Spoon Quilting.
#12
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Originally Posted by stitchinwitch
Sorry - the only thing I know about spoon quilting is dipping the spoon in a bowl of ice cream while I am reading a quilting magazine..............
I do hand quilt, but haven't tried the spoon method before. I guess I need to get with it!
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Originally Posted by Gal
I use my very strong thumb nail to push through the needle and nothing on the fingers underneath. I work with my fabric lose in the hoop.
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If I am quilting straight lines I can take up to 8 stitches on a needle but curves I only take as many stitches as I can before I have to turn a corner, which means sometimes only 1 or 2 stiches. I also have nothing on my underneath finger but have formed a callous on it from the constant scraping of the needle on the pad of my finger. To make the hump like is done with spoon or aunt becky tool I again use my fingernail. But usually I don't need a hump. I get my stitch by rocking the needle and kind of pinching the fabric with my top hand. I posted this before but here is a picture of my current hand quilting project.
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Originally Posted by feline fanatic
Originally Posted by Gal
I use my very strong thumb nail to push through the needle and nothing on the fingers underneath. I work with my fabric lose in the hoop.
Gal
Gal
If I am quilting straight lines I can take up to 8 stitches on a needle but curves I only take as many stitches as I can before I have to turn a corner, which means sometimes only 1 or 2 stiches. I also have nothing on my underneath finger but have formed a callous on it from the constant scraping of the needle on the pad of my finger. To make the hump like is done with spoon or aunt becky tool I again use my fingernail. But usually I don't need a hump. I get my stitch by rocking the needle and kind of pinching the fabric with my top hand. I posted this before but here is a picture of my current hand quilting project.
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Originally Posted by no1jan
I found this blog on spoon quilting: http://quiltsalott.blogspot.com/2009...-quilting.html
#18
Originally Posted by nursie76
I watched a video with this method, and if I remember correctly, you used it as Gynn describes.
I believe it is used similar to the Aunt Becky device that was mentioned on the board earlier.
As with the Aunt Becky the quilt is rather loose in the hoop.
I believe it is used similar to the Aunt Becky device that was mentioned on the board earlier.
As with the Aunt Becky the quilt is rather loose in the hoop.
Spoons are cheap to come by and if you cut the tip of it off and sanded it down smooth you could make the device that is used in the blog really cheap!
But then again who am I to talk, I don't hand quilt YET!!! I hope to start my first hand quilting project this winter!
#19
I haven't spoon quilted. But I have been useing something similar. It is called a under-thimble. And I''m still practicing. Just not quite sure if I really like it or not. But I'm learning to love hand quilting.Only been doing it since January of this year.
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I started spoon quilting about a year ago, to save my under finger. I had tried Aunt becky but it didn't work for me. I didn't want to spend more money on something that, again wouldn't work so I made my own. I took an old spoon and had my DH cut part of the handle off, then I put one of those rubber pencil grips over what was left of the spoon handle. It worked!! I like using it. I still use my finger sometimes, certain positions just work better that way. Once I figured out that I could use the spoon, I decided to buy the T J's quilting spoon (supposedly it is coated with something that won't scratch with alot of use, and it is flat on top, unlike a spoon, so I thought it would work better). I was wrong, I like my spoon better. It might be the difference in the angle at the neck of the spoon. My spoon has gotten scratched and it feels like the needle gets caught in the scratches, so I will be looking for more old spoons to cut off.
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