Quilting Police - Are they Watching?
#15
Originally Posted by sueisallaboutquilts
Edie, I agree with the others and I know from experience how much fun hand quilting is. Very relaxing for me. However, being a rabid Yankees fan I'm sometimes not that relaxed hahahahahaha :D
#17
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Edie, I absolutely agree with all the others: of course you can do the backstitch for quilting! This stitch was used about 600 years ago for the Tristan Quilt, made in Sicily - one of the oldest surviving examples of handquilted items.
If you are interested, look here:
http://www.illuminatedspaces.com/his.../qsource11.htm
So when you use this method you keep a tradition alive!
If you are interested, look here:
http://www.illuminatedspaces.com/his.../qsource11.htm
So when you use this method you keep a tradition alive!
#19
I have never gotten the "rocking needle" motion for hand quilting. My stitches aren't very small either but they are consistent and my quilting method works for me. Do what works for you and forget the quilting police (they aren't real anyway and just gives us nightmares LOL)
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