Originally Posted by Corry
Originally Posted by quilter53
Originally Posted by smtp5
I thought that you could just hoop the stabilizer and not the quilt, just position it..or spray with adhesive?
I use either a sticky stabilizer or spray adhesive and only hoop the stabilizer not the quilt. My machine has a fix which holds whatever I am embroidering on so it doesn't move. the hooping was the hardest part for me. I was very glad when I learned how to do the non-hoop.
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When you say your machine has a fix that holds it on.....do you mean that it bastes it before it starts to embroider? I just bought an embroidery machine that has a large hoop so I can embroider my quilts like this as I am not good with FMQ either. I intend to try and practice but until then do not want to ruin my quilts I currently need quilted. I have put too much time into some of these tops tp ruin them with my inexperience in fmq. Hoping I can use the embroidery quilting method till I acquire some fmq skills. I also bought this machine because it has the function of using the start/stop button to sew with out the foot pedal and was told this made fmq a little easier. Anything to help me get to mastering this fmq skill. I can't keep sending my tops out for someone to do on the longarm. Besides that I want to finish them myself. I will never be able to buy my own longarm enless I win the lottery. lol
Yes, the fix is a basting stitch. I use that one the hooped stabilizer without the quilt and also no thread so there will be just holes in the stabilizer. Then cut out inside the fixed area of the sticky stabilizer. Put the quilt on top of the stabilizer and do a fix with thread. It holds it in place and also you won't have stabilizer to get off of the back of your quilt. Hope that makes sense.
Practice on a sandwiched practice block before you do your quilt to get the feel of it.