Eeeeek! Quilting OBW Lumps and Bumps
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I just finished the top for my first OBW - lovely hexigons from farm/cow fabric - and I think that it turned out great. Now I must quilt the beast....and am trying to figure out how. I've carefully flattened and ironed the intersections, but holy cow.....that's alot of fabric all in a big lump! My machine was having issues just stitching it all together, I don't imagine that I'll be able to free motion (or have long armed) without breaking a good number of needles....and there is NO WAY that I want to hand quilt through all of that!
Oh...next dilema....my sides stretched when I put on my boarders and I need to square up.
How have you overcome the OBW hurdles? What pattern did you use to quilt?
Linda - San Diego Quilter
Oh...next dilema....my sides stretched when I put on my boarders and I need to square up.
How have you overcome the OBW hurdles? What pattern did you use to quilt?
Linda - San Diego Quilter
#3
Take a rubber mallet and wackem one it will help flatten them out, I have a kaleidoscope at the quilter now, I have not heard if shes had an issue but I know my good friend Deb used the same quilter for her moms kaliedoscope and the quilter did not mention any breakage of needles or any other issue .
hope this makes you feel more comfortable
Sandra
hope this makes you feel more comfortable
Sandra
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did you press seams open? That helps me when I have a lot of seams coming together in one place. I've also been known to use a small dollar store mallet with a felt coating on it to smash the centers a bit.
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With the seams pressed open I didn't find that there was that much bulk in my OBW's. I quilted some of them in the ditch, since that gave a lovely design on the back and quilting doesn't show much on the front anyway. Others I just did swirls, feathers, whatever...
Oh yeah, show us your OBW!!! We want to see it.
Oh yeah, show us your OBW!!! We want to see it.
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Finally - here are a couple pics of the quilt. Sorry - could not get the entire quilt in one picture. I hung it on my wall unit and I could not back up any further without going up the fireplace.....
Per the suggestion, I think that I will take the boarders off.
While I cut sides and top to the measurement of the center of the quilt, both the quilt top and the boarders stretched as I sewed. Will it help if I trim them and starch the heck out of them? I didn't use a walking foot, but think that I will when I put them back on.
BTW - I just LOVE this group!!! :)
Linda - San Diego Quilter
Per the suggestion, I think that I will take the boarders off.
While I cut sides and top to the measurement of the center of the quilt, both the quilt top and the boarders stretched as I sewed. Will it help if I trim them and starch the heck out of them? I didn't use a walking foot, but think that I will when I put them back on.
BTW - I just LOVE this group!!! :)
Linda - San Diego Quilter
Top half of quilt
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Bottom half of quilt
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