Quilting With Machines In the good old days, quilting sometimes takes months and month. Sometimes, several quilters work together to finish a quilt faster. Those were the days when quilters (mostly women) have all the time in the world. Today, it is already common for most quilters (including the traditionalists) to sometimes use the machines [...]
Hand Quilting Made Easy Now that quilting machines are widely available, hand quilting is often considered the last option. This is because hand quilting is associated with finger sore and pain, eats up a lot of time, and seems a laborious process. Yet, there are still a good number of quilters who devote themselves to [...]
Four Methods Of Basting A Quilt Although basting is the least favorite task of many quilters, it is an important part in the entire quilting process. It keeps the quilt sandwichtop, batting, and backing layerstogether, making sure they are properly aligned and do not slip apart during the actual quilting process. This in turn prevents [...]
Batting The Fabric Filling in Quilting After the quilt top had been finished, remove all the pins and other basting devices and iron out all the seams. It is now time for batting, one of the more important phases in quilting. Batting materials It is called by other names depending on the place where one [...]
