Originally Posted by
lindaschipper
Maybe I'm not getting the point here....what size pins are/was she using that caused such big holes in the fabric? My quilt pins never do that, and when the quilt is washed after quilting and binding shouldn't the holes tighten back up? Mine do.
Hi Linda--thank you for your reply. I am not speaking of 'regular' quilt straight pins or quilting safety pins, but rather a thumbtack-sized pin, the shaft of which is thicker than even the thickest quilting straight pin. You can see the tack pin that comes with Westalee's Quilting Circles templates in a YT video entitled
Quilting Circles by Leonie West.
The circle quilting templates have a small hole near the bottom of the template and they are anchored onto what is basically an upside down thumb tack. The gist is you secure your quilt sandwich on the anchor post and sew along the gentle curves of the template until you have to rotate your template to continue sewing along the curves until you complete a ringed circle. Westalee's rulers are brilliant and do a very nice job on concentric circle quilting patterns BUT all the rotations of your circle template skewered onto a thumbtack leave a larger than usual pinhole that washing and drying doesn't necessarily take care of.