Here is Java Jitters all finished and hung on the wall. I think if I had used two strings it might have hung a bit straighter. It needs to be flattened out a bit maybe. It's my first wall hanging so I'm not sure what to do to make it look flatter.
Meanwhile I made a big mistake on Micha's quilt. I Pinned the backing and batting on and did a few rows of quilting. Then I was going to go to the house for a coffee break so I put it upside down on the table so I could sew in the ends when I came back to the studio. Imagine my horror when I realized that I had put the backing wrong way up when I pinned them together. There was a white serged seam in the middle of my pink backing. I decided that I would hand sew on a sashing strip rather than take it all apart. The fabric is hand dyed so it looks the same on both sides. I felt that there would be less damage on the front doing it that way rather than trying to remove the quilting stitches.
So... more hand sewing. I am pretty sick of it even after a small wall hanging. I'll work on it tomorrow. Tonight a movie if I can get the TV away from the hockey game!
3 comments:
Well, at first I was going to tell you that you paid as much for the back side of the fabric as the front, but then I saw that you had a serged line showing.....hmmm, the sashing on top of that seems to be just the ticket!
I don't understand what you mean about two "strings" when you talk about making the quilt hang straigher? But I do so love those Jitters!
I fastened a string to one end of the stick that is through the sleeve on the back and then tied it to the other end. It hangs from one nail. But if I put a string at each end of the stick and two nails it wouldn't be sort of scrunched up at each end near where the stick comes out. I saw on some blog that they used a flat rectangle of aluminum or plastic wiht a hole in each end so it would lay flat on the wall. I am probably giving it away anyhow so not my problem. Lol.
You can "block" the quilt to get it to lay flatter. Wash the quilt the way you normally would, but dry flat on towels.
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