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Are you ready to start another new day with a new pattern? I hope so – life is great and affords us many opportunities to start fresh and new – and today is a great day to start making a new quilt: Ruffled Roses. Each month, you will find the pattern for part of this quilt online. Just print the instructions, cut, stitch, press… and before you know it, time will have passed, and you will be ready to enjoy your own Ruffled Roses quilt. What a wonderful way to start each month!

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TOPIC: Month Four (April) Ruffled Roses

Re: Month Four (April) Ruffled Roses 21 May 2012 16:24 #81038

eileenkny OFFLINE Posts: 1958 Thank you received: 124	Terry, it's beautiful! Good on ya for persisting with it.
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Re: Month Four (April) Ruffled Roses 21 May 2012 00:34 #81001

Lorna1021 OFFLINE Posts: 952 Thank you received: 105	That's beautiful!
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Re: Month Four (April) Ruffled Roses 14 May 2012 15:38 #80663

ritzy OFFLINE Posts: 2963 Thank you received: 82	Great job Terry!
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Re: Month Four (April) Ruffled Roses 14 May 2012 12:18 #80646

quilting00 OFFLINE Posts: 596 Thank you received: 89	Renata, it does!!! Thanks, Karen and Margo.
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Re: Month Four (April) Ruffled Roses 14 May 2012 10:24 #80638

Renata OFFLINE Posts: 2673 Thank you received: 260	Looks great, Terry, and bet it feels good to be there and square!
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Re: Month Four (April) Ruffled Roses 14 May 2012 10:14 #80637

kfstitcher OFFLINE Posts: 1463 Thank you received: 78	Looking very good Terry!
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Re: Month Four (April) Ruffled Roses 14 May 2012 06:17 #80622

Margo OFFLINE Posts: 6522 Thank you received: 129	Way to go, Terry! It looks wonderful!!
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Re: Month Four (April) Ruffled Roses 14 May 2012 01:13 #80615

quilting00 OFFLINE Posts: 596 Thank you received: 89	Month four is officially complete! I have to share that it took me lots of careful sewing some ripping; but I'm so pleased that it measures just what it is supposed to measure on ALL sides!
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Re: Month Four (April) Ruffled Roses 08 Aug 2011 06:40 #67856

Margo OFFLINE Posts: 6522 Thank you received: 129	cqteach wrote: Update.....tweaking was successful and I now have a 45" side border and 50" top border! Yeah. What a relief. I trimmed the 4 patch blocks. That is where my accuracy was off. Thanks so much for the help. Now to unsew the original side and complete the bottom one. This has been great learning. YEA!! Good for you!! Lots better than shrinking and/or stretching it to fit!!
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Re: Month Four (April) Ruffled Roses 08 Aug 2011 01:50 #67853

Zarah OFFLINE Posts: 1526 Thank you received: 30	cqteach wrote: Update.....tweaking was successful and I now have a 45" side border and 50" top border! Yeah. What a relief. I trimmed the 4 patch blocks. That is where my accuracy was off. Thanks so much for the help. Now to unsew the original side and complete the bottom one. This has been great learning. Congratulations on that . It's so nice when things work out right.
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Re: Month Four (April) Ruffled Roses 07 Aug 2011 21:14 #67849

cqteach OFFLINE Posts: 4	Update.....tweaking was successful and I now have a 45" side border and 50" top border! Yeah. What a relief. I trimmed the 4 patch blocks. That is where my accuracy was off. Thanks so much for the help. Now to unsew the original side and complete the bottom one. This has been great learning.
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Re: Month Four (April) Ruffled Roses 07 Aug 2011 13:46 #67830

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Thanks Margo and Norma. I'm off to do some tweaking and see if I can get this first side to a reasonable measurement. Then I'll use that info to do the other three sides more successfully. I've measured my blocks and, yes, like Norma they are only off by a thread. Oh the power of multiplication! Will trim and resew. This is the first BOM I've done on the Quilt Show and I'm really appreciating the wonderful instructions and speedy help. Thank you, thank you.

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Re: Month Four (April) Ruffled Roses 07 Aug 2011 03:29 #67810

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cqteach wrote:

Thanks Margo. I've had a look at the videos and I'll give that a try. What would be the largest measurement you would suggest that the floaters could be without throwing out the rest of the quilt and looking unbalanced....just in case I can't eliminate all the excess?

After the 4-patch borders, there is another floater before the baskets are added, so you will have a little fudge room.
The basket borders should measure 9" x 51-1/2", but with all the pieces and bias edges involved, that border is even more likely to measure differently.

You could also consider removing one 4-patch and stretching your 4-patch border, which will cause the width to be less than 3", and your floaters would need to be wider. Here are Sharon's videos for stretching a block: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQkF02vpVuw

Ideally however, you would do what Norma did, and adjust the size of the finished blocks so that the strips measure correctly.

Measuring and adjusting each step of the process is how you insure that the final measurement will be close to Sue's measurement.

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Re: Month Four (April) Ruffled Roses 07 Aug 2011 03:05 #67809

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cqteach wrote:

I'm a bit behind here, but working diligently to catch up!

. Up until today my quilt was right on size-wise. However.....I've just finished the first of my 4-patch side borders that were supposed to measure 3 x 45"....and they are 3 x 47". I'm thinking that will make my floater 1 1/4", which is going to look awkward. I was wondering what I should do? If I remove one four patch, my border will be less than 45". If I take all my diagonal seams in, my 4 patches won't be square. Can you suggest any options other than starting over? This is the first time I've had a problem with 'too scant' 1/4" seams!

You're problem is exactly what I experienced when making the 4-patch borders. I didn't want to cope with this problem later, so I decided to unpick the borders but not the 4-patches. I then squared the 4-patches to the correct size (and it was just a thread that should be cut off) resewed the borders, this time to the correct size. The 4-patch should measure 2 x 7/8" when finished and I measured each and everyone of them, when sewn in again. My advice after working with the baskets and the pieced swags is: you better learn how to manage the correct 1/4" seam, because it will only get worse in the next borders if you don't

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This quilt is teaching us a lot about accuracy and I must say, I'm normally very accurate, but this was a challenge to me. To my satisfaction I can say I have had no problems with the baskets or the swags, so I now consider myself educated in 1/4" seams

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