gafarbles? Patrice I love your vocabulary! :mrgreen: :lol:

I had to go to the doctor last year because of a multitude of gafarbles! Painful stuff...

Awesome

I have done this several times. My free motion quilting has a lot to be desired and this is a wonderful way of hiding the horrible mess I can create. LOL. I am also trying a piece of trapunto right now that is being done in this manner. So much fun and adventure.

Great job - but another weird question - why not just quilt it all at same time????i[/quote]

Much harder to get it all under the machine and be able to move around to make the FMQ look nice. SOOO much easier this other way. Just have to make sure the SID is enough to "support" the front and batting and keep it from shifting.

What a neat idea!!

Doesn't the batting cause a lot of trouble on the feed dogs, etc? I've noticed my batting likes to catch on things as I'm moving a sandwiched quilt around while working on it.

I don't use my feed dogs when FMQing, so no, the batting doesn't get chewed up.

i usually cut up hunks of very lightweight muslin or fabrics that are too flimsy to use in the visible part of any quilt and use those as an inner backing. i just make sure it won't show through the fabric i've chosen for the final backing.

i usually cut up hunks of very lightweight muslin or fabrics that are too flimsy to use in the visible part of any quilt and use those as an inner backing. i just make sure it won't show through the fabric i've chosen for the final backing.