More Help Needed in Sandwiching
#11
after quilting don`t trim your backing and batting flush with your quilt as it took me years to get a full binding leave a little as in this video i use Gale
http://www.mccallsquilting.com/mccal...ining_the_Ends
http://www.mccallsquilting.com/mccal...ining_the_Ends
#12
If you're using your domestic machine and not a long arm, trim off up to about an inch or 2. The reason is if you have all that fabric flopping around as you quilt, there's a chance it'll wind around and pretty soon you've quilted the flap up under your quilt. I tell you this from experience.....if I leave too much extra fabric on the ends, I always have to get my seam ripper out.
#14
After is best in my opinion.
Also, I do a really long basting stitch all around the outside of the quilt before I start quilting, and one horizontally and vertically down the middle of the quilt. I normally work from the center out on my small DSM. I spray baste so the quilt holds together really well.
Also, I do a really long basting stitch all around the outside of the quilt before I start quilting, and one horizontally and vertically down the middle of the quilt. I normally work from the center out on my small DSM. I spray baste so the quilt holds together really well.
#16
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How much excess are you dealing with? You should always leave a bit because things 'move' when you are quilting.
Better to be safe and trim when you are done. But, you don't need to have 10" hanging around and getting in the way when you are quilting the top.
Better to be safe and trim when you are done. But, you don't need to have 10" hanging around and getting in the way when you are quilting the top.
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