Originally Posted by
pewa88
This is what is called "pokies " and happens with longarm quilting. It happens to some extent with every quilt but really shows up because the light batting pokes through and is very visible on a dark backing. No tweeking of tension, or changing of needles will prevent it. The only solution is to use a black batt when you have a dark backing. Washing and drying may help somewhat.
I had this happen recently...didn't matter which side I used...still pokies...it was with Hobbs...whist helped was to loosen the quilt top on the frame...tight backing fabric makes it worse...and also when I tightened the top tension it also seemed to help - lot...but I didn't discover this until I was almost finished...pokies sometimes go away after washing the quilt...