What to do with the seams?

Sometimes I think my crappy quilting might have more to do with my crappy pressing.
While wasting time on the internet I came across this article regarding the merits of pressing one's seams open for all quilts...not just the one block wonders.

http://www.straw.com/equilters/library/techniques/SeamsOpen.html

Give it a read and let me know what you think.
It may be as controversial as pre-wash or not.

But I gained an inch

The star was supposed to be centered under the blue/white/blue border. oops. I measured twice. I guess it is important to make sure you measure the correct thing - not just anything.

On the edge

I wonder if anyone else has ever seriously considered cutting off the border of her quilt in order to avoid having to handquilt it?

Ugliest Quilt Entries

This is what happens when you don't have what you need in your stash for the special project you want to do, so you use what is available "because I really want to work on something - NOW"...
Odd that a SABLE (Stash accumulation beyond life expectancy) would have this issue. Maybe it isn't the stash - what if it is me??????

How do you lose two inches on the width of your quilt! After numerous screw ups early on I thought I had the measuring thing down but guess what, not! Was I measuring raw size, finished size? Who knows what I did but I am 2 inches short on my width and will have the toss out my planned pyramid border and come up with something different. CRAP

Crappy Quilters

The idea for this blog came when a group of us quilters lamented the fact that all of the blogs and all of the websites seem to only show what goes right in quilting. The quilts are lovely, the techniques looks correct, and all seems right in their quilting world.

Where are the pictures of how not to do something?

We think there are others like us who have to do it wrong before they get it right.

We quilt in a place where we lose power mid-stitch, we cannot get the fabric we need for our borders (more on the woes of borders), and if our machine should break we are screwed.

So this blog is devoted to what goes wrong.