Submitted by Denise
Hope this helps!
Ashley
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If the backing of my quilt is aqua and the front is patterned should I choose aqua for my cotton (ditch quilting)? I was originally thinking white.
When quilting on a large quilt, after pin basting, would it be advisable to do the straight stitching in the ditch along sashings to “tack the quilt together” before tackling the freemotion designs in the blocks?
Rose
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I am new to quilting so am looking for basic instruction. I currently have a broken bone in my right hand so I am like,tied in what I can do.
I did a log cabin queen size quilt back in 1978. I forget how I did it. My son still has it. Thanks God today I saw a video explaining everything. He is going to have a new quilt.
IA beginning ,what do you suggest??
Hi, Betsy. I would suggest lots of practicing! Especially if you are wanting to do quilting using a free motion foot and you haven’t done a lot of it before- it can be an adjustment going from knowing how your machine feels when the feed dogs are moving the fabric to how it feels when you are in charge of moving the fabric.
We also have an entire section of videos devoted to just quilting. I would recommend going through there, seeing what techniques you like and then trying them out!
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I would have given a different answer…as I understood the question to be about making sections of the quilt, with top, batt, backing each, quilting them, and then joining them together. That is what I have done for large t-shirt quilts to be taken off to college dorms. These I assembled into strips with the backing extending about 6″ past each side. I quilted each 3-layer strip but did not get near any of the edges. Thus I had working room to machine sew the first two strips together, top layer only. I overlapped the batts in the seam, cut one line thru them both, removed the excess and hand whipped them together. Then I trimmed down the 2 backings so there was enough overlap that I could fold the one on top the other and hand stitch this seam shut.
After all rows were joined, I machine quilted along the space where the strips joined to fill in that previously unstitched gap.
Then I sewed borders on to give stability to the sides. This involved placing the front border RST to the front, and sewing it down, thru all four layers (border, edge of quilt top, batt, backing). Once folded out, the final quilting is done in the borders.
It sounds like a lot of work and many steps but sure beats struggling with the huge quilt on a home machine.
You can email me if you have further questions…mgquilts@sbcglobal.net
I would have given a different answer…as I understood the question to be about making sections of the quilt, with top, batt, backing each, quilting them, and then joining them together. That is what I have done for large t-shirt quilts to be taken off to college dorms. These I assembled into strips with the backing extending about 6″ past each side. I quilted each 3-layer strip but did not get near any of the edges. Thus I had working room to machine sew the first two strips together, top layer only. I overlapped the batts in the seam, cut one line thru them both, removed the excess and hand whipped them together. Then I trimmed down the 2 backings so there was enough overlap that I could fold the one on top the other and hand stitch this seam shut.
After all rows were joined, I machine quilted along the space where the strips joined tomfill in that previously unstitched gap.
Then I sewed borders on to give stability to the sides. This involved placing the front border RST to the front, and sewing it down, thru all four layers (border, edge of quilt top, batt, backing). Once folded out, the final quilting is done in the borders.
It sounds like a lot of work and many steps but sure beats struggling with the huge quilt on a home machine.
You can email me if you have further questions…mgquilts@sbcglobal.net
Quilt As You Go we call it here in NZ 😉 I’ve done it both ways on a domestic machine. QAYG is easier I must say…
Ashley, if you are quilting in quarter sections, are you using the embroidery hoop also ?
Hi Diane. Since I did my quilting on my machine I did not use a hoop at all, I simply pin basted my layers together.
Hope this helps!
How do I find this evenings Q & A vido ????
Hi, Helen. Here’s the link! https://www.nationalquilterscircle.com/article/nqc-live-august-2016/