hand quilting over seams??
08-27-2011, 09:56 AM
#51
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Is it a gift, a donation, or for yourself? As a longarmer as well as a long-time hand quilter, if it were mine to do I would probably machine quilt it. All those many seams would dampen my hand quilting enjoyment, but depending on where it will go would surely determine how I would quilt it
08-27-2011, 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by KS quilter
I also agree with Kristin. I've made this quilt a few years
back. Rhonda Dieker created that pattern, and her shop used
to be 40 minutes from me. I hand quilted mine. If I'm on a
seam and it doesn't always get the back layer on a stitch, I
don't worry about it. It doesn't happen often and is alomost impossible to find a missed stitch.
back. Rhonda Dieker created that pattern, and her shop used
to be 40 minutes from me. I hand quilted mine. If I'm on a
seam and it doesn't always get the back layer on a stitch, I
don't worry about it. It doesn't happen often and is alomost impossible to find a missed stitch.
08-27-2011, 10:30 AM
#54
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Originally Posted by Kristin in ME
Thank you very much, humbird! Btw, the quilt in your avatar is beautiful!
Just one more thing I wanted to mention- on this quilt, I seem to have picked up a new habit when I stitch through a seam. To keep the stitch from being too long, I started pressing down on the fabric in front of the tip of the needle as I rocked it back up. At first I was doing it with my thumb nail- the tip of the needle gradually wore away at my thumb nail until it got ruined and I had to cut it! Now that my thumb nail is too short, I've started doing the same thing with just my thumb, but let go of the fabric just before the tip of the needle comes to the surface. This forces the needle to come up through the fabric where I want it to.
Just one more thing I wanted to mention- on this quilt, I seem to have picked up a new habit when I stitch through a seam. To keep the stitch from being too long, I started pressing down on the fabric in front of the tip of the needle as I rocked it back up. At first I was doing it with my thumb nail- the tip of the needle gradually wore away at my thumb nail until it got ruined and I had to cut it! Now that my thumb nail is too short, I've started doing the same thing with just my thumb, but let go of the fabric just before the tip of the needle comes to the surface. This forces the needle to come up through the fabric where I want it to.
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08-27-2011, 03:37 PM
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One thing you could do, although I have never done this, is press the seams open, if you haven't sandwiched it yet. That would make the seams less bulky. My stitches get a little bigger on the bottom side over the seams, but I'm not compulsive about it. I go be the galloping horses rule. No one will ever notice unless they examine every stitch on the back. That said, I usually do outline quilting so avoid as many seams as possible.
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