Help ! I am making a mat (quilt) to place on the floor for a baby to sit on. I am using a single panel front & back and thick wading in between. Can anyone give me advice on the best may to stitch it together - I've made a few in the past and I can never make them without the material bunching? Previously I hand baste the materials together before machine sewing the edges but perhaps my technique wasn't right. Is machine basting the answer? Help!
Baste it together in regular intervals...whether you use pins, hand basting or spray basting doesn't matter. Then quilt it. Use something simple like a basic grid pattern across the whole thing.
Now, to finish the edges, are you going to bind them or are you sewing this thing together in such a way that you can birth it (stack wadding, back panel face up then top panel face down, sew around edges and turn inside out)? If you are doing the birthing method, do that first and then do the quilting. If you are adding binding afterwards, do the quilting first.
I hope I explained all of that well enough. I am sure that others will have more tips that I may have forgotten - so keep watching this space for more information!
Dannielle
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Don't bind the edges until you're done quilting it. Baste or pin the "sandwich" first. To quilt, start in the middle and work out toward the sides. When you're done, trim the sides even, then put your binding on.
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