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Old Glory Scrambled Tabletopper Finished

I took the leftover fabrics from my 4th of July Picnic Quilt, cut them into squares and rectangles and started sewing them together.

Strip sets for Old Glory Scrambled TabletopperOnce I had the four strips sewed together and took a picture of the finished top, my first thought was that it looked a little like someone has taken the American flag, cut it up and sewed it back together all scrambled up, so I’ve decided to call it Old Glory Scrambled.

Top sewn together of Old Glory Scrambled TabletopperI sandwiched and hand basted it in the morning.

Now I haven’t done a lot of quilting and when I was working on our middle daughter’s Aloha Ohana quilt, I had a little trouble with tiny puckers on the top. Nothing serious and most of them smoothed out when given the wiggle treatment. Then once the quilt was washed any remaining ones pretty much disappeared but with each project I hope to learn and get better so I did some searching online for possible solutions to the puckering.

I found a few suggestions to try out.

First… use a walking foot. I’d used a walking foot to quilt middle daughter’s quilt. So that obviously wasn’t the solution I needed.

Second… adjust the stitch length to a longer stitch to compensate for sewing through that amount of thickness.

And third… slow down. Now I have to admit that when quilting our daughter’s quilt, I was pushing hard and sewing as fast as possible to get it done so that I could send it off to her.

Wednesday afternoon, armed with this new knowledge, I sat down at the machine, adjusted the stitch length to 7 and started quilting… slowly.

And the quilting went perfectly! Not a pucker anywhere.

By supper time, I had the quilting done and the binding attached.

After supper, we popped a movie in and I hand sewed the binding to the back.

I love how it turned out!

 

Old Glory Scrambled Tabletopper 1

 

Old Glory Scrambled Tabletopper 2
Here’s Dave holding it up for it’s close-up.

 

 

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11 Comments

  • randi
    March 27, 2013 10:43 pm

    So pretty!

  • Sewing Mom
    March 27, 2013 9:22 am

    It looks very patriotic! =) Great job.

  • Linda in Calif.
    March 26, 2013 5:37 pm

    Very cute and I like the way you quilted it too – it’s just right for this quilt.

  • Karen
    March 24, 2013 1:09 pm

    Thank you for stopping by and leaving such a kind comment! I love your patriotic quilt and will remember your tips when I sew/quilt the baby quilt I am reworking. (I have only one quilt…a tied one…to my credit made in 1976. I have a LOT to learn!)

  • Beth
    March 23, 2013 7:11 pm

    love the colors here, my favorites

  • debra@ HOMESPUN
    March 23, 2013 9:12 am

    So pretty! And now you have your 4th of July table setting started too!

    The only machine quilting that I did was years ago on a Christmas Table Topper. It turned out nicely. Evidently I forgot whatever I did then because I tried machine quilting a little doll quilt and I was not too pleased with puckers in one top section. I covered that with lace…but didn’t know to adjust my stitch length. I’ll do that next try! 🙂

  • wendy
    March 23, 2013 8:43 am

    It’s lovely! I agree, the white was the perfect choice for the binding. Some good quilting tips there, I tend to sew as fast as I can so I’ll try slowing down next time I attempt some quilting.

  • Diane
    March 22, 2013 10:33 pm

    Love this little topper..great job! The blog name, Supermom, no Cape..is hilarious as is the label…made by Mom, assisted by Dad:) Just love it all.

  • Vickie Horsfall
    March 22, 2013 6:41 pm

    This is beautiful! I love the colorsand agree with you on the white border. Very nice.

  • rosa
    March 22, 2013 4:11 pm

    It looks fabulous!

  • Elaine
    March 22, 2013 12:09 pm

    Love old glory, that came out great!! the suze is perfect too. I made a scrambled version too last summer.

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