I'm having fun!

You're an inspiration to me! I keep sending my quilts out, even the baby ones. I'm definitely going to try this technique. I've had the powder stuff and paper for ages, but have been too chicken to try it. Now I will. Thanks. Barb from S. Florida

I hope it works for you, Barb. I don't do unmarked free motion very well....I tend to panic. This was not very stressful and I could concentrate more on my speed and stitch length instead of where I was going to go next. I recommend it! Especially for baby quilts...that's a good way to practice.

Hey, Kathyl, GOOD job! It sounds like your pre-quilting organization and preparation really paid off in making it an enjoyable experience. And thanks for including all the steps. I'm sure a lot of our quilters here will appreciate it. (I fly by the seat of my pants for mq'ing! No marking....) Can't hardly wait to see your photos. ;-)

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Okay, Barb and Kathyl, maybe I'll get up enough nerve to try some machine quilting, too. Our quilt makes quilts for CASA (which is court appointed special advocate) for kids taken from their homes and I usually send them out to be quilted but I'm going to get brave and do some of them myself!!

Great Donna! Give it a try! I have traced on the Golden Threads paper in the past and stitched through it as some instructions say to do. I had a heck of a time getting all the little tiddly bits of paper out from under the stitches. I'm not an even stitcher (no BSR!) so some of my stitches are teeny and the paper is REALLY difficult to get out from those. Plus stitching on the paper makes it harder to control the needle...it seems slippery and you can't see your stitches well enough to get a feel for your foot and hand speed to make them consistent. So using the Pounce with the perforated paper pattern was the answer to some of the previous drawbacks. And the process of perforating the pattern with the unthreaded needle helped to set the pattern design into memory.

Good for you, Kathyl! You do such beautiful work that I'm glad you have found a way of being happier with your quilting. The leaf quilt is so pretty. I am looking forward to seeing its picture.

Very kind of you to set out all the steps to doing this procedure.

I love Golden Threads paper - I just quilt through the paper! but it might be easier to do it this way and not risk the paper getting out of position under the machine. . In message , KJ writes

Okay, Pat on your Hill, you can quilt thru Golden Threads paper and don't have tiddly bits like Kathyl does. You can quilt thru Press & Seal without having tiddly bits like I do. What is your tiddly bits secret??? Obviously you know something Kathyl and I don't know... and we wanna know that secret! VBG

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Yeah....inquiring minds want to know! :-)

Tiddly bits (great technical term!) tend to develop when your quilt lines re-trace each other, which happens sometimes when we want to avoid cutting the thread. Or when the design has some very sharp angles so the stitches are almost on top of each other. At least that's my experience. Just MQ'd through some Press & Seal today, a continuous line design that had no backtracking, and it came off with no problem. Roberta in D

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Ah well, I only quilt motifs like that, and I have so far not had any tight corners! I've had a few ordinary 45° corners, or perhaps 30°, but nothing really tight. I don't use either of them for free-motion. I don't know if you have noticed with Press 'n' Seal, that there is a definite 'grain' to it. If you pull in the right direction, you can get loads of it off in one go. I always start the removal with a scissors' nick and pull of as much as I can without straining, regardless of where it is coming off from - I don't try to follow the quilting lines at this first stage. Then I'll take the rest off with the help of the scissors or a stitch-ripper hook (I use mine a lot!), following the stitching line. Sometimes there are little bits under stitches, but a quick pull with the tweezers and all that comes off. Mind you, sometimes I see little bits months later >g< when I'd have sworn I'd got every bit! HTH . In message , Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes

I did have my Bernina fitted with the BSR but haven't gotten up the nerve to use it yet!! Maybe this is the time.

Oh yes! Try it. Don't let a BSR go to waste!

Good for you, Kathyl! :) I'm anxious to see the finished photo!