WOW 7th March 2012

Sandwiched tagged & ready for quilting

Another UFO top quilt top finished plus tag sandwiching ready to start machine quilting?????? I bless the day hubby suggested I tag my quilts and bought me one last year. Yeterday I had this quilt which is 2 metres square sandwiched in about 4 hrs fold up and stored for quilting. Normal it would of taken me 2 full days basting it by thread. I also have worked how to do it on my dinning table which has a glass top and 2 meters long by 1 meter wide instead of on the floor!!!!!, I have bought 2 old irioning bords from Opp SHops and set these either side of the table this gives me the added meter down the sides; I spread the backing fabric and clip this around the table and the ironing bords with LARGE paper clips, then lay the batting and finally the quilt, make sure there are no wrinkles and starting tagging every 3inchs apart working from the centre out, when I have completed all the area where the glass table is I slide the quilt across and do one side then after doing that slide it across to the other side and I’m finished. When using the gun I push the needle through on an angle and it slides across the glass rather than straight down in to the glass. How ever I have pinned the edges around the quilt for extra suppot as I’m sure it is to heavy just for the mini tags there. I’m going to try machine quilting it. I think it lends it self to machine quilting as I will do in the ditch then wash it as my wee dog chewed a gecko up in to 10 pieces right in the middle of it when it was laying on the floor while I was finishing off the last row!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have a Japanese Tatami room which is separate from the rest of the house off the veranda and the tatami mats are great for working on quilts I’m machine sewing as it’s next to where I have my sewing area set up on the veranda out side.