Here is a boston common quilt that I did this week and thought I would use minkie for the backing. While minkie is soft and very delightful to feel I will never use it for quilt backing again especially on my longarm. As you can see I have extra puff in my quilt. I had wanted some puff but this puff is a little to much. On the longarm I secure the backing to stabilize it so that I don't get any wrinkles, well with the minkie it is quite stretchy so in order to secure it stretches some. When I took the quilt off the longarm the whole thing was drawn up creating the extra puff. Plus when I wanted to put the binding on I had to undo all the sewing around the outside edge that I did as part of the longarming and smooth everything out as much as possible pin and then hand baste before I finally was able to sew on my binding. Alot of extra work and not all that happy with the final effects. Has anyone else tried minkie and do you have any secrets to share that might have helped?
Thanks,
Sherryl
Candlequilter