My First Hand Quilted Block
03-25-2016, 04:39 AM
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Wonderful start. Looks beautiful. There is nothing more beautiful than hand quilting even though it is time consuming. Start with a plan and keep at it. We do that technique with other things like paying bills, filing statements, doing the dishes, etc. Why not set aside a time each day or week to hand quilt on your wonderful quilt?
03-25-2016, 04:47 AM
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Hand quilting can be very slow compared to machine quilting but is also very satisfying when done and a hand quilted piece is so soft when done. In our hurry up world, hand quilting while watching tv, listening to music or just listening to the quiet can be so relaxing, hang in there and enjoy the process.
03-25-2016, 04:57 AM
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Now that is absolutely the bee's knees. This quilt is going to be epic! So much work in the quilt top and hand stitching will make this a beautiful, treasured heirloom. Keep going...and share your progress. Love it!
03-25-2016, 05:03 AM
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Your first time hand quilting???!! Your stitches look great, keep up the good work. You will find your speed increasing without you even realizing it. Please share when you are all done. I need to start hand quilting something again.
03-25-2016, 05:05 AM
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03-25-2016, 06:06 AM
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You are doing great! I think Alex Anderson says it takes at least 20 hours of hand quilting to begin to feel confident. Looks like you are off to a wonderful start. Even after over 40 yrs. of hand quilting in a floor frame, I still pretty much quilt toward me or from right to left. (I'm right handed.) Very limited quilting away from me and then mostly on things that slant upwards where I can still quilt right to left, but uphill.
I recently quilted a Dear Jane for a customer. On those triangles along the edge, I did what I call quilting from the center of my thread. Instead of popping a knot through and quilting from the end of my thread from the top of the triangle to the bottom, cutting my thread and starting again at the top and quilting down the other side, I did not knot my thread and just started quilting at the top leaving a thread tail long enough to re-thread later and quilt down the other side. A Dear Jane is such fun to quilt because there is not the boredom of quilting the same block over and over again. Have fun!!!
I recently quilted a Dear Jane for a customer. On those triangles along the edge, I did what I call quilting from the center of my thread. Instead of popping a knot through and quilting from the end of my thread from the top of the triangle to the bottom, cutting my thread and starting again at the top and quilting down the other side, I did not knot my thread and just started quilting at the top leaving a thread tail long enough to re-thread later and quilt down the other side. A Dear Jane is such fun to quilt because there is not the boredom of quilting the same block over and over again. Have fun!!!
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