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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2ciIW4R:danceswchopstck replied to your post “kayleigh-janes replied to your post “i can’t do math”You have…”
Suggestion for how to get the bottom of the trapezoid arc, if you choose: get a piece of string or cord or rope at least a foot longer than the distance from center of ger to edge. tie a chosen marking device to one end. put trapezoid on driveway or other large flat surface. hold the marker at the bottom center of tapezoid. have accomplice hold non-marker end of string stretched along the ground to a point same distance as from center of ger to edge. while accomplice holds still, move the marker…
oh, yeah, Dude suggested “let’s make a giant compass”, and we both kind of stared at the picture, and i said, “or, well, a lot of my fabric is not quite wide enough so I’m just gonna truncate the ends and figure there’ll be gaps if it doesn’t overlap, and if it’s too wide I’ll fold it in,” and he said, “that also could work”.
We’ll see. As it is I think I did too much thinking today; sewing the panels together was something I contemplated and then freaked out about. Though, it’s cooled off; it was quite brutally hot today for a while, and sewing a quilt means holding most of it in your lap and that is terrible punishment on a hot day. Maybe I’ll sew it together tonight and then look at trimming that outer curve.
Let’s be real, though, I probably won’t.
(My current thought is to just sew everything together flat, quilt lines into it, and then add a front panel and the vapor barrier and then turn it inside-out to finish it, so no quilting shows through the front panel and no holes are punched in the middle of the vapor barrier, but I don’t have to attempt to glue it because I don’t think spray adhesive will really hold. So– long story short, I don’t have to worry too much about the fine details of the shape of the panels I’m quilting, as they’re just ‘filling’ in a sandwich I’ll be covering over with something else.)
Suggestion for how to get the bottom of the trapezoid arc, if you choose: get a piece of string or cord or rope at least a foot longer than the distance from center of ger to edge. tie a chosen marking device to one end. put trapezoid on driveway or other large flat surface. hold the marker at the bottom center of tapezoid. have accomplice hold non-marker end of string stretched along the ground to a point same distance as from center of ger to edge. while accomplice holds still, move the marker…
oh, yeah, Dude suggested “let’s make a giant compass”, and we both kind of stared at the picture, and i said, “or, well, a lot of my fabric is not quite wide enough so I’m just gonna truncate the ends and figure there’ll be gaps if it doesn’t overlap, and if it’s too wide I’ll fold it in,” and he said, “that also could work”.
We’ll see. As it is I think I did too much thinking today; sewing the panels together was something I contemplated and then freaked out about. Though, it’s cooled off; it was quite brutally hot today for a while, and sewing a quilt means holding most of it in your lap and that is terrible punishment on a hot day. Maybe I’ll sew it together tonight and then look at trimming that outer curve.
Let’s be real, though, I probably won’t.
(My current thought is to just sew everything together flat, quilt lines into it, and then add a front panel and the vapor barrier and then turn it inside-out to finish it, so no quilting shows through the front panel and no holes are punched in the middle of the vapor barrier, but I don’t have to attempt to glue it because I don’t think spray adhesive will really hold. So– long story short, I don’t have to worry too much about the fine details of the shape of the panels I’m quilting, as they’re just ‘filling’ in a sandwich I’ll be covering over with something else.)
