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Basting a quilt
On Dec 3, 10:46*pm, Hanne in DK wrote:
Den 03-12-2011 23:55, Rose in CA skrev: My absolute, hands down, NON favorite part of our favorite activity is basting. I will finish a top and leave it for years and years, just because I HATE to get down on the kitchen floor and stick stupid safety pins all over the quilt and then fasten them and then unfasten them again when I want to quilt. Yuck! I don't know who posted a link to these videos; don't remember if it was here or over on FaceBook. Whoever it was, thank you, thank you, thank you! I just basted a 65" x 65" quilt in about 2 hours -- on the dining room table -- no sore knees, no sore fingers, no sore back. part 1 --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwNylePFAA part 2 --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_EjBGz5vGQ Bye now. I am off to rummage in the sewing room closet to pull out all those poor languishing UFOs. Yahoo! Rose in CA I forgot about this! Thanks! But how does it work if the quilt is wider than your table is long? Won't the ends just flop around and pull the backing/top of the board? Hanne in DK Hanne, As long as the *boards* are longer than the quilt is wide, it doesn't matter. The one I just finished basting was about 6 inches too long for my table but because the fabric was all wound up on the boards, I just shifted it this way and that to baste the last bits. Rose in CA |
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Basting a quilt
I used 2 boards of Douglas Fir, 3" x 2" x 6'. They are heavy enough to
really hold the fabrics in place and the thickness helps keep the longer lengt from warping. The ones I found also have slightly rounded edges and are very smooth so don't need finishing. Basting with needle and thread, using the method in her video, actually goes faster than pinning. And, BTW, I feel the same way about starch. Don't like it, don't use it, never will. The whole quilt and board package moved nice and smoothly without needing starch. I did press as many wrinkles out of the back as I could, of course. On Dec 3, 4:58*pm, Mary wrote: Excellent videos! *However, I NEVER starch backing, or any part of a quilt, for that matter. *I do my stitching by hand, and find that sizing and starch make it very uncomfortable -- and *pre-wash all fabrics just to get that stuff GONE! I always baste, and do so rather closely, but stay off the floor, which is a royal pain in the you-know-what. *So, for any quilt larger than a lap quilt I pick up the phone and call my local church to find out when it would be convenient for me to come in and use the huge tables they have in one of the activity rooms. *They're very nice about it, and will even have the custodian shove them together for me, so I have a large, smooth, raised surface to use. *Another benefit of doing my sandwich-assembly and basting at the church is that I don't have a cat or a dog "helping" me. |
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Den 05-12-2011 22:31, Rose in CA skrev:
On Dec 3, 10:46 pm, Hanne in wrote: Den 03-12-2011 23:55, Rose in CA skrev: My absolute, hands down, NON favorite part of our favorite activity is basting. I will finish a top and leave it for years and years, just because I HATE to get down on the kitchen floor and stick stupid safety pins all over the quilt and then fasten them and then unfasten them again when I want to quilt. Yuck! I don't know who posted a link to these videos; don't remember if it was here or over on FaceBook. Whoever it was, thank you, thank you, thank you! I just basted a 65" x 65" quilt in about 2 hours -- on the dining room table -- no sore knees, no sore fingers, no sore back. part 1 --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwNylePFAA part 2 --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_EjBGz5vGQ Bye now. I am off to rummage in the sewing room closet to pull out all those poor languishing UFOs. Yahoo! Rose in CA I forgot about this! Thanks! But how does it work if the quilt is wider than your table is long? Won't the ends just flop around and pull the backing/top of the board? Hanne in DK Hanne, As long as the *boards* are longer than the quilt is wide, it doesn't matter. The one I just finished basting was about 6 inches too long for my table but because the fabric was all wound up on the boards, I just shifted it this way and that to baste the last bits. Rose in CA But what if it is more like 40" wider than your table? Hanne in DK - in a "but" mood, apparently... |
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On Dec 5, 2:43*pm, Hanne in DK wrote:
Den 05-12-2011 22:31, Rose in CA skrev: On Dec 3, 10:46 pm, Hanne in *wrote: Den 03-12-2011 23:55, Rose in CA skrev: My absolute, hands down, NON favorite part of our favorite activity is basting. I will finish a top and leave it for years and years, just because I HATE to get down on the kitchen floor and stick stupid safety pins all over the quilt and then fasten them and then unfasten them again when I want to quilt. Yuck! I don't know who posted a link to these videos; don't remember if it was here or over on FaceBook. Whoever it was, thank you, thank you, thank you! I just basted a 65" x 65" quilt in about 2 hours -- on the dining room table -- no sore knees, no sore fingers, no sore back. part 1 --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwNylePFAA part 2 --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_EjBGz5vGQ Bye now. I am off to rummage in the sewing room closet to pull out all those poor languishing UFOs. Yahoo! Rose in CA I forgot about this! Thanks! But how does it work if the quilt is wider than your table is long? Won't the ends just flop around and pull the backing/top of the board? Hanne in DK Hanne, As long as the *boards* are longer than the quilt is wide, it doesn't matter. The one I just finished basting was about 6 inches too long for my table but because the fabric was all wound up on the boards, I just shifted it this way and that to baste the last bits. Rose in CA But what if it is more like 40" wider than your table? Hanne in DK - in a "but" mood, apparently... um. Buy a new table? Rose in CA - in a "buy" mood, aspparently ;-) |
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Den 06-12-2011 01:08, Rose in CA skrev:
On Dec 5, 2:43 pm, Hanne in wrote: Den 05-12-2011 22:31, Rose in CA skrev: On Dec 3, 10:46 pm, Hanne in wrote: Den 03-12-2011 23:55, Rose in CA skrev: My absolute, hands down, NON favorite part of our favorite activity is basting. I will finish a top and leave it for years and years, just because I HATE to get down on the kitchen floor and stick stupid safety pins all over the quilt and then fasten them and then unfasten them again when I want to quilt. Yuck! I don't know who posted a link to these videos; don't remember if it was here or over on FaceBook. Whoever it was, thank you, thank you, thank you! I just basted a 65" x 65" quilt in about 2 hours -- on the dining room table -- no sore knees, no sore fingers, no sore back. part 1 --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwNylePFAA part 2 --http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_EjBGz5vGQ Bye now. I am off to rummage in the sewing room closet to pull out all those poor languishing UFOs. Yahoo! Rose in CA I forgot about this! Thanks! But how does it work if the quilt is wider than your table is long? Won't the ends just flop around and pull the backing/top of the board? Hanne in DK Hanne, As long as the *boards* are longer than the quilt is wide, it doesn't matter. The one I just finished basting was about 6 inches too long for my table but because the fabric was all wound up on the boards, I just shifted it this way and that to baste the last bits. Rose in CA But what if it is more like 40" wider than your table? Hanne in DK - in a "but" mood, apparently... um. Buy a new table? Rose in CA - in a "buy" mood, aspparently ;-) :-) Hanne in DK |
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