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In reply to the discussion: Anybody here do hand quilting? [View all]

dem in texas

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6. Hand quilting
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 10:44 PM
Apr 2013

Every once in a while, I will hand quilt. It is a big project to take on a quilt. I made a quilt for my granddaughter last year and when I finished the top, I decided to hand quilt it. I worked on it for about 3 months. Just a simple outline and straight stitching. It made the quilt nice, it had a better feel than the machine quilted ones, but as your posters are saying, it is so easy to have a the top machine quilted, that that is really the way to go.

Quilters used to look down on machine quilting, but if you go to the big quilt shows, most of the quilts are now machine quilted and look very nice.

I have a baby quilt my sister made and I am getting ready to hand quilt it for her. We trade work, it is hard for me to cut fabric, so she cuts the quilt pieces out for me and I do some of the sewing for her.

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