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Your quilt is very pretty.
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Whatever you decide on the quilting will be great. That is such a cute quilt. About your tension issue. Try completely rethreading the machine. Sometimes that will do it
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Loved your quilt. I had the same problem with loops every so many stitches. My thread then began to shred.
I put in a new needle size 11 and it solved both problems |
I guess I will find out soon enough whether the needle is the culprit! I need to sew a quick seam down the backing, and then I'll be making the quilt sandwich. I'll use some scraps to see whether the new needle and thread solve the issue. Last night, sewing faster seemed to help fix the problem, though I shouldn't have to sew at rapid speed to have even stitches! Oh, and I measured the bobbin (I don't have the package anymore to see whether it was for my specific machine), and it did match at least in that regard to what my machine's instruction manual called for.
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Originally Posted by Lintu
Hi, I'm new here! I have just about finished a quilt top for my daughter's birthday (she's turning 1) and I can't decide how to quilt it. I'm debating between stippling and straight line quilting (with lines 1/4" outside each of the sashing seams). And I also can't decide what color would look nice for the quilting thread. I was thinking pale pink or pale blue if I do stippling, and gray to match the sashing if I do straight line.
Also...I'm getting something weird with my sewing machine. It's not that I get loops on one side whenever I sew---that I would know how to fix (tension)---but I'll get 5 normal stitches, then one that seems a little loose, then 8 normal stitches, then one that seems a little loose. Any thoughts? Thanks so much :) |
I agree, change needle, rethread machine and oil.
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Thread colour depends on whether you end up quilting the sashing separately from the blocks. A variegated thread could look really nice on that grey in particular, and you can get lovely threads which go through several pastel colours. Look at the Sulky Blendable range, for instance.
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I hadn't planned to quilt the sashing separately, but rather continue whichever pattern throughout (either allover stippling or meander or straight lines).
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Well, the thread will go over the sashing either way, and your sashing is a) darker than your blocks b) a single solid colour, so the thread will look different on the sashing to how it will look on the blocks. Do you have any thread sitting around that you could drizzle over the quilt, see how it looks?
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Looking at all those beautifully done quilts makes me feel like hanging up my sewing machine. I'll never achieve the expertise it took to do them.
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