What is the best tip you ever got?
10-07-2010, 03:00 PM
#181
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,162
Originally Posted by Jan in VA
The wisdom, "Sometimes, even though your quilt isn't finished, you're finished with your quilt. Even Beethoven left things unfinished, and no one doubts his genius!"
Jan in VA
Jan in VA
8-)
10-07-2010, 03:09 PM
#182
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,162
Originally Posted by kpelletier83
Best tip I ever got was how to make a design board with those insulation boards. Love it! Getting on the floor is a pain!
One I just discovered for myself. I used my lint roller to remove the lose threads after ripping apart a seam. Roll across and all the threads just disappear!
I keep a lint roller in my sewing area and use it constantly to get those pesky threads off my ironing table.
One I just discovered for myself. I used my lint roller to remove the lose threads after ripping apart a seam. Roll across and all the threads just disappear!
I keep a lint roller in my sewing area and use it constantly to get those pesky threads off my ironing table.
10-07-2010, 03:10 PM
#183
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,162
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.
10-07-2010, 03:40 PM
#184
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Mt Spokane, Washington
Posts: 120
A tip my mentor ( long time quilter) has done that I think is brilliant. She used batting to make a design wall, put it up on a wall with a crown molding piece, and the batting hangs down to the floor, quilt pieces stick without pinning , to be moved around to find how you want them. Lots easier than crawling on the floor, and you can cross the room to get a better view.
also my view on striving for perfection, won't happen from this girl, but I always try to make this project a little better than the last, and learn from your mistakes.
also my view on striving for perfection, won't happen from this girl, but I always try to make this project a little better than the last, and learn from your mistakes.
10-07-2010, 06:44 PM
#185
Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Georgia
Posts: 82
This video for making a perfect binding has been a great help!
http://sharonschambernetwork.com/Cla...The-Angel.aspx
http://sharonschambernetwork.com/Cla...The-Angel.aspx
10-07-2010, 06:46 PM
#186
Super Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
Posts: 7,695
Originally Posted by noveltyjunkie
Originally Posted by dgmoby
Originally Posted by buslady
I always make my binding double, sew the two edges to the quilt, then roll the fold to the other side and stitch it, feels like it would be more durable than a single layer. I like this idea since it does afford the opportunity to use two different color bindings!! Great idea, thank you!!
10-08-2010, 04:52 AM
#187
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Georgia, USA
Posts: 799
Originally Posted by earthwalker
Too hard to pick one! but the latest was really useful....winding your binding on a toilet roll tube...so simple and effective.
10-08-2010, 06:33 AM
#188
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,162
Originally Posted by HisPatchwork
Originally Posted by earthwalker
Too hard to pick one! but the latest was really useful....winding your binding on a toilet roll tube...so simple and effective.
8-)
10-08-2010, 07:41 AM
#189
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 187
Originally Posted by myothsec
Best "AHA! tip - TURN your home machine sideways when free motion quilting - it allows more room for the quilt, and the needle doesn't care if you sit in front of the machine or on the end of it. Makes handling bulky quilts MUCH easier!
10-08-2010, 08:09 AM
#190
Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 187
Originally Posted by brushandthimble
wet the eye of the needle instead of the thread.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
dray965
Main
87
05-09-2013 06:34 PM
raptureready
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
10
12-14-2010 12:17 PM
Nanax4
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
16
11-19-2010 05:07 AM
