Learning

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I promised a post on my EPP project 

I watched a video on how to create the individual pieces to be sown together 

BUT

I didn’t go back to see how to join them

My bad

I started stitching them together like I do knitted or crochet squares. 

This is hard to explain but you kinda make stitches along the side of the pieces to be joined. You then pull it like a zipper and you get a seamless join that sits flat. 

This wasn’t working with this project. 

When quilting, the top will be stretched so that there are no puckers. 

I gently stretched it and you could see every stitch and it probably just pull apart if I didn’t fix it. 

I when back and watched the video on HOW to joint all the hexies 

They used a simple whip stitch 

I knew this. I had seen it before but obviously I was channeling a man and just went off doing my own thing 

So to prevent disaster I re stitched all seams. 

Thankfully it wasn’t so big that I would feel overwhelmed and probably give up on the whole thing. 

Once I had “fixed” it all. I started adding hexis, using the whip stitch. 

It’s now slowly growing again 

I plan to make it slight bigger than I need, then trim it into a square or rectangle. I will then add a boarder so once again it won’t pull apart when it’s stretched. 

I am planning on getting it professionally quilted so the boarder will be vital to the prevention of it just pulling apart 

So there you go 

Do not just assume you know what you’re doing. Do a quick check. It will save you lots of time in the end