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On the Skeldale pictures she has trimmied the excess water soluble stabilizer away from both sides of the panels before stitching them together.
But the water soluble stabilizer is still in the rest of the panels.
Then once all together she rinses out the water soluble from the entire bowl or doily.
I like to trim just the joining side of the first panel and then butt it up to the next panel laying it on top of the extra stabilizer that is not trimmed off the second panel on the side that joins the first panel.
This way I am stitching the 2 panels together but have the water soluble under the stitching area to stitch on.
I do this for joining all the panels.
Then rinse out the water soluble from the whole project.
EastWitch2
7969Thanks for asking the question, I haven't made a FSL bowl yet and needed to know how to connect the pieces also.
8647Skeldale House has some great picture tutorials of how to put FSL Bowls and Doilies together.
Here are 2 links for you to look at.
Scroll down each page to see how to put together.
http://www.skeldalehouse.com/bask...
http://www.skeldalehouse.com/pine...
You can stitch the panels of the bowls or doilies together before rinsing the water soluble stabilizer out.
Line up your panels first beside each other and then trim the water soluble close to the stitching on the first panel side that the second panel would join to it.
On the second panel leave the extra water solubler on the side that the fist panel will join to.
Then Over lap the first panel on the extra water soluble stabilizer of the second panel until the 2 panel sides meet together.
Then you could pin them together and then stitch the 2 together with a Zig Zag stitch taking the pins out as you go.
Do the same for the third to the second and so on.
It is much easier to stitch them together with the water soluble still in them.
EastWitch2
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85867I see you had the best answers, but I may add that you need to make sure that the design is not so fragil that washing out the WSS prior to stitching together does not cause problems. I learned this the hard way, and had to work very hard to get the doily together. Here is one of the pictures, after I had to wash and pin the doily to a board and allow to dry.
44810I pretty much do the same as sdrise (Suzanne) and that depends on the size of the stitch on the doily or the bowl to begin with - they are not all the same from designer or design from one and another. Test it out on a scrap of material - check the width to cover the sections and go for it. if it is too small - enlarge it.
211078Thanks for asking this question; was wondering sbout this myself.*4U
18403Since they need to slightly bend where they meet, I either use a wider, thin zig zag, or some I use the stitch on my machine that takes a stitch or 2 straight, then one on the left, a few straight, one on the right, etc.
32948Hi I try to match the width of the two sections put together. That way when you attach them together it looks like one seam. Do what you like best. Some attachments are too wide so I will do one smaller than the two together and it looks fine. A far as tightness I do it looser than the original. That way it blends in with the original. Hope that doesn't sound too confusing to you. Suzanne
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