Question for LAmers, do you quilt the length??
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Question for LAmers, do you quilt the length??
If you have a quilt that is 66 x 78 do you quilt on the length rather than the width?? You have less passes on pantos. Is it wrong and does it depend on the pattern? I am sometimes afraid of the quilt police..haha
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I might load it either way, depending on the direction of the seams in the backing and also on whether I want the top to be laid out in a particular way while I'm quilting. I don't do pantos, so my decision is not based on that. I do like to be able to load it sideways though, because there's less rolling.
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I'm with Dunster and usually load it so I can quilt the longest portion before I roll. I don't do many pantos and I think it would depend on the design. The ones that nest well look like all over designs so you could load the quilt any way you'd like.
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I do all robotic quilting so it will depend on how the quilt is laid out (the type of blocks). One quilt was all wide strips laid up and down and I wanted to do a feather chain down the length of it so my best bet was attaching it lengthwise across the frame instead of widthwise. I chunk my borders so it doesn't matter which direction the quilt is for that portion.
Otherwise I would think it would depend on how you want the quilting to look on that particular quilt. Sometimes if the pantos is close enough you can't tell where one row stops and the next one starts. Looks like all one big pattern.
Otherwise I would think it would depend on how you want the quilting to look on that particular quilt. Sometimes if the pantos is close enough you can't tell where one row stops and the next one starts. Looks like all one big pattern.
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