My neighbor gave me some blocks that someone had appliqued tulips on. Unfortunately the background material is really cheap stuff, you can practically see through it. It is a shame someone did that much work on such thin material.
Anyway I am wondering if there is any way to reinforce the material, maybe if I ironed it to a stablizer???? I would like to finsh the quilt and give it away, but the material won't hold up long the way it is.
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Cheap material
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Joannequilts
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Re: Cheap material
Maybe you could fuse it onto another block of fabric. When I was doing an applique quilt, in the directions for the applique it said that if your fabric was white or a light color and you were appliquing it on top of a dark color, you could fuse two pieces of the light color together, then cut and fuse to the background.
I don't see why you couldn't do that with your thin fabric blocks.
joanne:0)
I don't see why you couldn't do that with your thin fabric blocks.
joanne:0)
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Eajosian
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Re: Cheap material
I agree with Joanne, I would fuse it to another fabric. Shame to let all that work go to waste...
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Sandy5689
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Re: Cheap material
Good idea I will do that Thanks much