Monday, 12 November 2012
Look what I've done ...
... remember I said on Saturday that I was going to have to make a pieced backing for my Crazy Christmas Trees quilt? Well, here it is (sorry it needs ironing and I didn't smooth it out on the floor cos my knees didn't want to co-operate).
Since the backing wasn't large enough after I decided to add borders to the top, I had to stretch my backing fabric somehow. I remembered seeing somewhere that there was a way of doing this by cutting the fabric on the diagonal (John Flynn has a formula for this), but I decided to be clever and insert a strip made up of left overs from the front. I saw something similar done here, but I couldn't make the instructions work for me. After an SOS phone call to Bilbo, I knew how to do it. Thanks Bilbo for giving me the confidence to do something so far out of my usual comfort area. Next stage is to get Mr Fixit to set up Big Bertha, then I can get quilting on this and on my Festive Mystery quilt.
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Nice one!! I knew you'd be OK:}
ReplyDeleteIt will look wonderful quilted and you will have two-for-the-price-of-one! I regularly piece quilt backs and it's always a lovely surprise to find you have another quilt on the back of the first one :}
That's going to look fabulous!There is even an app for the John Flynn backing method.
ReplyDeleteLooks great, looking forward to seeing it all quilted!
ReplyDeleteGood for you! Love the piecing!
ReplyDeleteWay to Go! I love the colors of this quilt.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant that you could bring it all together with using the front fabric offcuts on the back. Looks like a million dollars. :-)
ReplyDeleteThank heavens for those rescue calls hu? Oh Mr. Fixit loads Bertha - well how about that. When I first got my frame I set about waiting for DH but discovered he takes to long to get to it!
ReplyDeleteSo did you use the formula? I've never seen this done on the back before - pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteLooks great Sue! I don't know about joining a backing on the diagonal; wouldn't that great fullness?
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ReplyDeleteYüz Germe