April 05, 2008
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Debbbie Carmichael using an APQS Lenni quilting machine
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How to prepare your quilt for machine quilting
The better a quilt top is prepared before quilting, the better the finished result will be.
Your quilt should not be basted, pinned or tacked together.
Be sure all seams and stitches are secure.
If you have a pieced border or bias edges on the outside of your quilt, please stay-stitch 1/4” in from the edge.
Trim all loose threads, especially on the front of the quilt. They can get caught in the foot of the machine or, if they are stitched over they will be difficult to remove.
Dark threads may show through light fabric.
Iron your top well, with all seams pressed either to one side or open.
Iron the backing well, with seams pressed open! Please be sure to remove the selvage edges from any seams, after completing the seam(s).
Make sure that the quilt top, the backing and the batting are square and have straight edges.
If the quilt top or backing is directional, or you plan to hang the quilt, please indicate the top of the piece with a marked piece of paper, attached with a safety pin.
Backing and batting should be at least 4” larger than the quilt top on all sides. For example, if your quilt measures 60” x 80”, your backing should be at least 68” x 88”.
Quotes from "QUILTING Quotations" Celebrating An American Legacy compiled by Joyce S.Steward
It was not a woman's desire.... to be forgotten. And in one simple, unprententious way, she created a medium that would outlive even many of her husband's houses, barns and fences; she signed her name in friendship onto cloth and, in her own way, cried out, Remember me.
Linda Otto Lipsett
Remember Me
"We will make a quilt to help us always remember home," Anna's mother said."It will be like having the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night."
Patricia Polacco
The Keeping Quilt
I am not unknown. I learned to speak with needle and thread long before society finally "gave" me a voice - as if society can give anyone a voice: it can only take a voice away...The women in my family quilt.
Whitney Otto "Anna"
in "How to Make an American Quilt"
Inspirational Thoughts
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt
William Shakespear