Puckered Basting Threads
12-05-2019, 02:38 PM
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Puckered Basting Threads
I am close to actually quilting my first top. I have been experimenting with a quilt sandwich to adjust tension settings, stitch length, etc. I keep getting puckers next to the basting line whether I have it set to 6 for basting (see photo) or any other length.
I see so many quilts online that are completely flat by all of the stitch lines, but I don't know how this is achieved. Is it my stitch/tension settings? My batting? The photo was taken using a mid-poly, but I got similar results using 100% cotton batting, too.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! I am quilting on a Juki TL 2010q, using a walking foot.
I see so many quilts online that are completely flat by all of the stitch lines, but I don't know how this is achieved. Is it my stitch/tension settings? My batting? The photo was taken using a mid-poly, but I got similar results using 100% cotton batting, too.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! I am quilting on a Juki TL 2010q, using a walking foot.
12-05-2019, 03:44 PM
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What you picture looks perfectly normal to me. From what I can see your tension looks good. That little bit of gathering (I wouldn't call those puckers) on either side of your line of stitching is the result of the fabric and batting being compressed at the stitching line and the loft of the unstitched area on either side is causing this. Depending on how densely you quilt some of it will quilt out but some will still show. Here are some before and after shots to demonstrate. I had already densely quilted around those white sashiko squares. Oh my don't they look horribly wrinkled?
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Here is the same long shot of this quilt after I quilted in the white blocks. all those wrinkles and gathers quilted out. This quilt also has poly batting (Hobbs poly down). But look closely at the cornerstones in red that I quilted a single flower. There is a bit of that gathering in the unquilted areas of the cornerstones and it is completely normal.
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Here is the same long shot of this quilt after I quilted in the white blocks. all those wrinkles and gathers quilted out. This quilt also has poly batting (Hobbs poly down). But look closely at the cornerstones in red that I quilted a single flower. There is a bit of that gathering in the unquilted areas of the cornerstones and it is completely normal.
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Last edited by feline fanatic; 12-05-2019 at 03:46 PM.
12-06-2019, 03:37 PM
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Thank you so much, Feline Fanatic!!! Your wonderful explanation plus the pictures really helped me out. Your quilting is absolutely beautiful!
I was concentrating so hard on that one line of stitches, I did not think at all about what the whole quilt finished would look like (and I wouldn't have the experience to figure it out, anyway). Thanks again!
I was concentrating so hard on that one line of stitches, I did not think at all about what the whole quilt finished would look like (and I wouldn't have the experience to figure it out, anyway). Thanks again!
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