My can't quilt without tool.
03-21-2013, 02:07 PM
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@nellie, no not really. I just could never get used to them. I buy those little leather pads that stick to your finger and use my thumbs fingernail when needed. I tried thimbles. But those pads give me so much control, I love them.
03-21-2013, 10:26 PM
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Your stitches are beautiful! I use a brass Roxanne's thimble on my thumb, and for some reason it grips the needle and pulls it through. I have also used a needle holder or hemostat (those lightweight medical instruments mentioned earlier), but it's faster if the thimble pulls the needle through, because I don't have to stop to pick something else up and put it back down.
03-22-2013, 04:48 AM
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OH MAN! I was just getting comfortable with my hand quilting...thinking that I wasn't doing such a bad job UNTIL YOU POSTED YOUR PICTURE! PFFTTT!!
Way to burst my bubble. Wow! What gorgeous quilting. Guess I should not be so confident---I obviously still need lots more practice. Someday I will be able to tell which quilts were my first ones.
You are checking the underside??? Are you supposed to check the underside? OOPS!!! Now I really feel stupid!!
Your quilting is gorgeous! I have several hemostats (medical instruments that weren't good enough for surgery but are good enough for quilting). Guess I had better get them out but not until I get good. Right now I am only doing 2-4 stitches on my needle...works for me so far!!
I remember the whole cloth quilter from Germany on the QB (don't remember her name--sorry) who only does one stitch at a time and her quilting is awesome...so I am a bit faster than that, I think.
Way to burst my bubble. Wow! What gorgeous quilting. Guess I should not be so confident---I obviously still need lots more practice. Someday I will be able to tell which quilts were my first ones.
You are checking the underside??? Are you supposed to check the underside? OOPS!!! Now I really feel stupid!!
Your quilting is gorgeous! I have several hemostats (medical instruments that weren't good enough for surgery but are good enough for quilting). Guess I had better get them out but not until I get good. Right now I am only doing 2-4 stitches on my needle...works for me so far!!
I remember the whole cloth quilter from Germany on the QB (don't remember her name--sorry) who only does one stitch at a time and her quilting is awesome...so I am a bit faster than that, I think.
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