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Making a pieced tablecloth (log cabin)
- Try to work with the width of the fabric somehow, since having the selvage on helps maintain shape while applying the pieced strips.
- Use borders, unless it is essential that the entire cloth be pieced. The borders are the frame for the pieceing and also cover a lot more real estate (since they are on the edges) than the piecing does. Big time saver!
- In order for the border to function as a frame, you need to have a color in the pieced strips that is reflected in the border color. This ties it all together.
- Example: to cover two 2' x 4' tables I would log-cabin-piece a piece of cloth 36" long and 42 - 44" wide. Then I would cut the pieced fabric in half the long way to create two 18" x 42" pieces. With a 15" border all around, the tablecloth is now 38" x 72".
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