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Your favorite trick?
My grandmother would call this an "old Indian trick". She didn't worry
about being politically correct since she was an American Indian. Anyhow . .. . I just set 28 beautiful sampler squares on point. Generally, the outside of the squares are ivory. The setting triangles are so dark green that they are almost black. Naturally, any oops would show. Even from a horse galloping by at least 15 feet away. They needed to be perfect. My Bernina does not take kindly to stitching over pins so I hauled out my favorite old Indian trick. I weaved a fine needle through the stitching for about 3/8" of the opposing seams to hold everything steady. Voila! (or viola, whichever) Yesss. Every one of those rascals is standing up perfectly on point. There was the tiny problem of finding that fine needle after stitching so I finally threaded it with about 3" red thread so it was easy to remove and proceed. Do you have a trick we need to know about? Polly |
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Your favorite trick?
read that twice and still none the wiser.
maybe i need some caffeine or maybe someone else who got it could splain it so i understand it. i'm assuming you were talking about sewing seams similar to 2 x 2 patches into a single 4 patch block. i make sure the upper seam allowance goes under the needle first, then i have control over it. the lower seam that i can not see or control follows behind. the presser foot shoves the top fabric towards you, the feed dogs pull the lower fabric away from you and those nested seams snuggle into one another ever so sweetly. shrug, j. "Polly Esther" wrote... My grandmother would call this an "old Indian trick". She didn't worry about being politically correct since she was an American Indian. Anyhow . . . I just set 28 beautiful sampler squares on point. Generally, the outside of the squares are ivory. The setting triangles are so dark green that they are almost black. Naturally, any oops would show. Even from a horse galloping by at least 15 feet away. They needed to be perfect. My Bernina does not take kindly to stitching over pins so I hauled out my favorite old Indian trick. I weaved a fine needle through the stitching for about 3/8" of the opposing seams to hold everything steady. Voila! (or viola, whichever) Yesss. Every one of those rascals is standing up perfectly on point. There was the tiny problem of finding that fine needle after stitching so I finally threaded it with about 3" red thread so it was easy to remove and proceed. Do you have a trick we need to know about? Polly |
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Your favorite trick?
Yes, Jeanne. Another cup of caffeine sounds good. In a perfect world, you
can press the seams so that they nestle and everything comes out perfect. Sometimes, it just doesn't happen. This quilt top had too many seams needing to go the same way or the wrong way or so they couldn't be seen and angles coming in from all directions. These blocks were more like robbing a bank and shouting 'Nobody move'. Polly "nzlstar*" wrote in message ... read that twice and still none the wiser. maybe i need some caffeine or maybe someone else who got it could splain it so i understand it. i'm assuming you were talking about sewing seams similar to 2 x 2 patches into a single 4 patch block. i make sure the upper seam allowance goes under the needle first, then i have control over it. the lower seam that i can not see or control follows behind. the presser foot shoves the top fabric towards you, the feed dogs pull the lower fabric away from you and those nested seams snuggle into one another ever so sweetly. shrug, j. "Polly Esther" wrote... My grandmother would call this an "old Indian trick". She didn't worry about being politically correct since she was an American Indian. Anyhow . . . I just set 28 beautiful sampler squares on point. Generally, the outside of the squares are ivory. The setting triangles are so dark green that they are almost black. Naturally, any oops would show. Even from a horse galloping by at least 15 feet away. They needed to be perfect. My Bernina does not take kindly to stitching over pins so I hauled out my favorite old Indian trick. I weaved a fine needle through the stitching for about 3/8" of the opposing seams to hold everything steady. Voila! (or viola, whichever) Yesss. Every one of those rascals is standing up perfectly on point. There was the tiny problem of finding that fine needle after stitching so I finally threaded it with about 3" red thread so it was easy to remove and proceed. Do you have a trick we need to know about? Polly |
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Your favorite trick?
And that, dear Polly, is why you are making those blocks and I'm not.
I will drool over your quilt when you show it to us, but I could never, ever stick with something like that until I got it done. I so admire all of you who are "well a-pointed" quilters. All that nesting seams stuff just drives me crazy. Not good for somebody who probably needs Ritalin. Sunny |
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Your favorite trick?
Polly Esther wrote:
My Bernina does not take kindly to stitching over pins so I hauled out my favorite old Indian trick. I weaved a fine needle through the stitching for about 3/8" of the opposing seams to hold everything steady. Voila! (or viola, whichever) Yesss. Every one of those rascals is standing up perfectly on point. This is why I piece by hand. I can't get points to match to save my life using a machine! -- Anita -- |
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Your favorite trick?
Read about this in one of Carol Doak's books, she does a couple of little
stitches just at the seam intersections, checks to be sure they all match just right, then sews the whole seam. Easier taking out only a couple of stitches if you mess up. Roberta in D "Polly Esther" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... My grandmother would call this an "old Indian trick". She didn't worry about being politically correct since she was an American Indian. Anyhow . . . I just set 28 beautiful sampler squares on point. Generally, the outside of the squares are ivory. The setting triangles are so dark green that they are almost black. Naturally, any oops would show. Even from a horse galloping by at least 15 feet away. They needed to be perfect. My Bernina does not take kindly to stitching over pins so I hauled out my favorite old Indian trick. I weaved a fine needle through the stitching for about 3/8" of the opposing seams to hold everything steady. Voila! (or viola, whichever) Yesss. Every one of those rascals is standing up perfectly on point. There was the tiny problem of finding that fine needle after stitching so I finally threaded it with about 3" red thread so it was easy to remove and proceed. Do you have a trick we need to know about? Polly |
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Your favorite trick? HUH??????
Still befuddled. I will be happy to ooo and ahhhh if we ever get to see it,
but Polly doesn't have a camera, right? So who's to say all those points really match up. -- Boca Jan Florida - Land of the Hurricanes snipsnstitchesatyahoodotcom http://community.webshots.com/user/BocaJan "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... My grandmother would call this an "old Indian trick". She didn't worry about being politically correct since she was an American Indian. Anyhow . . . I just set 28 beautiful sampler squares on point. Generally, the outside of the squares are ivory. The setting triangles are so dark green that they are almost black. Naturally, any oops would show. Even from a horse galloping by at least 15 feet away. They needed to be perfect. My Bernina does not take kindly to stitching over pins so I hauled out my favorite old Indian trick. I weaved a fine needle through the stitching for about 3/8" of the opposing seams to hold everything steady. Voila! (or viola, whichever) Yesss. Every one of those rascals is standing up perfectly on point. There was the tiny problem of finding that fine needle after stitching so I finally threaded it with about 3" red thread so it was easy to remove and proceed. Do you have a trick we need to know about? Polly |
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Your favorite trick? HUH??????
If Polly says they all match up, then it's good enough for me! LOL (But I
sure wish she'd get a digi cam and show us her projects- reading about them just isn't as satisfying as seeing them!) I like to sew with a long basting type stitch. If something doesn't match, then it's easy to snip a few stitches, re-align the seams and baste again. When everything is good, then I sew over the basting stitches with my normal 18 st. per in. I sew v-e-r-y slowly over my pins. Why pin only to pull the pins out again before you sew the area you've just pinned??? Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. "Boca Jan" wrote in message . .. Still befuddled. I will be happy to ooo and ahhhh if we ever get to see it, but Polly doesn't have a camera, right? So who's to say all those points really match up. -- Boca Jan Florida - Land of the Hurricanes snipsnstitchesatyahoodotcom http://community.webshots.com/user/BocaJan "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... My grandmother would call this an "old Indian trick". She didn't worry about being politically correct since she was an American Indian. Anyhow . . . I just set 28 beautiful sampler squares on point. Generally, the outside of the squares are ivory. The setting triangles are so dark green that they are almost black. Naturally, any oops would show. Even from a horse galloping by at least 15 feet away. They needed to be perfect. My Bernina does not take kindly to stitching over pins so I hauled out my favorite old Indian trick. I weaved a fine needle through the stitching for about 3/8" of the opposing seams to hold everything steady. Voila! (or viola, whichever) Yesss. Every one of those rascals is standing up perfectly on point. There was the tiny problem of finding that fine needle after stitching so I finally threaded it with about 3" red thread so it was easy to remove and proceed. Do you have a trick we need to know about? Polly |
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Your favorite trick?
