Seems I published my last post 3 times!?! I hit publish and it went to a blank post, going to dashboard it showed my post as draft so I went in and hit Publish again same result. So I closed then went back in -- still at draft. Repeated the process a 3rd time. After that final publish where it finally took me back to dashboard after publish it showed 3 publishes of the same post. Gahhhh... so if you saw my post mulitple times last weekend I do apologize.
I didn't get my Christmas quilt sandwiched during the week as I hoped. Saturday was a lot of running around, Sunday morning cleaning while Chris did the groceries. I finally brought the backing, batting and top downstairs Sunday afternoon and got it done using spray adhesive then pinned. I have some leftover backing that I will have to make a mini quilt for the dogs with. As soon as I layed it down the dogs were all over it. I don't blame them the backing is incredibly soft. I had thought about how I was going to quilt it while watching season 2 marathon of The Fall on Netflix. I think I'm going to start by an all over stitch in the ditch and go from there. I may make the mini quilt first, quilt it and see how it looks from the back before start in on the lap quilt. As you can see in the picture there are two identical blocks side by side. The only rule I set for myself on block placement was no two blocks the same side by side. I didn't catch it until I uploaded this picture. Don't you love the flash glaring off the pin -the joys of flash photography using your cell.
What I learned this week from other peoples posts: Stitch in the ditch is actually stitching in the ditch created from pressing to the side. I thought it meant stitching directly over your seam. There was a huge discussion about it on one of the groups I follow on Facebook. As expected there was some differing of opinions which caused the post to be closed to further comments to end the nastiness that had started. The explanation was that stitching directly on your seams can split the thread and weaken the seam but beside the seam strengthens. A few that sew directly on the seam brought up a few other well known quilters that teach to sew on the seam but it was pointed out they all press seams open which changes the rule. This is where I got confused - wouldn't that also cause weakness to your thread and therefore seam?
Honestly, when I'm quilting stitch in the ditch 1/4 end up on the seam, then others one side or the other... and lastly, the ones that end up no where near the seam so that would make me doing it right about 1/4 of the time no matter how you look at it. To loosely paraphrase the admin of the group her final thought was: do what you feel is right and if you sew on the seam and never had an issue keep on keeping on.
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