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I’ve been working on my appliqu\u00e9 project from the Karen Kay Buckley class I took at the Phoenix AQS show earlier this month. I finished the center block by hand and then began work on the outer border, which has seventeen quarter-inch strips applied to each of the four sides before joining those into a hollow square and adding another strip at each corner.<\/p>\n

Once I’d finished the appliqu\u00e9 of these border sections, which I did by machine, I joined the four sections and then realized that I’d better spritz them before pressing these seams and adding those final strips, since I had blue wash-out marker showing in some places. That’s when the problem arose.<\/p>\n

Despite prewashing that red fabric, it bled all over the white background! Ack! It’s difficult to see in this photo, but there’s pink<\/i> in far too many places to be able to cover it all up with the planned appliqu\u00e9d circles. The borders also look pretty wrinkled, since I’m afraid to press them after the spritzing, thus making that color run really permanent. I’m waiting for my LQS to get a shipment of Synthrapol; then I’ll see if the problem can be fixed or whether it’s a lost cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I finished the center block by hand and then began work on the outer border, which has seventeen quarter-inch strips applied to each of the four sides before joining those into a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[215,36,231],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-applique","tag-applique-2","tag-disaster","tag-fiesta-block-3","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-kY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1297,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/26\/fiesta-progress\/","url_meta":{"origin":1300,"position":0},"title":"Fiesta progress","author":"Sandy","date":"March 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember this post? 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