A little more cutting -

 

 

Long story short - 

 

The skewed strata on my Sundance Bargello was an EASY fix -

 

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I could have un-sewn a couple more seams to try to straighten them out - 

 

Or taken them all apart - 

 

But I didn't want to do that - 

 

And - as it turned out - I didn't have to - 

 

I only un-sewed the very last seam that made each "tube" -

 

Then I folded each one in half so that both layers were nice and flat - 

 

And the strip seams were all straight - going from left to right - 

 

Then I pinned the last seam just the way it was -

 

With the ends of the strips "offset" a bit - 

 

And resewed that seam on each one - 

 

I figured that I could sew the mis-matched last seam - 

 

And pretend that all of the edges were even - 

 

Because they would be - 

 

After I made my first cut to even the edge - LOL - 

 

The only question then was whether or not I would have enough width - 

 

To cut all of the strips that I needed from each strata - 

 

And I did - YAY!! -

 

I would have been in BIG trouble - 

 

If I had tried to cut the strips before straightening them out - 

 

So - after I sewed them - and folded one up to cut it - 

 

I rechecked my math - 

 

And thought I could get all of the strips I needed - 

 

Cut at the correct widths - 

 

And I was right - 

 

 

The first strata had the "center" piece - 

 

So it had one extra strip to cut - 

 

The scrap on the right was my "straighten the edge" cut - 

Because I'm LEFT-handed - and cut from the RIGHT side of the strata -

 

And the scrap on the left was what I had left over -

 

So you can see that I had plenty - 

 

And how straight my strip seams are - 

 

And how uneven the left edge is - 

 

The second strata had even more left over at the end - 

 

Another reason why I LOVE the flat packs by Island Batik - 

 

The edges are cut straight - and NOT pinked - 

 

The strip widths are accurate - 

 

And they are longer than some other brands -

 

Anyway - 

 

I got both strata cut and hung over the front rail of the longarm - 

 

With my Northern Woods Bargello strips hanging over the back rail - 

 

And my Sundance Bargllo strips hanging over the front rail - 

 

It doesn't look like I'll be doing much longarm quilting for a while - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -