SweatyPie

The ladies of our guild use a piece of pre-formed wooden lattice from the hardware store to make uniform hatched designs on the quilts we produce for charity. They come in 8 foot panels, which is most convenient for large bed quilts. While storage of your notion photographed above would be easier I have no doubt, I often find that the old fashioned and humble in origin methods work best.

nannyrick

This is what I use too. Works great.

ghostrider

Mine (Bernina) locks in with a thumb screw. It does take a bit of practice to get used to keeping one eye on the needle and one eye on the bar tip.

QuiltnNan

i have one of those... never thought to use it for my cross hatching... great idea

QuiltnNan

this is a great idea too

gale

I'm trying to picture how this would work. Lattice I've seen has boards going in both directions. How would you mark this, other than making small squares all over the quilt?

TerrimB

I used blue painters tape, cream masking tape works as well. I actually laid out the quilt, pinned the layers, then lain out the 1" tape leaving about an inch tween pieces then sewing along one side of each. This way i can just go across one way then flip to sew back the other way. It made simple quilting go quickly.

ghostrider

I would imagine you either connect the spaces in the lines or simply sew from one to the other since the spacing is no more than an inch. It's also entirely possible that only one side of each slat is traced resulting in a more open grid (lattice is typically 3" or 4" oc). I think it's a brilliant idea!

gale

but both sides have wood crossing them. It's a grid so how would someone trace a line?

gale

No idea why that picture shows up twice. I only inserted it once. Sorry.