How to Wash Out Marked Lines

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

2 Responses

  1. Louise says:

    Two things came to mind with this:
    1. Why my tracing paper, even if accurate, didn't match with my block?
    2. Why are some of my points are 'chewed off' and other not? I asked the question in more detail on the Blog.
    Thanks Leah

  2. Leah Day says:

    Great questions! 1. Double check that your quilting diagram printed the right size. It's easy for your printer settings to be slightly off so make sure to select "actual size" in your printer dialog box.

    If the pages still won't print properly, open a web browser and click "print preview" and check to see if the page is set up to shrink. This setting must be set to 100% for your printer to print properly.

    2. Triangles getting chewed off usually happens because your seam allowance is a bit big. Are you using a patchwork foot? Have you measured your seam allowance to see if it's accurate?

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