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Even experienced quilters can make choices that affect how well a finished quilt wears, lies flat, and keeps its design visible. In this post, I’ll share six common quilting mistakes that are well worth fixing. In this post, you’ll learn why and how you should avoid: choosing fabrics that wear out too quickly in everyday quilts forcing the edges of blocks to match even when your quilt blocks are not of the same size border strips/pieces that are too long sewing a binding on so that you end up with wavy edges quilting your quilt too sparsely making problematic colour-value choices Over the years, I’ve learned that many quilting frustrations do not come from lack of skills but from small decisions that one may make without thinking. So it is not because of any quilting laws but out of self-interest that you should avoid or fix certain mistakes – early. 1. Unsuitable fabrics in a quilt that is meant to be used This is a mistake that you can – and should – correct even before be...

I’m a veteran zipper bag maker. I’ve sewn and documented a total of 360 zipper pouches, and I still make mistakes now and then. In fact, I seem to be very creative when it comes to making mistakes because I’ve managed to invent at least twenty different ones. If you’ve ever wondered whether you are the only one unpicking seams from a seemingly simple project, this post is for you. 1 – The rookie mistake Whenever I make this mistake, I think that a person who has sewn so many zipper bags really should know better already. But of course I’ve made the rookie mistake and sewn around the bag and lining pieces and forgotten to open the zipper. This happened, for example, when I was making the Grandma/Mummi zipper bag, which poses here in its finished state: The only way to recover from this mistake is to say hello to the seam ripper! One must unpick enough of the stitching so that one can open the zipper at least partly – to be able to turn the bag right side out. 2 – Pin mistake Sor...