I've just completed a t-shirt quilt and had all of the problems mentioned above but I was using a home sewing machine with a dual-feed foot, ballpoint #12 needle and 50 wt. thread. Initially had planned on doing stitch in the ditch and some squiggly straight line quilting but ran into problems through most of the process and ended up switching to free motion quilting with the largest needle out there and things went a lot smoother. Now my question: When I was sqiggly line quilting with the dual-feed foot (tried both techniques), I came across the heavy vinyl graphic on one of the blocks (shirts) and it puckered so badly that I had to take the stitches out. Now there are tiny holes where the stitches had been and am not sure if I should leave it alone or free-motion quilt slowly over that area to hide the holes? Has anyone run into this situation?
Last edited by MRSRAB; 08-07-2013 at 01:43 PM.