I'm not having any luck quilting on my home machine.
This is my third quilt, and the trouble is always the same with the ones that are bigger than a baby size. Even while using a walking-foot the fabric pushes so that I get creases sewn in! So I would like to try hand-quilting, I really enjoy busy work with my hands, but don't really know how to get started. I have a hoop and did some stitches tonight. But the rocking back and forth to make stitches I'm finding not easy to do. The needle doesn't want to come up through the fabric close enough to where it went in to make a small enough stitch. I hope that makes sense. Maybe I need a different size needle, I couldn't really tell exactly what I used because the package was labeled in a general sort of way, but didn't say which needle was which. Any advice? There's a local quilting guild that I'm thinking of joining, do you think that would be a help for a beginner? Thanks, ladies!