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Well....I hate to admit, but the aha was when I finally learned to make bobbins. I didn't know how and was ready to give up quilting forever.(I didn't take up sewing or quilting until I was about 56 years old, and try to take lessons and they filled all the bobbins for us so I just used the ones they filled. NOT a good idea. LOL
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Originally Posted by jitkaau
I don't like finishing off the binding by hand as it is always too time consuming. Doing it all by machine was a bit hit and miss until a tailor showed me a trick of how I could sew it all by machine, and it was just as neat on both sides. No - one can tell from which side I was doing the final stitching and my binding goes on very quickly.
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practice,practice,practice and before you start FMQ practice on amother samll piece practice does make perfect
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Use the serpentine stitch on my machine for machine quilting instead of quilting in the ditch. Using those decorative stitches on my machine was my AHA moment!
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I just saw a video that uses the button hole stitch and does it on the good side of the quilt when she machine stitches the binding.
Originally Posted by Pam J
Use the serpentine stitch on my machine for machine quilting instead of quilting in the ditch. Using those decorative stitches on my machine was my AHA moment!
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To enjoy, the rest will fall into place! The rest you can pick up on this board..
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Don't wait to square up your finished top. Square your blocks as you make them. Your finished top should not need squaring up or if it does very little and easier to do.
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I have no idea what Kinetic Energy is, could you put a picture up of your quilt. I also agree, sometimes teachers flub up and we are not sure of what they meant until it is too late. But then again no one is perfect right?
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I started using silk thread and could not keep it threaded - a quilting friend showed me how to tie the tread at the eye of the needle and it is a life saver and every time I thread silk I think of her!
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Dear Madamekelly, Here is the best advise I every recieved. "Better to do something imperfectly, then to do nothing perfectly." What ya think? Works for me. Have a grest day. And remember "This is the day that the Lord has made so rejoice and be glad in it." Love ya Glo
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