glue and hand quilting
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glue and hand quilting
I see much praise for gluing back etc to quilts . Does this work for hand quilting? I tried it once and found it made hand quilting torture. Was it what I did? I usually hand baste ..
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I don't think glue basting works for hand quilting. However, I have seen some hand quilters say that they can quilt easily with spray basting. With spray basting I would use 505 and a very light touch (not too much basting spray). I would also probably hand baste the edges.
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I glue baste and machine quilt. I don't think it would work for hand quilting as the parts where the glue is are very hard to put a needle through by hand. I have to be careful in not getting glue on the edge of my binding or in the corners of my binding as it is very hard to sew there with a hand needle. I also have run into issues where I tie off and bury my thread ends from quilting. If it happens to stop on a glue spot trying to get the hand needle through to bury the tread is a challenge. I can't imagine running into that all over the quilt with hand quilting.
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