Originally Posted by
ube quilting
You are brave to actually do a quilt your first time on the machine, bravo for you. I just loaded solid material several times for practice before I even thought of loading a quilt. YOU ROCK!
Oh I did that!! I bought some cheap fabric and loaded it up with some cheap batting. One piece of advice I got was to just quilt ... don't pay attention to tension, just get used to the machine. So that's what I did for the first several blocks. Then I played with the tension until I got that right. Then I just kept playing until I ran out of fabric. It was a small lap size piece when finished. One thing it taught me was that my leaders were rotten, so the next several weeks I spent researching different leaders, how to make leaders, how to attach leaders. I finally bought some pillow ticking and some zippers and made my leaders yesterday. After that .. up went the quilt!!