What is the best tip you ever got?
10-06-2010, 09:34 AM
#111
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Well....I hate to admit, but the aha was when I finally learned to make bobbins. I didn't know how and was ready to give up quilting forever.(I didn't take up sewing or quilting until I was about 56 years old, and try to take lessons and they filled all the bobbins for us so I just used the ones they filled. NOT a good idea. LOL
10-06-2010, 09:36 AM
#112
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Originally Posted by jitkaau
I don't like finishing off the binding by hand as it is always too time consuming. Doing it all by machine was a bit hit and miss until a tailor showed me a trick of how I could sew it all by machine, and it was just as neat on both sides. No - one can tell from which side I was doing the final stitching and my binding goes on very quickly.
10-06-2010, 09:41 AM
#115
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I just saw a video that uses the button hole stitch and does it on the good side of the quilt when she machine stitches the binding.
Originally Posted by Pam J
Use the serpentine stitch on my machine for machine quilting instead of quilting in the ditch. Using those decorative stitches on my machine was my AHA moment!
10-06-2010, 09:58 AM
#118
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I have no idea what Kinetic Energy is, could you put a picture up of your quilt. I also agree, sometimes teachers flub up and we are not sure of what they meant until it is too late. But then again no one is perfect right?
10-06-2010, 10:08 AM
#120
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Dear Madamekelly, Here is the best advise I every recieved. "Better to do something imperfectly, then to do nothing perfectly." What ya think? Works for me. Have a grest day. And remember "This is the day that the Lord has made so rejoice and be glad in it." Love ya Glo
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