Machine and/or hand quilting
#1
I am ready to finish a quilt that I would like to enter into quilt contests. The quilt blocks are hand appliqued and tedious. I would like to machine quilt the sashing and border using my Singer machine and then hand quilt around the appliqued blocks and larger sections. Is this a no-no to use both machine and hand quilting on the same quilt?
I will take the quilt to my first book signing for my Bible storybook, The Creation, this Saturday (2 days away). If I have to carry it with pins in it I will, but would rather have the sashing stitched so I could remove the pins. But I don't want to ruin my chances to get awards on it later.
Janice Green
www.biblequilts.com
I will take the quilt to my first book signing for my Bible storybook, The Creation, this Saturday (2 days away). If I have to carry it with pins in it I will, but would rather have the sashing stitched so I could remove the pins. But I don't want to ruin my chances to get awards on it later.
Janice Green
www.biblequilts.com
My Creation Bible Quilt
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#3
Thank you for responding.
I wouldn't show it unfinished except for the fact that the quilt blocks are the illustrations for the book I will be selling. Quilting is an important counterpart to my line of storybooks. This is my first quilt and there simply isn't time to have it completed.
I wouldn't show it unfinished except for the fact that the quilt blocks are the illustrations for the book I will be selling. Quilting is an important counterpart to my line of storybooks. This is my first quilt and there simply isn't time to have it completed.
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many people---even award winning quilters use both techniques in their quilts- there is nothing wrong with doing both. the only thing it would effect in a show is you would not be able to enter it in a hand-quilted catagory since it would have machine quilting on it- it is ok however to enter it in a machine quilted catagory-even with the hand quilting on it.
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