![\"Mission](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Mission-Beach1.jpg?resize=244%2C300&ssl=1\" "\\"Mission")
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The above quilt, “Mission Beach”<\/em> 1995, photographed against black, is one of quite a number of irregular shaped works from\u00a0my Colour Memory\u00a0series –\u00a0click on the drop down gallery menu\u00a0at the top of this page.\u00a0<\/p>\n Recently discussion on the Quiltart and the SAQA lists I read came around to edging issues again.\u00a0 Rarely do makers of traditional quilts need to think about this, but the edging can make or break a non-traditional or ‘art’ quilt.\u00a0 As these works commonly hang on the wall, very often a facing is a good way to finish if the maker doesn’t want the line of a binding or a border around the design.\u00a0 Recently there were a number of links to variations of putting a facing on a rectangular or square quilt.\u00a0 Facing is a valuable dressmaking or tailoring technique and has been very\u00a0useful to me edging irregular shaped quilts – such as the one\u00a0above,\u00a0 and others of mine such as\u00a0“Obiri”, “Kimberley” and “Green Island”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n It was this group of work s in the mid ’90’s in particular that led me overcoming certain technical difficulties, and to being asked to write and teach about this.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have written articles on this\u00a0( DUQ magazine nov. 1997)and a chapter in “Workshops From The Guild” published in Australia in 1996.\u00a0 The link\u00a0at the end of this post is a summary of tips and diagrams from that writing that\u00a0might help some\u00a0readers to\u00a0successfully finish some larger irregular shaped pieces.\u00a0\u00a0Facing irregular shaped quilts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The above quilt, “Mission Beach” 1995, photographed against black, is one of quite a number of irregular shaped works from\u00a0my Colour Memory\u00a0series –\u00a0click on the drop down gallery menu\u00a0at the top of this page.\u00a0 Recently discussion on the Quiltart and the SAQA lists I read came around to edging issues again.\u00a0 Rarely do makers of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-aI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}