Question About Leader/Ender Quilts
I've been reading about how people have scraps that they sew together and use them as "leaders' to get their actual project started but then use the sewn together leaders as part of another quilt.
My question is, don't you have to start in the middle of the leader to get the stitching started? Otherwise, why wouldn't you just start with your project? And, if you are starting in the middle of your leader, how do you use that in another quilt?
When I use a "spider", I start in the middle to get started, so the fabric doesn't get sucked down into the feed dogs. Isn't this what a "leader" is for?
What am I missing?
Watson