While I was in St Louis, I bought an egg spinning kit for Jace and Jackson at Target. Meliss waited until it was closer to Easter before turning them loose and then called on Facetime so I could see them in action …
Luckily I had the perfect thrift store cloth match for an egg patch.
With the month of a March finally done and stitched onto the January and February patches, I discovered a problem: the cloth was warped, visibly wider at the bottom than the top row of black and white patches.
Thinking it might help, I made a new row of black and white patches the same size as the top row and eased (well actually, forced) everything together …
But it was obvious that the March patches were buckling, plus the new row of black and white patches was stretched beyond reasonable.
I took them all apart and found my eyes hadn’t been lyin’ …
I think this could best be called mission creep. So it’s back to the drawing board to do a little what-iffing 😉
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Frustrating I’m sure .. but also have no doubt you’ll come up with a solution. Enjoy your weekend 😘
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It’s an interesting insight into bound versus loose edges … always I am learning 😊
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That egg spinner is great! I would wanna play with it too 🙂 Hopefully the buckling & stretching will get resolved reasonably quickly.
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I love to buy the kids stuff that I’d want to play with myself
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Find the center of each and align and let the edges be uneven. That’s how life is. It’s real and uneven and gloriously edgy.
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The last Remember cloth was gloriously rhomboid … so I am not at all averse to uneven edges … this is more along the lines of an intriguing problem to solve as opposed to a quest for “perfection”
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you need some wriggle room!
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I seriously considered leaving it as it was, but I love stitching looooong seams, so taking it apart wasn’t a hard conclusion to reach (and now I may even edit a patch or three)
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one of the best things about working with cloth is how it can be undone with ease and grace!
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I’ve probably unstitched a lifetime’s worth of cloth over the years
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Damp stretching? Love to see how the squares accrue.
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good suggestion … I decided to soak the stretched strip of black and white patches and let it dry overnight … it “bounced back” to its original length … so now I plan to do the same with all the strips and give them a gentle pressing so that everything is at the same level of “tension” …
thanks!
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I spritz with water bottle and gently tug and pin to a piece of stiff foam insulation.
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My knitting always did that – stretched as it grew. I think the problem solving part is good; but the frustration not so good. Hopefully you can solve it and prevent it – the would be great! That aside – the egg patch is brilliant!!! The perfect fabric – I love how it is the background yet runs through the egg so we get it. Clever.
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my knitting always curled at the edges … very discouraging
the egg, on the other hand, was great good fun
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