Thread: Arrghh! Valuable lesson learned!

Not all masking tape is created equal! I took a craftsy class where the instructor had us use masking tape to mark our lines, well guess what, the masking tape I am using will not stay adhered to the quilt top! I thought I could get it to work and used it to space 2 parallel lines, but it kept coming off! This is a baby quilt, so not a lot to feed through my machine.I ended up putting the tape on the underside of my ruler and using a water solvable marker to mark my lines. I was hoping to not have to mark!

Next time look for the "Floriani" pink tape - it sticks much better than regular masking tape and I often use it for in the hoop embroidery projects. It costs about $5 a roll but works so much better that you can even reuse it a 2 or 3 times at least. I remember fighting with the blue masking tape and soooooo share your pain!

Cactus Stitchin, is this

http://www.florianisoftware.com/prod...erfection-Tape

the tape you mean? Sounds like just what I need.

Originally Posted by Trapunta

Cactus Stitchin, is this

http://www.florianisoftware.com/prod...erfection-Tape

the tape you mean? Sounds like just what I need.

This tape is great! I took a 2 day embroidery class this past weekend and we used this tape. We reused it several times without any problems. Needless to say, I bought some.

I use blue painters tape and just put a few straight pins along the tape if it wants to go walk-about.

Originally Posted by Tartan

I use blue painters tape and just put a few straight pins along the tape if it wants to go walk-about.

Same here. I start in the middle of the quilt (longest row on a diagonal cross hatch) and sew along both sides. Then I butt another up against that one as a spacer, remove the first tape and butt it against the spacer. Once you remove the spacer, you can sew along both sides again. I save both tapes and reuse, shortening them as the length needs to be. Once I get to the corner, I replace both pieces of tape and start again from the first diagonal line to the opposite corner. That way I only use 8 sections of tape for the entire quilt. The stickiness does wear off eventually, but with pinning the tape along the length I have done an 80" x 80" quilt on my DSM with a 6 1/2" throat. Sure makes nice straight quilting lines!