![]() You should start with 100% cotton, I have used Aurifil, Star, and Coats to great success but the key is the 100% cotton. I have spoken to quilters that claim their machine is a thread snob and will only allow a certain brand or cotton vs. Aurifil is an amazing product, but it’s not the only option out there. Every quilter will tell you Aurifil or Superior is the way to go, and they are not wrong. Make sure you use a quality thread made from 100% cotton. Thread Quality is Everything!Ĭotton Thread is your friend. I know this sounds like a throwaway tip, but we are all guilty of allowing so much lint to gather under our bobbin case it becomes felt. Piecing a quilt equals lint, and lint will cause several issues that will drive you crazy. I am not saying have it serviced, I am saying make sure you get all of the lint out from the bobbin case and dust the whole machine. Is your machine clean?īefore you put your free motion foot on, clean your machine. If you do all five of these tips before you sit down to free motion quilt, your thread will not break (that much) and you will reduce the time and frustration on finishing your quilt. But what if I told you that it’s not your quilts fault, and there are 5 simple tricks you should try before putting your quilt in timeout. This is enough to turn your quilt into a UFO, we have all put our projects in time out until they can behave. Truly, you just got done basting your quilt, you are ready to sit down and make major progress and every few minutes your thread breaks. I've linked up to Tips and Tutorials Festival.There are very few things more frustrating in quilting than your thread breaking while quilting. *I quilt with Quilter's Dream 100% cotton batting and love the crinkled look once it's washed. I'm curious, does anyone use a Fabric Glide? If so, how do you like it? My favorite tools for free motion quilting on a domestic sewing machine are Machingers Gloves and a Supreme Slider (also in queen size). That said, once the quilt is washed* those little accidental wiggles will be harder to see. Even if you only make a slight intentional turn in your line it will look better than an accidental wiggle. If you stop in the middle of a straight line it's hard to continue in exactly the same angle you were going. My other advice when you start stitching this one is to try to only stop at a corner. If you're new to free motion quilting, or just trying a new motif, practicing by drawing on paper is a great way to build muscle memory and to practice how best to move across the space. Probably nobody will ever notice, and if they do, that's fine. I absolutely have a couple accidental quadrilaterals quilted into the baby quilt I just finished quilting. And if you accidentally make a quadrilateral instead of a triangle, no big deal! My quadrilateral in the upper left probably stands out to you, but this is black on white (your thread choice probably blends better than this!) and it's a pretty small section we're looking at. If you paint yourself into a corner, this motif is pretty forgiving if you have to cross over a line to get out of a tight space. ![]() If you notice that you accidentally make a giant (compared to your others) triangle, just work in some more of the large size triangles around the quilt. ![]() Your triangles don't have to all be the same size or shape. The most important part when quilting an all over motif is that you have a similar density of quilting across the entire space. The design is similar to an all over loop motif, but instead of curves this motif uses all straight lines. I chose an all over motif, because it's fast and I love that there aren't many threads to bury when I'm done. The quilt I'm working on this weekend is one that I can't share, but I can show you how I'm quilting it.
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