Tonight involved finishing up an online class with a 9pm deadline. I totally finished everything and rewarded myself with a trip to Joann's to by the batting for the Star Wars Quilt! Joann's has Bamboo quilting batting in all of the bed sizes. I got home, blocked it out, realized i shouldn't have cut the backing last night :(, and got everything pinned together. This is my first quilt and i'm going with just asking people for advice here and there, NO internet tutorials. I really want this to have that hand made feel to it. So far so good! The left of the quilt is a bit wobbly...but i should be able to work that out in sewing.
Here are some pictures of the beginning of the tacking. Nope, i'm not tacking it in nearly enough places, but it's going to be purty! Forget functional! Well atleast not washable; the bamboo is extremely warm. I had it on my lap this evening and had to turn off the heater...
Here are some pictures of the beginning of the tacking. Nope, i'm not tacking it in nearly enough places, but it's going to be purty! Forget functional! Well atleast not washable; the bamboo is extremely warm. I had it on my lap this evening and had to turn off the heater...
3 comments:
A lot of people who machine quilt use safety pins rather than basting or tacking the quilt together, with good results. You can pull out the pins as you quilt, and of course, it's way less labor intensive. Do invest in non-corroding safety pins from the fabric store. (This doesn't work so well if you plan to hand quilt, for a bunch of reasons.)
And, oh yeah, I could have told you to leave the backing a few inches larger than the top. Oops. But don't worry, you'll be able to hide any shortfall in the back (beause quilting tends to shrink up the back more than the front) with a wider binding.
Lookin' good!
It just occurred to me that perhaps you are not actually quilting it (by machine or by hand) but just tacking it. Duh. Sorry for the superfluous post!
Thank you thank you thank you! The next quilt will be more intensive and i can use all the pointers i can get.
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