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Machine Quilting Tips From an Expert
From Cutting to Machine Quilting and Binding . . .
Transform Your Fat Quarter Fabric Pieces
into a Beautiful Quilt – with ease!
Get the inside track on choosing fabrics, exploring time-saving techniques, and discovering quilting designs unique to fat quarter quilts.
Your friends and family will be amazed to see what you can do with small bits of fabric, whether they come from brand new fat quarters or cut up shirts from the thrift shop.
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May 21 was an exciting day for How-to-Quilters when expert machine quilter Pam Bauer allowed us to Eavesdrop on the Telephone Conversation between her and QuiltingCoach Penny Halgren.
Pam has been machine quilting for 10 years and has spent thousands of hours and dollars perfecting her skill. Here are just a few tips she shared with us on the phone:
- Make sure your quilt is fully supported as you machine quilt - do not let it hang down the sides of your table. Place your table up against a wall, or surround it with chairs to prevent your quilt from falling off, and scrunch the quilt up in your lap to feed it into your machine.
- Special gardening gloves can help you guide your quilt through your sewing machine.
- Form a frame with your hands to guide the quilt through the machine. Spread your fingers around the needle area and have your thumbs touching as you guide the quilt. Remember, with the feed dogs down on your machine, your hands become the feed dogs. And if they aren’t moving, your quilt isn’t moving either.
- Begin your quilting on an outside border and work your way into the center of the quilt. That doesn’t mean that you will quilt the entire border before you move into the center. It means that you start in a corner, and then work your way around the corner and into the center.
- Use blue painters’ tape (from a hardware store) to mark your straight lines. Golden Threads tracing paper is good for creating pattern templates for quilting designs.
- Starch the backing of your quilt until it is stiff to prevent puckers and tucks on the back as you machine quilt.
- Use basting spray to baste your quilt layers together. That way, you don't need to work around pins or basting threads.
Happy Quilting!
Penny Halgren
www.How-to-Quilt.com
www.TheQuiltingCoach.com
www.QuiltBlockLibrary.com
©2009, Penny Halgren
Penny is a quilter of more than 27 years who seeks to interest new
quilters and provide them with the resources necessary to create
beautiful quilts.
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