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mitered corners
I've never been particularly good at mitered corners. I've never been
so terrible that I've worried about them, but I've known that they don't come out with that perfect 45 degree angle. This has never bothered me particularly. If it did, I'd put effort into figuring out how to do them right, but I've noticed. My quilts have been for beds where the mitered corner has no effect on how well the quilt wears or for wall hangings where I can't see that the corner is a huge distraction. My first quilt teacher taught me to cut bias strips 2 1/4" wide, fold in half, iron, machine sew to the front, hand sew down on the back. You know the drill. Later I learned not to bother with the bias but to cut on the straight of grain and cut to 2 1/2". I didn't see much difference. The other day, just to be perverse, I cut the strips exactly 2 3/8" wide. To my amazement, every miter came out perfectly. I didn't struggle or redo or rip out or pay special attention. Nada. I just used 2 3/8" strips and watched as 4 corners lined up with perfect 45" angles. I thought I'd pass this on. --Lia |
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On Wed, 19 May 2004 00:59:27 GMT, Julia Altshuler
wrote: I've never been particularly good at mitered corners. I've never been so terrible that I've worried about them, but I've known that they don't come out with that perfect 45 degree angle. This has never bothered me particularly. If it did, I'd put effort into figuring out how to do them right, but I've noticed. My quilts have been for beds where the mitered corner has no effect on how well the quilt wears or for wall hangings where I can't see that the corner is a huge distraction. My first quilt teacher taught me to cut bias strips 2 1/4" wide, fold in half, iron, machine sew to the front, hand sew down on the back. You know the drill. Later I learned not to bother with the bias but to cut on the straight of grain and cut to 2 1/2". I didn't see much difference. The other day, just to be perverse, I cut the strips exactly 2 3/8" wide. To my amazement, every miter came out perfectly. I didn't struggle or redo or rip out or pay special attention. Nada. I just used 2 3/8" strips and watched as 4 corners lined up with perfect 45" angles. I thought I'd pass this on. --Lia Have you found the holy grail of mitered corners? Maybe I'll have to try this. I have 2 baby quilts cut out and haven't done the binding yet... -- Jo in Scotland |
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Johanna Gibson wrote:
Have you found the holy grail of mitered corners? Maybe I'll have to try this. I have 2 baby quilts cut out and haven't done the binding yet. For baby quilts, the holy grail of bindings is a little different. Do everything as you're used to, but sew the binding to the BACK, mitering normally. Then machine stitch to the front using whatever decorative zigzag you like. Baby quilts get a lot of wear and the machine stitching adds to the strength. --Lia |
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In article nOyqc.3543$zw.2639@attbi_s01,
Julia Altshuler wrote: Johanna Gibson wrote: Have you found the holy grail of mitered corners? Maybe I'll have to try this. I have 2 baby quilts cut out and haven't done the binding yet. For baby quilts, the holy grail of bindings is a little different. Do everything as you're used to, but sew the binding to the BACK, mitering normally. Then machine stitch to the front using whatever decorative zigzag you like. Baby quilts get a lot of wear and the machine stitching adds to the strength. --Lia That's for sure, Lia! I made baby quilts the "old" way, by machine stitching on the front and hand stitching on the back, and I've had to redo each one of them. Now I machine stitch both. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 |
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Mama Mia, Lia! At last a possible answer to my ucky mitered corners! I'm
going to try it. Saved your email just for that special next quilt. Many thanks, Lia, I'll post here if it works (and if it doesn't). -- Carolyn in The Old Pueblo If it ain't broke, you're not trying. --Red Green If it ain't broke, it ain't mine. --Carolyn McCarty If at first you don't succeed, switch to power tools. --Red Green If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer. --Carolyn McCarty "Julia Altshuler" wrote in message news:Pjyqc.76571$iF6.6427536@attbi_s02... I've never been particularly good at mitered corners. I've never been so terrible that I've worried about them, but I've known that they don't come out with that perfect 45 degree angle. This has never bothered me particularly. If it did, I'd put effort into figuring out how to do them right, but I've noticed. My quilts have been for beds where the mitered corner has no effect on how well the quilt wears or for wall hangings where I can't see that the corner is a huge distraction. My first quilt teacher taught me to cut bias strips 2 1/4" wide, fold in half, iron, machine sew to the front, hand sew down on the back. You know the drill. Later I learned not to bother with the bias but to cut on the straight of grain and cut to 2 1/2". I didn't see much difference. The other day, just to be perverse, I cut the strips exactly 2 3/8" wide. To my amazement, every miter came out perfectly. I didn't struggle or redo or rip out or pay special attention. Nada. I just used 2 3/8" strips and watched as 4 corners lined up with perfect 45" angles. I thought I'd pass this on. --Lia |
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I always do it the old fashioned way, bias binding, machine sewn to the
front, blind stitched by hand to the back, for all quilts. I guess I could stop doing it for WHs... No reports of the binding coming apart yet in any of my baby quilts, though. I'll let you know. The binding in Sofia's is so narrow and pretty with the piping that decorative stitching would have ruined it, so even if I started it after I read this post, I still did it in my old traditional way... (see, I DO like traditions some times... ) Sandy Foster wrote: In article nOyqc.3543$zw.2639@attbi_s01, Julia Altshuler wrote: Johanna Gibson wrote: Have you found the holy grail of mitered corners? Maybe I'll have to try this. I have 2 baby quilts cut out and haven't done the binding yet. For baby quilts, the holy grail of bindings is a little different. Do everything as you're used to, but sew the binding to the BACK, mitering normally. Then machine stitch to the front using whatever decorative zigzag you like. Baby quilts get a lot of wear and the machine stitching adds to the strength. --Lia That's for sure, Lia! I made baby quilts the "old" way, by machine stitching on the front and hand stitching on the back, and I've had to redo each one of them. Now I machine stitch both. -- Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali (take the dog out before replying) |
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