Re:My Second Project...first quilt

• Re:My Second Project...first quilt - 2007-07-27 06:19:47-04
  Maws,
  I am not sure this will apply, but I personally have found that I get the stretching and puckers if I have the quilt pulling itself from the machine. This is a large quilt so what I do is try to find way to support the weight of it. Sometimes I throw it over my shoulder and I always try to have enough table behind the machine to catch it. I also use the roll method for the quilt and use some sort of clips to hold it together. in the roll. It makes it easier to handle the bulk. I hope I am making myself clear it is hard to explain without a picture. What it looks like while I am quilting is a couple of bolsters held together with a small strip of quilt. That small strip is the part I am quilting on. I hope that will help. I know your younguns will love the quilts mom is making for them. I have made one for three of my five. Still have to make two more and then start on the grandchildren and the spouses. I am hoping for Christmas in quilts this year. I would like to make the rest of them all this year. It is a big idea, I just hope I can do it. If my classes I am teaching don't get in the way maybe I can do it.
  Good luck and don't forget to show us the next one.