I have much better luck pressing my seams open, but that's just me. I can't
stand the "hump". Cindy "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... My grandmother would call this an "old Indian trick". She didn't worry about being politically correct since she was an American Indian. Anyhow . . . I just set 28 beautiful sampler squares on point. Generally, the outside of the squares are ivory. The setting triangles are so dark green that they are almost black. Naturally, any oops would show. Even from a horse galloping by at least 15 feet away. They needed to be perfect. My Bernina does not take kindly to stitching over pins so I hauled out my favorite old Indian trick. I weaved a fine needle through the stitching for about 3/8" of the opposing seams to hold everything steady. Voila! (or viola, whichever) Yesss. Every one of those rascals is standing up perfectly on point. There was the tiny problem of finding that fine needle after stitching so I finally threaded it with about 3" red thread so it was easy to remove and proceed. Do you have a trick we need to know about? Polly |
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Your favorite trick? HUH??????
EGADS! did some one cast doubts on Polly's claim to perfect points? *gasp*
Bring me my salts! ~fanning~ However, I too desperately wish Polly would get a camera and post photos ....if only to see how long it takes for some of her pictures to show up on the 10 o'clock news. *snort!* I can set in a perfect sleeve using just one pin or no pins at all (another old Indian trick) and I sew over pins at full speed ahead, in fact a great deal of my sewing is 'hammer down-full speed ahead. (Probably why I will never make it into the Quilting Hall of Fame.) BUT, for really persnickety stuff I baste. I've found that spot on accuracy doesn't happen with pins, just the pin going through fabric can wonk up a "to the gnat's a** exact match". A fine needle and single strand thread is tantamount to a procedure where "this'll work" is not accurate enough. If you don't have time to do it right the first time, where does the time come from to re-do it over, and over, and over.........? Val "Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." wrote in message ... If Polly says they all match up, then it's good enough for me! LOL (But I sure wish she'd get a digi cam and show us her projects- reading about them just isn't as satisfying as seeing them!) I like to sew with a long basting type stitch. If something doesn't match, then it's easy to snip a few stitches, re-align the seams and baste again. When everything is good, then I sew over the basting stitches with my normal 18 st. per in. I sew v-e-r-y slowly over my pins. Why pin only to pull the pins out again before you sew the area you've just pinned??? Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. "Boca Jan" wrote in message . .. Still befuddled. I will be happy to ooo and ahhhh if we ever get to see it, but Polly doesn't have a camera, right? So who's to say all those points really match up. -- Boca Jan Florida - Land of the Hurricanes snipsnstitchesatyahoodotcom http://community.webshots.com/user/BocaJan "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... My grandmother would call this an "old Indian trick". She didn't worry about being politically correct since she was an American Indian. Anyhow . . . I just set 28 beautiful sampler squares on point. Generally, the outside of the squares are ivory. The setting triangles are so dark green that they are almost black. Naturally, any oops would show. Even from a horse galloping by at least 15 feet away. They needed to be perfect. My Bernina does not take kindly to stitching over pins so I hauled out my favorite old Indian trick. I weaved a fine needle through the stitching for about 3/8" of the opposing seams to hold everything steady. Voila! (or viola, whichever) Yesss. Every one of those rascals is standing up perfectly on point. There was the tiny problem of finding that fine needle after stitching so I finally threaded it with about 3" red thread so it was easy to remove and proceed. Do you have a trick we need to know about? Polly |
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