I have a king sized, 3 rail quilt frame. I love the look of it, I love the smell of it and it wraps fabric beautifully. I have finally moved it upstairs into my sewing room, fitted it all together again and basted Blue Quilt to it (again). I did this all before, lost the plot and have mostly quilted the thing on a 16" circular hoop. I'm trying again.
However.
No matter what I seem to do all the lines of quilting seem to be away from me, diagonally in the wrong direction or just awkward to get at. It's driving me nuts. I want to get this right. It cost a lot of money, therefore I must be doing something wrong.
I have tried rolling the fabric top to bottom and bottom to top, but it seems to make no difference, all the lines are any which way but a convenient one. I CAN quilt with my thumb etc., but when I look at books and so on, everyone seems to be quilting happily right to left and top to bottom.
Is there a knack I haven't got? Is there a blatently obvious flaw in my technique? Am I missing something here?
Or is my Mighty Wurlitzer out to get me!
Sorry, long rant, but it's bugging me, and I won't be beaten by a gadget!
Nel (Gadget Queen)