Continuing my series of posts about regular get togethers with neighborhood quilters J and D. The other posts about our get togethers can be found in my new blog Category “Quilters’ Playdate“. This post is also a follow to my post Quilt Top Finished .
We met last Friday and this time it was All About Me! Okay, it was about my quilt and getting it quilted.
On the way over my neighbor’s house I got my (finally) completed quilt top and backing ready for the long journey of a couple street blocks down the road (ha!):
I got to help J load it on her longarm quilting machine (though she is doing most the work in this photo below…):
It was so exciting to be involved with all the steps on getting my quilt loaded and watching J set up the preprogrammed quilting pattern we had selected together:
Because the quilt top was denim with applique on top of it (making it rather thick), we had to monitor the progression of the longarm machine quilting so the industrial needle did not get stuck on any edge or accidentally lift/rip and edge. J set me to work monitoring the quilting while she worked on other projects with D:
It was scary and exciting at the same time. I had to be careful not to let the industrial needle quilt through my hand (that would be a serious “ouch” and J reported to us she’d had that happen in the past).
While I was there a couple hours, the longarm machine made great progress (and J had to keep adjusting the roller to move the quilt down sections):
Next post I will share the quilted quilt!
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Thanks for stopping by!
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I didn’t just stop by I started following you 😁
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More complicated than I thought. Wow, what a beautiful quilt this will be.
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Thank you and it’s more complicated than I thought and I’ve had quilts professionally long arm quilted for years! Getting to see what happens behind the scenes was eye opening 🙂
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It’s so exciting to be at this step. Cool that you got to participate in the process.
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Thanks so much and Kate of TallTales inspired me to start blogging about an ongoing scrap quilt on the monthly ScrapHappy posts, that I was struggling to finish. It got me working on it seriously. I just realized why I suddenly started putting full effort into it! I’ll have to recognize her inspiration in the next post about this quilt (when it is all faced and hung!) 🙂
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An exciting day
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It was, thanks for checking my post out 🙂
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The quilt looks nice, but to an outsider, the process seems complicated.
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Thanks and I feel the same about your beautiful photography – I wouldn’t know where to begin – ha!
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