Quilting your quilt
By brenda | February 5, 2009
Quilting your quilt
There are a variety of ways to get different effects on your quilt. For our purposes we will be discussing stitch in the ditch while using your walking foot. The stitch in the ditch is simply sewing your quilt top down the seam lines already in the quilt top. In our mock up, our seam will be the line we drew down the center of the fabric.
As I said you will need a walking foot and if your machine does not have one, please try to get one as it will make your quilting experience so much easier. The reason is that it feeds the three layers evenly under your needle and presser foot. This is so important when you are quilting as you do not want to have puckers on your quilt top. Just as you started pinning from the middle of your quilt, so will you need to start quilting from the middle.
Make your stitch length a medium size, maybe two settings larger than what you used when you were sewing your blocks together. This will reduce puckers.Remove your safety pins as you get near to them, remember you do not want to be sewing over in metal objects whatsoever. Slowly follow your seams
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When you come to the end of a line of quilting and you want to change direction, lower your needle, lift your presser foot up and turn your quilt in the desired direction. Note that I’ve used black thread for the rest of these instructions to make the sew lines stand out. You would not want to do this. This will eliminate lots of loose threads on the
back of your quilt.
When you have completed sewing your quilt together, head back to the cutting mat. You will need to trim the excess backing and batting off of your quilt. Once again measure your quilt top, middle and bottom to ensure that it is all straight and square and now you are ready to put your binding on your quilt
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April 8th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
good stuff, cant wait to read more… explanation’s are clear and easy to understand…