Finally Got Started Quilting

I did it! I have started quilting the sandwich. Thanks for all of your help. I went ahead and SITD first because I had moved all the safety pins off the seams for that technique. I only have the vertical part done and will finish the horizontal tomorrow.

Then hopefully will go to the grid. I think I will stick with the vertical and horizontal using masking tape as a guide.

The only problem I had (other than looking like I was drunk and IN a ditch with my seamlines) was several times the top thread would go through to the backing. I am using cotton on the front and fleece on the back and I have pinned the quilt to death so I hope it doesn't pucker. The top thread is brown and the bobbin thread is turquoise. Every once in awhile I would hear a click in the bobbin and a stitch would get stuck and I would manually turn the sewing machine wheel. When I finished (and almost always near the end of the row) there would be a few spots with tangled brown on the turquoise backing. The first row I tore out. The others I trimmed up, brushed the fleece over a little and said "FORGET IT". If I continue doing this, the baby will be a year old before I get done.

But I am afraid it will make a mess on my binding and I will have to tear it out because it will show so badly. I have fooled around with the tension and it sews fine most of the time. Just about once or twice on every vertical line. My machine is a Singer 9410 - school model and is not very new but doesn't have much mileage on it. I really don't know.

I researched it a little on the internet and it said it could be the tension, material, needle, climate, dust, good grief!

Again, thanks for all of your help. You are wonderful. I will post a pic when I get done of my first!

Helen

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hmharris
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Well done, Helen.

We all have a 'tangly' day once in a while! . In message , hmharris writes

Reply to
Patti

Helen,

I've only once done a quilt with fleece on the back, but I seem to remember that I had issues with fluff.

So, clean out your machine well (particularly the bobbin area), take of the throat plate (is that what's it's called) and clean from that direction too.

Also, you might try changing the needle - they do get worn :-)

If it is mostly towards the end of a line of quilting, think about whether you do something different there: go faster/slower, pull on the quilt more or less etc.

But, yes, the fleece will fluff over some things. As long as it seems solid and baby won't get caught in it, don't worry too much.

Hanne in London

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Hanne Gottliebsen

Well done! Nothing ever gets finished if you don't start :-)

You are sewing a woven fabric together with a knit fabric (fleece), so I'd guess you have some needle issues. Try a new needle, try some different needles. Sometimes a microtex needle works well. Roberta in D

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Reply to
Roberta Zollner

I think many of us -- if not all -- have had frustrating times with that tangle on the bottom. It's enough to drive you crazy, isn't it? I've been known to carefully pick out the tangle and leave the stitching, but I've never used fleece, so I couldn't camouflage it that way. ;)

As for looking drunk, my own opinion is that it's far more difficult to stitch in the ditch and do straight lines than it is to do something more freeform. It's also less fun.

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Sandy

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