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How To Make A Quilt "Beard Guard"?
Have an older quilt that has seen a pretty rough life and want to
stabilised/hide one very frayed/chewed up edge. Rather than make new pieces, etc would like to sew a "beard guard" along the length of the edge to cover the damage, but cannot find information or a pattern. As a relative newbie (have not really sewn since home economics in school, but can handle straight seems well enough), think this project would be simple. Hints? Suggestions? My machine is a Pfaff 1222. Thanks. Candide |
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Could you just use a bias binding along all 4 edges?
Hipe this helps Barbara in SC USA "Candide" wrote in message news:SzZxe.12741$Hw5.8549@trndny09... Have an older quilt that has seen a pretty rough life and want to stabilised/hide one very frayed/chewed up edge. Rather than make new pieces, etc would like to sew a "beard guard" along the length of the edge to cover the damage, but cannot find information or a pattern. As a relative newbie (have not really sewn since home economics in school, but can handle straight seems well enough), think this project would be simple. Hints? Suggestions? My machine is a Pfaff 1222. Thanks. Candide |
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"Bobbie Sews Moore" wrote in message link.net... Could you just use a bias binding along all 4 edges? Hipe this helps Barbara in SC USA Thanks for the suggestion, but really only the one edge is damaged, and by "damaged I mean not only missing entire blocks, but the ones that remain are so ratty looking it isn't decent. Aside from a beard guard the only way of saving this quilt would be to make new blocks and recreate the entire edge from scratch. Much as I would like to do this, do not have that kind of time as my mending box is quite full. *Think* have an idea of how to go about it and will measure out some material tonight and pre-wash so at least that is out of the way. From the pictures one has seen of beard guards, they are probably nothing more than a strip of material sew at one edge (usually the top) of a quilt. Must be sort of like a fabric sandwich, no? Candide |
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Candide wrote: Have an older quilt that has seen a pretty rough life and want to stabilised/hide one very frayed/chewed up edge. Rather than make new pieces, etc would like to sew a "beard guard" along the length of the edge to cover the damage, but cannot find information or a pattern. As a relative newbie (have not really sewn since home economics in school, but can handle straight seems well enough), think this project would be simple. Hints? Suggestions? My machine is a Pfaff 122. I am unable to offer assistance, I don't quilt, and googling "Beard Guard" turns up lots of sites with protective rain-gear for men's beards....:-} Maybe they would be able to help over in rec.crafts.textiles.quilting or one of the other quilting newsgroups. -- Beverly delete nospam and .invalid to reply |
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my mother and grandmother used to sew lengths of old, soft white cotton
sheet to the top edge of every quilt they had and made before it went onto any bed! i would suggest finding a complimentary cotton fabric, and washing and drying it several times. then, measure the lenth of the quilt you need to cover, and the width you need to cover. make your own pattern for them, including seam allowances. it is a daunting task, but i would not machine sew the new edge on--any new fabric sewn onto old will tend to rip the old on its own...adding a machine action would tend to accentuate that. it will also add "pull" to the edge, and give added stress. we just started sewing on the back side, either a firm whip stitch, or in the case of a removable edge, a generous basting stitch. (this project was one of the early sewing things i was assigned by the maternal units. i still do them by hand, out of respect for the fabric---and the past) |
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I picked up a beard guard at the thrift store. It amounts to 2 pieces
of fabric about 10" x the width of the quilt + seam allowances. 3 sides are stitched and the last edge is hemmed or finished. I don't have it right here but if I remember right it had buttonholes and I guess you stitch buttons on your quilt so you can put it on and remove to wash. There was pretty embroidery on it so it looked nice. I guess you could say it was like a long skinny pillow case to protect the edge of the quilt. HTH. Taria Candide wrote: Have an older quilt that has seen a pretty rough life and want to stabilised/hide one very frayed/chewed up edge. Rather than make new pieces, etc would like to sew a "beard guard" along the length of the edge to cover the damage, but cannot find information or a pattern. As a relative newbie (have not really sewn since home economics in school, but can handle straight seems well enough), think this project would be simple. Hints? Suggestions? My machine is a Pfaff 1222. Thanks. Candide |
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Thank you all for the replies! The "pillowcase" idea seems doable, too bad it is too late to hit the fabric shops. Candide "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper." Quentin Crisp 1908 - 1999 _+_+_+_+_+_+__+_+_+_+_ "Taria" wrote in message news:69jye.8135$Yb4.1066@trnddc08... I picked up a beard guard at the thrift store. It amounts to 2 pieces of fabric about 10" x the width of the quilt + seam allowances. 3 sides are stitched and the last edge is hemmed or finished. I don't have it right here but if I remember right it had buttonholes and I guess you stitch buttons on your quilt so you can put it on and remove to wash. There was pretty embroidery on it so it looked nice. I guess you could say it was like a long skinny pillow case to protect the edge of the quilt. HTH. Taria Candide wrote: Have an older quilt that has seen a pretty rough life and want to stabilised/hide one very frayed/chewed up edge. Rather than make new pieces, etc would like to sew a "beard guard" along the length of the edge to cover the damage, but cannot find information or a pattern. As a relative newbie (have not really sewn since home economics in school, but can handle straight seems well enough), think this project would be simple. Hints? Suggestions? My machine is a Pfaff 1222. Thanks. Candide |
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I am not sure if this will work but you can try a very very light fusible
we call Dream Weave to stop the fraying It will add very little body to your fabric http://www.rnkdistributing.com/dreamweavefusible.shtml Fred -- Fred Lebow Floriani Embroidery Sewing and Quilting Products http://www.handsonsewingschools.com http://www.rnkdistributing.com "Candide" wrote in message news:SzZxe.12741$Hw5.8549@trndny09... Have an older quilt that has seen a pretty rough life and want to stabilised/hide one very frayed/chewed up edge. Rather than make new pieces, etc would like to sew a "beard guard" along the length of the edge to cover the damage, but cannot find information or a pattern. As a relative newbie (have not really sewn since home economics in school, but can handle straight seems well enough), think this project would be simple. Hints? Suggestions? My machine is a Pfaff 1222. Thanks. Candide |
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"Fred Lebow" wrote in message ... I am not sure if this will work but you can try a very very light fusible we call Dream Weave to stop the fraying It will add very little body to your fabric http://www.rnkdistributing.com/dreamweavefusible.shtml Fred Fred Lebow Floriani Embroidery Sewing and Quilting Products http://www.handsonsewingschools.com http://www.rnkdistributing.com Thanks for the suggestion/link! After faffing around with the quilt last night, decided just to appliqué fine tulle over the damaged sections. This will stabilised the damaged areas, and to an extend hide them until can get the time to rebuild. Candide "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper." Quentin Crisp 1908 - 1999 _+_+_+_+_+_+__+_+_+_+_ |
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Hi,
I have seen antique quilts "mended" with muslin or nearly sheer material. It stabalizes the quiilt and still allowes the original to be seen.... sorry don't seem to have explained to well. It's late in Australia and I'm more than ready for bed!....Amelia "Candide" wrote in message news:KN0ye.3866$4U5.3818@trndny03... "Bobbie Sews Moore" wrote in message link.net... Could you just use a bias binding along all 4 edges? Hipe this helps Barbara in SC USA Thanks for the suggestion, but really only the one edge is damaged, and by "damaged I mean not only missing entire blocks, but the ones that remain are so ratty looking it isn't decent. Aside from a beard guard the only way of saving this quilt would be to make new blocks and recreate the entire edge from scratch. Much as I would like to do this, do not have that kind of time as my mending box is quite full. *Think* have an idea of how to go about it and will measure out some material tonight and pre-wash so at least that is out of the way. From the pictures one has seen of beard guards, they are probably nothing more than a strip of material sew at one edge (usually the top) of a quilt. Must be sort of like a fabric sandwich, no? Candide |
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