machine quilting in pieces
05-15-2012, 04:19 AM
#21
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I have done 5 quilts using this quilt as you go method:
http://welshquilter.blogspot.com/200...as-you-go.html
It works great for me, and for now it is the method I prefer.
Dayle
http://welshquilter.blogspot.com/200...as-you-go.html
It works great for me, and for now it is the method I prefer.
Dayle
05-15-2012, 06:58 AM
#22
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I hand sew my batting together with large zig zag stitches. I haven't done QAYG very much. I have no problem getting a large quilt quilted on my Juki TL98QE or Babylock Jane, 9" throats.
Good luck, lots of good help here. Welcome to this great board.
Good luck, lots of good help here. Welcome to this great board.
05-15-2012, 08:03 AM
#24
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I have used interfacing (the lightest I can find) and I haven't had any problems with it. I am working on a string
spider web quilt right now and using it instead of paper under the strings, I hate ripping paper out. I will leave it
in the quilt. No, I didn't prewash the interfacing, as I haven't prewashed my batiks either. I will use the color
catcher when I wash it after it is quilted.
spider web quilt right now and using it instead of paper under the strings, I hate ripping paper out. I will leave it
in the quilt. No, I didn't prewash the interfacing, as I haven't prewashed my batiks either. I will use the color
catcher when I wash it after it is quilted.
05-15-2012, 12:54 PM
#25
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Hi...I'm not quite sure of the technique you are describing but I have read of a method I thought I'd like to try next time I make a large quilt.
You make your entire top and have your entire backing prepared as you normally would. Then you take your batting and cut it into approximate thirds and place one third down the middle of your quilt. You then quilt this section, which means you aren't trying to fit so much bulk under your machine as the sides don't yet have batting. Then, you take your next third of batting and butt that batting up to your previous batting that you've already quilted into your quilt. You can join it with a serpentine type stitch, or I believe there are tapes you can use. Then you continue with your quilting on this section. Then, attached your last third of batting to the other side and then finish quilting on that side.
This way you aren't trying to fit all that bulk under your machine as you can turn your quilt as you do your two side sections and only ever have the current third of batting under your machine (does that make sense?..hope so..lol).
I've also seen it recommended that, when you cut your batting into thirds, that you cut it with a wavy line so that when you butt and join it, you don't have a straight line of join and it will blend in better.
Maybe someone here has already tried this method and can comment further
You make your entire top and have your entire backing prepared as you normally would. Then you take your batting and cut it into approximate thirds and place one third down the middle of your quilt. You then quilt this section, which means you aren't trying to fit so much bulk under your machine as the sides don't yet have batting. Then, you take your next third of batting and butt that batting up to your previous batting that you've already quilted into your quilt. You can join it with a serpentine type stitch, or I believe there are tapes you can use. Then you continue with your quilting on this section. Then, attached your last third of batting to the other side and then finish quilting on that side.
This way you aren't trying to fit all that bulk under your machine as you can turn your quilt as you do your two side sections and only ever have the current third of batting under your machine (does that make sense?..hope so..lol).
I've also seen it recommended that, when you cut your batting into thirds, that you cut it with a wavy line so that when you butt and join it, you don't have a straight line of join and it will blend in better.
Maybe someone here has already tried this method and can comment further
05-15-2012, 03:48 PM
#27
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I remembered years ago, my first quilt. I had a class and the teacher gave out a name of Georgia Bonesteel,
the first she had heard of making the lap quilting and that is what she was teaching. Ms. Bonesteel has several books,
I saw her on Create TV a month ago, not again so far. I have one of her books, New Ideas for Lap Quilting.
maybe your library has some of her books, or even the computer. I was really afraid I would never get it together.
I did andreally liked it, it was so easy to take with me and work on by hand, it is a sampler quilt, with sashes and a border. I sewed the batting together by hand, big whipped stiches & pressed by hand. By machine sewing the fabric
of each block together& then each row. For the border and sashes I I stiched hearts and wavy lines. I still have it.
She has great pictures and simple instructions. Give it a try and enjoy~
the first she had heard of making the lap quilting and that is what she was teaching. Ms. Bonesteel has several books,
I saw her on Create TV a month ago, not again so far. I have one of her books, New Ideas for Lap Quilting.
maybe your library has some of her books, or even the computer. I was really afraid I would never get it together.
I did andreally liked it, it was so easy to take with me and work on by hand, it is a sampler quilt, with sashes and a border. I sewed the batting together by hand, big whipped stiches & pressed by hand. By machine sewing the fabric
of each block together& then each row. For the border and sashes I I stiched hearts and wavy lines. I still have it.
She has great pictures and simple instructions. Give it a try and enjoy~
05-15-2012, 04:58 PM
#28
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Love this book! Marti also gives instructions on "low-fat" quilting where you add the batting to the completed top in sections, like Miss ticky 2 described
05-16-2012, 04:12 AM
#29
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I just finished a 120" x 100". I did it in 2 sections leaving 2" unquilted on the side I needed to connect. After getting both sections quilted I sewed the top together, turned the quilt over and overlapped the lining. I basted(on machine) with an off color thread through all layers then turned it back to the top and stitched in the ditch through all layers. This caught most of the lining. What didn't catch I finished by hand then took out the basting. I had quilted the center before taking out the basting. This way I only had to handle the entire quilt to quilt the 4" in the center.
Good Luck
Good Luck
05-16-2012, 11:13 AM
#30
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The Fun and Done way is by cutting the backing larger than the block and batting then bringing the backing up between two blocks to connect them. Then you sew it down on the front of the blocks to form a sashing. Do the same with the rows.
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