Heavy quilting without stiffness
10-30-2011, 07:24 AM
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Beautiful, great job, & I can see where more quilting did the trick! I will have to remember this trick too! Love the quilting, I have a mid arm setup now, but I cannot imagine doing that much, or that kind of quilting, on a quilt. Love it though, maybe down the road, with alot more practice, lol....
10-30-2011, 07:38 AM
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Originally Posted by DogHouseMom
Lovely quilt, and great quilting!!
I have a few questions :)
1) The quilting stabilized the quilt and took away some of the wonkiness. Would this have worked if it had been quilted on a domestic machine - or was the frame the key to getting it straight in the first place, then the quilting just kept it straight?
2) You said that it would have been a "game changer" if there had been sashing or internal borders. Why?
thanks. I'm still learning and have not yet (thankfully) run into this problem.
I have a few questions :)
1) The quilting stabilized the quilt and took away some of the wonkiness. Would this have worked if it had been quilted on a domestic machine - or was the frame the key to getting it straight in the first place, then the quilting just kept it straight?
2) You said that it would have been a "game changer" if there had been sashing or internal borders. Why?
thanks. I'm still learning and have not yet (thankfully) run into this problem.
The answer to #2 is probably self-evident, after reading the above. Sashing, or internal borders, act like a brick wall if you are trying to stretch or manipulate portions of the quilt inside of their boundaries. Essentially, the sashing has already stabilized the area of the top that it surrounds. Does that make sense?
10-30-2011, 08:08 AM
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Originally Posted by TrenbeathRanch
Good questions. The answer to #1 is yes, it was the long-arm frame that was the key to fixing the problems. Generally, quilts aren't tortured when they are loaded...wonky quilts are the exception. Thankfully, fabric has some stretch and give, but the frame holds all 3 layers firmly in place so that they may be permanently stitched. I have never used a domestic machine to quilt, so I can't say if the process can be duplicated on one, but I'm thinking no. Unless you can find a way to keep all three layers very taut, and start in the middle working outwards.
The answer to #2 is probably self-evident, after reading the above. Sashing, or internal borders, act like a brick wall if you are trying to stretch or manipulate portions of the quilt inside of their boundaries. Essentially, the sashing has already stabilized the area of the top that it surrounds. Does that make sense?
The answer to #2 is probably self-evident, after reading the above. Sashing, or internal borders, act like a brick wall if you are trying to stretch or manipulate portions of the quilt inside of their boundaries. Essentially, the sashing has already stabilized the area of the top that it surrounds. Does that make sense?
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