Sewing Machine for Quilting: Throat Space and Feed
Piecing a quilt top is the easy part. Almost any machine that sews a straight line will join squares, and …
Quilting
Throat space, walking feet, free motion setup and quilting thread. What a domestic machine handles and where a long arm starts.
Quilting Thread: Weight That Sinks or Shows
Thread is the one quilting decision that changes how the finished quilt looks from across the room. Piecing thread is …
Quilting Notions: What a First Quilt Needs
Quilting has a longer shopping list than most sewing, and a good half of it is optional. Walk into a …
Quilting for Beginners: A First Quilt, No Long Arm
A quilt is three things stacked and stitched together: a pieced top, a layer of batting in the middle, and …
Quilting Feet: Walking, Darning and Quarter Inch
Three presser feet do almost everything a quilt needs, and the accessory box that came with your machine probably contains …
Quilting and Sewing Combo Machines: One or Two
Search for a quilting machine and most of what comes back is a sewing machine with the word quilting added …
Quilting a King Size Quilt on a Domestic Machine
A king size quilt on a domestic machine is not a technique problem. It is a logistics problem. The stitching …
Mid Arm or Long Arm: Throat Space You Will Use
Mid arm and long arm sound like two rungs on the same ladder, and in one narrow sense they are. …
Long Arm Quilting Machine: What the Frame Demands
Every quilter who has wrestled a queen sized quilt through a domestic machine has looked up a long arm afterward. …
Free Motion Quilting: Setting Up Your Machine
Free motion quilting looks like a skill problem and is mostly a setup problem. Almost every complaint that sends someone …