I still think that the quilt is lovely. Only the maker usually sees the imperfections.
So sorry about the oops but I like Sharon's suggestion. It would look like you planned to do that.
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