Will Elmers School glue work with hand quilting?
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Will Elmers School glue work with hand quilting?
I hope to start hand quilting a quilt soon. If I use the Elmers, will it be hard to hand quilt? I am a complete novice when it comes to hand quilting.
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Honestly, I love using glue to match seams but I would not do it on a top I planned to hand quilt. The glue hardens, which would make pushing a needle through it difficult. The only way you could use it is if your quilting plan never goes over a seam that requires matching -- and that is possible if you are going to hand quilt 1/4" away from each seam, which is a traditional method of hand quilting. If you need to hand quilt across seams, I would stay away from glue.
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I glue basted a table runner and got the glue a bit close to the edge. Just sewing the binding on in places where the glue was was really hard to do. I definitely wouldn't glue baste a quilt I was going to hand quilt.
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Im new to quilting but I have used it on some squares for a rag quilt and used only little dots. I found the spots where the dots were I had to stab stitch through but it was manageable. Not sure how it would be doing a larger area.
#7
I had the same problem as Scissor Queen. I just finished a quilt that I glue basted. I had some glue areas near the edge. In hand-sewing the binding to the back those glue areas were very difficult to sew.
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