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Subject: grandmother flower garden with plastic templatesPosted by kathy Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 22:37:03 Message: i am trying to make a grandmothers flower garden with the mylar pop-out templates. i have several flowers pieced. now i'm ready to join them together. how do you adjoin the two flowers with the plastic template still in place--they won't bend to adjoin the second side and your not suppose to take them out until you've whipped stitched all sides---any tricks to this? thanks kathy | |
 | RE: grandmother flower garden with plastic templates Posted by Melanie Saturday, August 23, 2003 at 00:03:53 Message: I've had the same problems when I join the flowers together, too. I end up kind of gently bending the one hexagon. Not enough to pull the fabric off, though. Of course, I cheat in the basting of the fabric onto the hexagons. My fingers just aren't nimble enough to hold the fabric steady while I baste it on, so I use a dab of glue from a washable glue stick to hold the fabric to the template. That glue helps hold the fabric on when I bend the template. Another option that I used the on the first Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt I made, was to put diamonds and triangles in between each flower. At the time I had to make my own triangles and diamonds templates, but I've seen them available now. I like the way that particular design came out, too. If not this time, maybe you'd like to try that another time. Anyway, I don't know of any other "trick" to making that join. | |
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