Yikes! Has this ever happened to you?
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Yikes! Has this ever happened to you?
Thought I was going to have a nice cozy quilt with minky on the back to donate to a fund raiser. Hmmmm. This is what happened when I started quilting. Took out all the stitches and tried hand quilting - same thing happened. It is worse than "bearding". The fleece is pulling to the top of the quilt. Yuk! Now I am hoping that I will get the cotton backing that I ordered to replace the minky in time to get it done. Fund raiser is on March 19th. They will let me bring it in on that day. God love them. Here's hoping that I will make it.
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Yes this has happened to me. Some suggest using a denser batting like W&N. But when it happened to me I had two layers of batting! A layer of 80/20 and Hobbs Polydown on top of that. I tried changing to larger needles, still the same, then a smaller needle, still happened. Others suggest using a more slippery thread like poly. I was using cotton thread. But I wasn't about to experiment further with it. So I ended up giving up on the minky and went with a cotton backing and no more problem. I think it is just the nature of the beast. Some minky will do that and others won't.
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I'm wondering if you would have better luck quilting it from the back rather than the front? Sounds weird and maybe it wouldn't make a difference, but since the top thread grabs the bobbin thread and pulls upwards, it may be pulling the minke fibres up with it. So maybe quilting on the minke side, would it combat this issue?
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Yes this has happened to me. Some suggest using a denser batting like W&N. But when it happened to me I had two layers of batting! A layer of 80/20 and Hobbs Polydown on top of that. I tried changing to larger needles, still the same, then a smaller needle, still happened. Others suggest using a more slippery thread like poly. I was using cotton thread. But I wasn't about to experiment further with it. So I ended up giving up on the minky and went with a cotton backing and no more problem. I think it is just the nature of the beast. Some minky will do that and others won't.
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