Longarm- Turning vs Chunking
08-28-2020, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Peckish
Chunking is when you quilt part of the border (the east or west side), advance the quilt, quilt the next part of the border, advance, etc. Instead of quilting the border all at once, like you can do with the north or south sides. So the OP was asking if we quilt the east and west borders in chunks, or do we turn the quilt so the east-west sides are running north-south, and quilt the whole border in one swoop.
08-28-2020, 04:13 PM
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Thanks for the explanation! Learned a new term...anyway..depends on the quilting I plan to do in the border..if it's geometric, it's easier to blend a stop/start place, if it's flowing, like feathers, then I will turn the quilt.Also, for me, some designs just flow better for me in one direction, so I will decide based upon my preference for direction.
08-29-2020, 04:12 AM
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If I have borders to quilt, I always remove the quilt from the frame (after the north and south borders have been quilted, along with most of the body of the quilt) to quilt the final borders. I find my borders look much better, smooth and flowing borders are important to me.
08-29-2020, 06:06 AM
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whoa....I was a chunker and didn't even know it! I even planned my border design when I did one (mostly just go for over-all quilting and have gotten away from borders more and more...preferring just to have borderless quilts) .....to be able to include the borders in the pass I was on so I didn't have to turn the quilt. I think I started doing it this way because I had a 10 foot frame at first and could not turn the larger quilts on that frame....now that I have a 12 foot frame, I could on the size quilts I make.
08-29-2020, 06:44 AM
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Mindless, I think my friend's frame was a Grace, white enameled metal bars. The 2" wide tape was plenty to hold the fabric, I'd tear about 6-8" chunks and carefully line up the straight edge of my fabric to the little dip in the bar. It was fast, you could reuse/reposition the tape if you wanted (I usually didn't bother and a big ball would end up in the trash) and no safety pins or basting! One large roll may seem expensive but I think we did at least 20 quilts that year with that one roll of tape. It also left no discernible residue, but I typically wiped off the bars in my clean up procedures.
