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May 21st, 2012, 11:54 PM
#1
Senior Member
Quilting Royalty
1/4 seam not as scant as I thought
New to quilting and have made a couple of rag quilts and a fence rail. Decided to try something with more piecing. Found pattern called Taking Turns in quilting magazine that included a four patch a couple of blocks and some sashing. How hard could it be?
Spent the day cutting and put the first block together only to find out that what I thought was a scant 1/4 inch wasn't. Went back to basics and finally got needle position set and after becoming friends with seam ripper tried again. Got closer the second time. With practice I'm sure it will get better but right now it's close enough
. Time to walk away and start again tomorrow.
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May 22nd, 2012, 12:05 AM
#2
Senior Member
Missouri Star
Re: 1/4 seam not as scant as I thought
Janet you got more than one lesson today.. not only did you learn about 1/4 seams you learned that good enough is sometimes good enough. kellie
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May 22nd, 2012, 12:50 AM
#3
Senior Member
Missouri Star
Re: 1/4 seam not as scant as I thought
And sometimes, there's days when you should just 'STEP AWAY FROM the SEWING MACINE'....lol
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May 22nd, 2012, 01:00 AM
#4
Senior Member
Missouri Star
Re: 1/4 seam not as scant as I thought
I don't know who came up with the "scant 1/4 seam" but they should be shot!!!
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May 22nd, 2012, 01:08 AM
#5
Senior Member
Missouri Star
Re: 1/4 seam not as scant as I thought
I second that Auntpigglypn. I never do a scant, as long as you are consistent your pieces should fit. Unless your doing HST then there's no help lol you kinda get what you get! I have a 1/4 foot and use it on all piecing and it has made quilting so less stressful, after all it should be fun!! Happy Quilting!
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May 22nd, 2012, 04:20 PM
#6
Senior Member
Quilting Royalty
Re: 1/4 seam not as scant as I thought
Well piecing went better today. I use my needle position to the right and the edge of my presser foot as my guide, guess I wasn't being as consistent as I thought so put some masking tape down as a guide. Seams are fitting together better. Thanks for your support. Janet ;-)
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May 22nd, 2012, 08:02 PM
#7
Senior Member
Missouri Star
Re: 1/4 seam not as scant as I thought
My old arch enemy the scant!!! I learned it the hard way. Lost a bunch of points on my stars on one of my quilts. Once I figured out how to set it up properly though, no problems. Think I may just tackle that star quilt again too.....
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