Has anyone been crazy enough to rip out machine quilting stitches?
12-01-2010, 10:23 PM
#94
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Originally Posted by needlefruit
Several posts recently mention poor quality longarm quilting. I am a "longarmer," so I can say this: I would NEVER EVEN THINK of delivering a quilt with 'eyelashes,' pleats, or any other such atrocity! First, if a longarmer mounts the quilt correctly and tension is adjusted properly, those mishaps are rare. When they do happen, there is only one thing to do, and that is rip out and fix. Time consuming? Pain? You bet! I charge more than other longarmers in my area, and I refuse quilt tops that are too sloppily pieced. My best customers are those who've had a 'nightmare' quilting job done on a quality pieced top by a sloppy longarmer! They are more than happy to pay my higher rate. There are lots of 'it's ok if you can't see it from town' type piecers AND longarmers. They need/deserve each other. Quilt snob? Too picky? Maybe so, but I have happy customers who appreciate my snobbish, picky ways, and I'd happily sign anything I quilt. My suggestion is that you ask to see a longarmer's work before turning him/her loose on your quality pieced top!
I once quilted a king size quilt, and when I rolled it down, discovered that my bobbin tension was off and had made about a billion knots on the back. It was at the time that my triplet daughters were learning to drive, and between the three of them, they needed 120 hours behind the wheel with an adult chaperone. I told them to get in the car, because we were going on a drive. To Wyoming.
12-02-2010, 02:36 AM
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yes I have ripped out before, and would again if needed.
Sorry you had to go through this. Was this the first one that you have had done by this person?
Maybe send a smaller one out to a quilter then see what you get bcak before sending out a nice one or one I am saying with a lot of work into it.
ConnieF
Sorry you had to go through this. Was this the first one that you have had done by this person?
Maybe send a smaller one out to a quilter then see what you get bcak before sending out a nice one or one I am saying with a lot of work into it.
ConnieF
12-02-2010, 02:43 AM
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Oh and I'd like to add do your own binding and tell the quiter to NOT trim the outside PLEASE.
I walked into a shop and a lady walked in behind me that had a lady quilt her quilt. She looked and said where are the extra backing? Why was it trimmed and the quilter said she always does that and I comented I wouldnt of wanted mine removed either. I stitch the binding then I trim the batting backing to the binding... I knew she was not happy and as you if there had been a problem she is stuck. You allways need the backing and batting bigger than the top.
Again Good luck with it, and I hope you like it when it is done.
ConnieF
I walked into a shop and a lady walked in behind me that had a lady quilt her quilt. She looked and said where are the extra backing? Why was it trimmed and the quilter said she always does that and I comented I wouldnt of wanted mine removed either. I stitch the binding then I trim the batting backing to the binding... I knew she was not happy and as you if there had been a problem she is stuck. You allways need the backing and batting bigger than the top.
Again Good luck with it, and I hope you like it when it is done.
ConnieF
12-02-2010, 04:51 AM
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not one of my favorite things to do, but I have ripped out machine quilting, and have been glad once the job is over and it is requilted and it looks so much better...if you aren't happy with it as it is, then ripping it is....frustrating though isn't it that the quilter didn't do such a great job at it in the first place.
12-03-2010, 04:01 AM
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Blinky,
Your quilt is absolutely gorgeous! And, I must admit to all that I've ripped out my own LAQ! And I didn't have enough sense to take it off the frame - I sat on the floor - UNDER it - and ripped. Kinda hard on the neck! :thumbdown: Won't do again - next time (and I'm sure there will be!) I'll take it off, and rip like crazy while watching TV!
Please let us know what you do.
Your quilt is absolutely gorgeous! And, I must admit to all that I've ripped out my own LAQ! And I didn't have enough sense to take it off the frame - I sat on the floor - UNDER it - and ripped. Kinda hard on the neck! :thumbdown: Won't do again - next time (and I'm sure there will be!) I'll take it off, and rip like crazy while watching TV!
Please let us know what you do.
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