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quilting: I need to know how do you do your quilting, if your front is blocks that are embroidered, how do you do the back?
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Hi "Lexusblu",
Personally I do all my machine embroidery first on each square. I then sew all the blocks together with a sashing between in rows - it just gives a better look. Then when the whole quilt is finished I put the top piece over some batting (I use an Australian wool one) then add the backing fabric.
I then send it off to a professional quilter and she does an all over quilting design.
Now, if I was going to do it myself I would use the "Quilt-as-you-go" method. See attached website URL
from Secrets of Embroidery - there are several others too. Have a look at the Internet and just choose the one you like the best.
If you want the backing fabric quilted you could do it separately - or just put the whole three pieces together and quilt each section starting from the middle of the quilt and work your way to the outside. It's very frustrating and you have an enormous amount of material rolled up under your sewing machine.
As I said previously I personally don't actually do the quilting as I don't want to put that much stress on my sewing machine. That's what the professional long arm quilting machines are for!
Good luck - I am sure there will be other people on here who will give you their ideas too.
Love and blessings Chris
Personally I do all my machine embroidery first on each square. I then sew all the blocks together with a sashing between in rows - it just gives a better look. Then when the whole quilt is finished I put the top piece over some batting (I use an Australian wool one) then add the backing fabric.
I then send it off to a professional quilter and she does an all over quilting design.
Now, if I was going to do it myself I would use the "Quilt-as-you-go" method. See attached website URL
from Secrets of Embroidery - there are several others too. Have a look at the Internet and just choose the one you like the best.
If you want the backing fabric quilted you could do it separately - or just put the whole three pieces together and quilt each section starting from the middle of the quilt and work your way to the outside. It's very frustrating and you have an enormous amount of material rolled up under your sewing machine.
As I said previously I personally don't actually do the quilting as I don't want to put that much stress on my sewing machine. That's what the professional long arm quilting machines are for!
Good luck - I am sure there will be other people on here who will give you their ideas too.
Love and blessings Chris
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Thank you for this information. I think this will be helpful to a lot of people as well as Lexusblu.
So do you do the quilting over the embroidered pieces?
No, I wouldn't quilt over the designs themselves. I would quilt "in the ditch", or if using an overall stipple, go around the designs. Hugs, Marji
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bikermomfl
21 Sep 2009
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I usually stipple quilt the whole thing on my quilt frame. Top, batting and backing all at one time. Before I got my frame I would lay it out on the bed, backing face down, then batting, then the quilt face up and pin it smooth with my quilting safety pins (they're curved) then drop the feed dogs on my machine and stipple or outline quilt my quilts. There are lots of stencils and ideas for quilting. One neat thing I was told that when it come to quilting do it your way because there really is no wrong way! I love that part, have fun and let us see the finished project :-)
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I will try it this way. One more question: Once you have stippled and quilted everything together, do you then put an edging over the raw edges?
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nonmusicmom
21 Sep 2009
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I do my blocks withthe embroidery first and the piece then together then quilt if its a small quilt that I can handle on my machine. If its large I do the quilt as you go method because it's eassier to handle.