Quilting methods
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I was wondering how many of us on here quilt by hand? There are so many beautiful quilts! A lot of machine quilting, which I don't have issue with. I almost always quilt by machine myself. However, when I first learned to quilt, I learned by hand, and honestly, there are days I just want to hand quilt something. But life is busy, and there are so many projects, that I always machine quilt. How about the rest of us here? Hand quilt? machine? both? |
I haven't hand quilted a quilt in about 10 years. It takes me a long time to hand quilt and I have too many quilts I want to do so I machine quilt. I satisfy my hand sewing urge by hand sewing my bindings and doing embroidery.
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I do both. I always have a quilt on the frame to hand quilt. If I have even 10 minutes, I sit down and hand quilt. I also have a long arm. I machines quilt as well and sometimes, I FMQ on my sewing machine.
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I do both. I'm just finishing up one I machine pieced and hand quilted. On the binding now.
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That's what I love to do, too. Such a peaceful way to not feel too lazy when watching TV!
Which I just realized is the time to make a cuppa tea and go do that! |
Almost exclusively a hand quilter here. On the odd occasion I do a charity quilt (lack of time) they mostly require machine quilting so I'll do that then. And although I do mainly bed-size quilts - except for the run of baby quilts for the last couple of years, I'm not the prolific quilter that most are that are here. But it works for me.
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i've been quilting for over 40 yes, and i do it by hand.
I have machine quilted one twin size, a large baby,and 4 runners. I don't know how people machine quilt a quilt. I like the machine quilting, but sometimes it's so dense and they aren't warm, the heavily quilted ones. |
I've just started, but I hand quilt. I did one concert blanket/quilt I used the machine for, because it was too thick to do by hand (wanted it thick enough to sit on).
Going forward I will probably use a sewing machine to quilt charity quilts, but for gift quilts, I hope to continue to do most, if not all, by hand. |
My hands ache too much to do hand sewing or quilting. So machine it is. Including the binding.
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I mostly machine quilt oh HQ16 but I keep a baby quilt or wall hangings on a hoop to hand quilt on some evenings and to take with me when I travel.
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