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Posted by Julia in MN on June 30, 2009, 3:32 pm
That's exactly what I did for this quilt, though the picture is before
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quilting and binding <http://webpages.charter.net/jaccola/Scrappy.JPG>.
I really like the effect it has on such a scrappy quilt.
Julia in MN
Taria wrote:
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> I usually have plenty of what I am working with so I tend to just cut an
> extra
> length after a sort of guestimate as to how much I'll need. If you take all
> those
> ends (which are not too very short) and stitch them together they make a fun
> binding for a scrappy quilt. I have a ziplock that I save them all back in.
> Taria
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>> Well, yes, Jeanne, it does seem like heaps too much but I over estimate
>> too. Some folks can't bear leftovers; some of us are just more comfortable
>> with them.
>> As to having a seam hit at a corner, that's easy enough to avoid.
>> About 9" before a corner, you just check and be sure that a seam isn't
>> going to gum up the works. If so, that's a good time to cut out some
>> length to force the seam to happen sooner. (We started out with enough to
>> do that.) Polly
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> too. Some folks can't bear leftovers; some of us are just more comfortable
> with them.
> As to having a seam hit at a corner, that's easy enough to avoid.
> About 9" before a corner, you just check and be sure that a seam isn't
> going to gum up the works. If so, that's a good time to cut out some
> length to force the seam to happen sooner. (We started out with enough to
> do that.) Polly
>