{"id":3376,"date":"2012-03-11T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T09:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2012-03-11T11:29:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T09:29:03","slug":"stars-in-my-eyes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=3376","title":{"rendered":"Stars in my eyes…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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This morning I finished up my wonky star table runner. It took me much longer than I expected because I faffed around for ages handquilting and then unpicking it on the stars. I just couldn’t get an effect that I liked – it didn’t seem to matter which thread or stitch I used, I just didn’t like it and didn’t like the combination with the stippling.<\/p>\n

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Finally I decided to do very narrow straight line quilting – rows about an eighth of an inch apart from the outside of the stars moving in. I did more rows on the bigger stars than on the small ones. And I absolutely LOVED the effect. I even amazed myself at how straight I could sew!<\/p>\n

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But….and I guess you knew that there had to be a but…<\/p>\n

I’m not entirely happy with the centre squares of the stars, which pouffed up slightly once I’d done the outline quilting. I tried ironing them really well and also handquilted round with transparent threads to try to hold it down a bit. It helped a little, but didn’t solve the problem. I guess the only way round it is to start quilting from the inside out, because I really did the opposite. I don’t know….the blocks were certainly completely flat before I started mucking around with the quilting….has anyone out there had this problem? More to the point, has anyone solved it?<\/p>\n

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Woteva…<\/p>\n

I love the runner. I just hope it turns out to be very washable because it’s going to get pretty heavy use!<\/p>\n

Helen<\/p>\n

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This morning I finished up my wonky star table runner. It took me much longer than I expected because I faffed around for ages handquilting and then unpicking it on the stars. I just couldn’t get an effect that I liked – it didn’t seem to matter which thread or stitch I used, I just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-Ss","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}