Originally Posted by Kani

Love handquilting. So relaxing.
I was lucky I had some of the greatest women to teach me. My mother-in-law, grandmother-in-law and my dear sweet aunt.
The first two taught me the basics. My aunt taught me how to get the smallest stitches. She said the trick is to use a small sharp needle. She took the needle up thru the material and almost back down in the same hole. She called it ROCKING that needle. It's kind of hard to explain. But she would bring the needle up and then rock it back down. Not stitching like you would if you was sewing by hand a running stitch but more of a up and down rocking motion. She would get the needle up just enough to bring it back down close to where the needle came out of. I hope this makes sense. It's so hard to explain. Much easier to show.