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I am home again from my nice long quilting vacation! It was great!
More tips for Hand Quilting:
Position a lamp on your left side if you are right-handed and on your right if you are left-handed. Good light really helps!
If you are working on an heirloom project, you may want to wrap your wood hoop with muslin so the fabric won’t be stained.
If you don’t have a half hoop, pin a towel to the edge of your quilt to catch the whole thing in the hoop.
If you are a beginning quilter, use print fabrics on the front and back to camouflage imperfect stitches.
Quilting stitches made on the bias of the fabric always look nicer than those on the grain.
Thread ALL your needles at once and then quilt until you are out of threaded needles. Try to do your needle threading in daylight hours!
When quilting a grid, start several lines of stitching and leave dangling threads, ready to pick up when you have moved the hoop.
You can use a long thread and run it through halfway. Then quilt off both ends! Fewer knots!
Throw out imperfect needles – or those that develop burrs or bend.
Use a similar amount of quilting on all areas of the quilt.
Experienced quilters usually use shorter needles (10-12)
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