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House quilt - a question

I'm about half way through piecing my quilt top. This will leave me about 1 month before it needs to be warming my relatives. So, I am thinking about the quilting. I will be using a fairly low loft wool/poly batting.

Can you more experienced ppls tell me if I can quilt it myself in that time? I have just a domestic standard Brother machine. I was going to quilt in the ditch on the sashing etc for each block, and for the light coloured squares in the centre ( 5" and ~6" respectively) use a single motif stencil (not yet decided on what).Perhaps a grape vine stencil for the border.

I'm not sure if the machine can handle what will be an 90" suqare quilt. Could I do some by hand and some by mchine? I have a walking foot. I do a lot of embroidery/cross stich/tapestry/hand needlework and have done since I was 15. What do you think?

Thanks for your thoughts,

Fay

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Fey
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Yes, you can, of course, mix hand and machine quilting, especially if the machine will be in the ditch and so not terribly noticeable. However, if you wanted to do your individual motif by machine, may I suggest you cut out a pattern from something like tissue paper (or one of the specialist papers if you have them), pin is securely to the fabric and sew through the paper. You can use your walking foot if the design isn't too complex. Sorry I don't know your machine, so I can't comment; but, in general, domestic machines would be able to handle a quilt of that size. . In message , Fey writes

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Patti

The more handwork you do, the more time it will take. However, there is no rule against combining machine with hand quilting. I'd go ahead and machine quilt the in the ditch straight lines, assuming you can fit it through the machine arm. I'd also hand quilt the design in each block as that's easier to do by hand. The borders you can decide on after- depending on how much time you have.

-georg

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Georg

As others have said, Fay, you *can* combine hand and machine quilting. :) Another point to consider is that you can do the machine quilting in sections to minimize the bulk in the machine. Some people put batting in only the center 1/3 section of the sandwich, quilt that, and then put batting in one of the outer 1/3 sections to quilt. Then do the last outer 1/3 with batting and quilt. It keeps the amount of fabric and batting under the machine down to a more manageable size. HTH.

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Sandy Foster

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