Vintage machine quilting(looks like hand quilting)
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Vintage machine quilting(looks like hand quilting)
A year or two ago I ask members how to make vintage machine quilting to look like hand quilting. Use two threads on top and one on the bobbin. I used poly on the bottom and two white threads on the top. I would like to show you a picture of my quilting on a pot holder quilt. Of course you quilt on the back of the quilt
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Thank you, I am quilting with a 1916 Singer Redeye mdl 66 and this quilting on the back gives the best look on the top of the quilt. The two threads show up as the handquilting on top of quilt. This is the way I was showed by my grandma and just continued to do the same with this treadle machine. I will try the invisible thread on top and adjust the tension the next time. I have about 40 antique machines including a 1855 Grover and Baker and these machines have thier own way of doing things. I sew with all of them.
PS My wife thinks I am crazy for not using a good electric machine
PS My wife thinks I am crazy for not using a good electric machine
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Or if you have an extra $2,000 or so just laying around, you can buy the Baby Lock Sashiko machine. It's a one-trick pony, but it really does look like hand stitching, and you can change the length of the stitches and the size of the gap between the stitches. I have it on my "when my ship comes in" list.
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