How important is SITD for securing before quilting?
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How important is SITD for securing before quilting?
If I am going to be doing an all over fmq on my quilt top, is it still necessary to stitch some grids/lines to secure the sandwich? I have spray basted and also pinned. Usually I SITD my blocks before I quilt but I wonder if it is necessary in this instance when my fm pattern will be quite close and will cover the whole quilt. Thanking you for all opinions.
Woops, didn't mean SITD in the title....meant to say "stitching"
Woops, didn't mean SITD in the title....meant to say "stitching"
Last edited by ruby2shoes; 09-02-2017 at 01:49 AM.
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If the quilt is large, and will be pushed and pulled a lot through the harp of my domestic machine, I stitch grid lines with water soluble thread. They'll wash away and don't interfere with any FMQ design I might choose.
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Thank you, Nan. I just did a king sized quilt using quilting in sections. I did not SITD and just free motion quilted over the whole thing. It came out great and lays very flat. I sort of got excited about FMQ and just forgot to SITD so I was a bit apprehensive in how the first section was going to come out but it came out great. I did spray baste each section.
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