Sooo, how do you SITD on a longarm: block by block, Couple of blocks at a time, or do you stitch and then roll quilt to finish?
-- Niasha "What doesn't kill you, defines you."
rjwhite6 wrote:
>
> > I guess that real longarmers don't stitch in the ditch much because
> > a.) you don't need to stabilize the quilt as much since it is nice and
> > tight on the frame
> > and
> >
> > b.) It's soooo hard to hit the ditch at longarm speeds.
> >
> > Is this true?
>
> Well, I'm a real longarmer, and I SID *all* the time!
>
> But the majority of longarmers don't like SID because of reason #2. Me,
> I didn't know it was supposed to be hard when I started, so I just
> learned how to do it. The key is to have an extended base with a ruler
> and take your time. There's no law that says you can't turn the speed > down! LOL
>
> The quilt still needs stabilization on the frame if you're doing
> anything except an overall pattern. The reason is that as you quilt it
> pulls in the fabric, and things can get out of square. (We will NOT talk
> about how I know that! LOL) So it needs some kind of stabilization. My
> preference is SID (defines the block well, looks good, etc.), but
> because it's slower, it's more expensive, and not everyone wants to pay
> for it. So I've also got a lot of "faux" SID variations, and have even
> been known to stick in pins to stabilize.
>
> --
> Kathy Applebaum (Woodland, CA)
> Longarm Machine Quilting, Queen of Fabric Tramps
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