More quilting after finished & bound?
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More quilting after finished & bound?
Anyone ever added more quilting after you have finished the quilt - including binding? I finished a baby quilt that I think needs more quilting than I did. If you've quilted "after the fact" how did it work for you? Any tips or recommendations?
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Do it all the time! Hopefully you did enough to stabilize it. A little harder to do on a long arm, you have to attach the finished ends to leaders. Otherwise, if you are doing on your domestic, just stick it in and let 'er rip!
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This can be done on the machine you used to quilt the first of the quilt (as with a domestic machine). I am using a longarm. I just pin the quilt back on the leaders on the frame the same way I did when the quilt was just a backing. You just have to be careful not to quilt on the binding. (Quilting slower when near the edge with the longarm). :-)
I have also done as Dunster said and just clamped the quilt around the frame. I use the clamps to hold the quilt in place so I can wrap it around the frame....that is basically the same result as pinning.
Last edited by Ellen 1; 11-02-2019 at 08:05 AM.
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Just want to add, I had made a cute child’s quilt and just quilted around the “lines” of the character. After it had been washed a few times, it looked very “sloppy”. I pinned it back on my longarm and “quilted it to death”. It looked so much better and I am happy I added the quilting. Do not be afraid to add as much quilting as you think it needs.
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I had a quilt that was quilted at the minimum amount, every 4 inches. The weight of the quilt when I tried to move it started popping both the block seams and the quilting stitches. I added a lot more quilting and solved the problem totally. Now, I try to not have any areas more than 2 inches without quilting, regardless of what the batting requires. I do use pantographs mostly and they interlace so that there is support everywhere on the quilt to prevent seams popping.
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