Unquilting

Ok, I may be the only one who has ever unquilted a vast expanse of a
quilt because of a discovered problem that just couldn't be fixed,
appliqued over, hidden by excessive beading.

But maybe I'm not the only one.

If you've ever unquilted something, I'd love to hear your story. I
promise, I'll never tell a soul.

Sunny

I haven't done it yet, Sunny, because I'm putting it off; but there is
one waiting to be done. The whole thing just didn't work - I have to
start again.
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Ok, I may be the only one who has ever unquilted a vast expanse of a
quilt because of a discovered problem that just couldn't be fixed,
appliqued over, hidden by excessive beading.

But maybe I'm not the only one.

If you've ever unquilted something, I'd love to hear your story. I
promise, I'll never tell a soul.

Sunny


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Best Regards
pat on the hill

On Aug 11, 1:36 am, Sunny wrote:
Ok, I may be the only one who has ever unquilted a vast expanse of a
quilt because of a discovered problem that just couldn't be fixed,
appliqued over, hidden by excessive beading.

But maybe I'm not the only one.

If you've ever unquilted something, I'd love to hear your story. I
promise, I'll never tell a soul.

Sunny

Just last night I ripped out 2 Looong seams, 60+ inches each, after
deciding that the resulting series of 2 joined runs of squares, "just
didnt look right". Stayed up past my normal bed time to, "make the set
of squares look right". Went to be satisfied that all the effort was
worth the frog noise. rippit, rippit, rippit.


John

Usually my pin basting is reliable, but nobody's perfect. And I don't mind
the occasional teensy tuck. But one day I was machine quilting along, free
motion spirals, really making progress. Took a break, turned it over to
admire my work, and blimey! A vast pleat running diagonally through all the
part I had just finished quilting. All had to come out :-p
Roberta in D

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Ok, I may be the only one who has ever unquilted a vast expanse of a
quilt because of a discovered problem that just couldn't be fixed,
appliqued over, hidden by excessive beading.

But maybe I'm not the only one.

If you've ever unquilted something, I'd love to hear your story. I
promise, I'll never tell a soul.

Sunny

I have one that's waiting for me to finish unquilting it.

--
Mary
http://community.webshots.com/user/mardor1948
"Sunny" wrote in message
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: Ok, I may be the only one who has ever unquilted a vast expanse of a
: quilt because of a discovered problem that just couldn't be fixed,
: appliqued over, hidden by excessive beading.
:
: But maybe I'm not the only one.
:
: If you've ever unquilted something, I'd love to hear your story. I
: promise, I'll never tell a soul.
:
: Sunny
:

On Aug 10, 11:36?pm, Sunny wrote:
Ok, I may be the only one who has ever unquilted a vast expanse of a
quilt because of a discovered problem that just couldn't be fixed,
appliqued over, hidden by excessive beading.

But maybe I'm not the only one.

If you've ever unquilted something, I'd love to hear your story. I
promise, I'll never tell a soul.

Sunny

Years ago we did a charity quilt that was sent to a quilter. When it
was returned for binding the group decided it was too awful to leave
that way and took it all out. I wasn't really a part of the group but
remember reading about it.

Several years ago I purchased a quilt made overseas, which I normally
never consider, but the colors and fabrics and overall pattern were
lovely. However, the quilting was simply horrendous! I put it away
in a closet, and last winter when I was between projects I pulled it
out of the closet and quilted it properly, keeping the original
quilting only as basting and pulling it out as I quilted. I also
replaced the binding, which was truly awful. Now -- I have a very
attractive extra quilt folded at the bottom of a bed in the smaller
guest room.

Woot! I'm feeling better and better! And by the way, there is a book
(I can't remember which one or by what author) who recommends using
one of your "decorative" stitches for quilting in areas where you want
gentle curve lines. Just don't do it. A stitch that looks great over a
few inches or covering a seam line in a crazy quilt will look just
horrendus if you try to use it to make a "gentle c urve" line that
goes from t op to bottom of your quilt.

Hugs and sharper stitch rippers,
Sunny



On Aug 11, 8:38 am, Mary wrote:
Several years ago I purchased a quilt made overseas, which I normally
never consider, but the colors and fabrics and overall pattern were
lovely. However, the quilting was simply horrendous! I put it away
in a closet, and last winter when I was between projects I pulled it
out of the closet and quilted it properly, keeping the original
quilting only as basting and pulling it out as I quilted. I also
replaced the binding, which was truly awful. Now -- I have a very
attractive extra quilt folded at the bottom of a bed in the smaller
guest room.

In article . com,
Sunny wrote:

Ok, I may be the only one who has ever unquilted a vast expanse of a
quilt because of a discovered problem that just couldn't be fixed,
appliqued over, hidden by excessive beading.

But maybe I'm not the only one.

If you've ever unquilted something, I'd love to hear your story. I
promise, I'll never tell a soul.

Sunny


Sunny, I haven't unquilted a vast expanse of a quilt, but I have done my
share of unquilting! It's not fun while I'm doing it, but I always end
up glad I did it. Best of luck! Need chocolate?

--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
sfoster 1 (at) earthlink (dot) net (remove/change the obvious)
http://www.sandymike.net

I have unquilted several times. And sometimes I have just kept the
quilting and made the piece a QI throw or a kick-around-drag-around
for picnics

We all have to un-quilt sometimes, big or small places. It's just one
of those things.

Sandy is sending chocolate, I can send Good N Plenty!

Ginger in CA
On Aug 10, 10:36 pm, Sunny wrote:
Ok, I may be the only one who has ever unquilted a vast expanse of a
quilt because of a discovered problem that just couldn't be fixed,
appliqued over, hidden by excessive beading.

But maybe I'm not the only one.

If you've ever unquilted something, I'd love to hear your story. I
promise, I'll never tell a soul.

Sunny