Thread Basting a Quilt/Schamber Style
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I love the Shaumber method of basting, but , Jaquie, you just kicked it up a notch!! Thanks so much for that useful tip about saving the basting thread! I'm pretty frugal and I'm kicking myself thinking of all that thread I've tossed!!
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I will say though that sometimes the FMQ foot will catch a thread, which makes moving the quilt difficult. When I see/feel it - I snip the thread. I'm going to try to avoid most of this the next time by basting my quilt from the back. When basting, the herringbone stitches are long on the front, and short on the back. So if I baste it from the back they should be long on the back and short on the front. Since my feed dogs are down, I wont catch the long stitches on anything, and the few times I might catch the short stitches on the front will be a lot less than I was catching them before. I'll just have to be extra careful when basting to always make sure the front of my quilt (which will be on the bottom) is nicely centered.
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