Need acquired UFQ advice.
08-03-2015, 05:14 AM
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Need acquired UFQ advice.
I need advice from y'all. A friend gave me her mom's stash, they recently broke up her household. In it are two quilts that are sandwiched and ready to go. The batting is older poofy polyester batting. She started to hand quilt them and then stopped. I would like to finish them fmq and give them back to my friend. But have never worked with poofy batting. Should I take them apart and add thinner cotton batting or try to free motion over this poofy stuff. Any advice?
08-03-2015, 05:22 AM
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You can FMQ polyester but it moves more than 80/20 . You need to baste well so you don't get wrinkles on the back. Usually I would change it out but I think I would FMQ a heart around the hand quilting to preserve it for the daughter and persevere with FMQing the original batt.
08-03-2015, 05:27 AM
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Also, I only have a small domestic machine that I quilt on, If you use the Polyester batting, you stitch length should be a little longer. (I am going from personal experience on that.)
08-03-2015, 06:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Tartan
You can FMQ polyester but it moves more than 80/20 . You need to baste well so you don't get wrinkles on the back. Usually I would change it out but I think I would FMQ a heart around the hand quilting to preserve it for the daughter and persevere with FMQing the original batt.
08-03-2015, 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by soccertxi
I love Tartan's idea about the heart around the hand quilting. If the batt is too unwieldy, how about tieing the rest? I am sure the family would be happy just to have it completed. Not sure I would be comfortable wrestling with all that poly puff! Just an idea...
Originally Posted by Tartan
You can FMQ polyester but it moves more than 80/20 . You need to baste well so you don't get wrinkles on the back. Usually I would change it out but I think I would FMQ a heart around the hand quilting to preserve it for the daughter and persevere with FMQing the original batt.
08-03-2015, 10:54 AM
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I knew y'all would have an answer! I never thought of tieing it! Thank you so much. I think I will do that. One is a star quilt and one is a sunbonnet sue. I don't know when she started it, but I am glad to finish it for her. I think I will look into the machine tieing. The parts that are quilted are pretty far apart. Thanks for the advice.
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