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My Top Ten Quilting Tips
So many people have written asking how I manage to get a quilt
made a week. So here's my top ten hints on how I get quilts done!
1. I have a room just for sewing, right next to the kitchen and
away from the bedrooms. I can dash in there and sew a few seams
whenever I find (literally) a minute. I bound a quilt during the
commercials on a movie on Sunday night - the TV was on in the
kitchen, so I knew when to go back.
2. Put your sewing pressing on the ironing board at the end of
each sewing session, alongside your clothes ironing. When you
iron some clothes, get your sewing pressing done too.
3. Put a small table next to your favourite comfortable chair
and ALWAYS have some hand-sewing on it. So if you sit down for
even a few minutes you can get a little hand-sewing done without
having to hunt for something to do first.
4. Make up an attractive bag with a full sewing kit and a small
hand-sewn project in it. This is your "take anywhere" project,
and you pick it up whenever you think there is any possibility
that you could be stuck somewhere and can get some hand-sewing
done. I keep mine on my small table next to my chair, so that I
only have one hand-sewing project to worry about at a time.
5. Keep all your sewing tools (scissors, rotary cutter, etc) in
a central place like a basket (I use a big pencil case). And
keep this basket next to you as you sew so that you always put
the tools back in it. That way you will never have to waste time
searching for tools. Also, you can grab this quickly as you rush
out the door late for a class! Also, I keep my bobbins in three
separate bobbin cases - marked "polyester", "cotton" and
"quilting". The plastic bobbins have "p", "c" or "q" written on
them too, so I always know what I have in my hand.
6. Use zip-lock bags to store all the bits and pieces of each
project. Even if you have to pack it all away at the end of the
day, you won't waste time searching for anything. If you are
using any special threads, trims, etc, put these in the zip lock
bag too.
7. Binding can be almost completely sewn on by machine (sew on
the front as normal, fold it to the back so that the binding
overlaps the first seam by about a quarter of an inch, pin
well,
then ditch-stitch from the front). It doesn't give as neat a
finish as hand-sewing, and you might have to finish off the
corners by hand, but it is quick.
8. When you buy the fabric for the quilt top, or when you start
a project from stash fabrics, buy or set aside the fabric for
the backing and the batting as well. Store these with the top
while it is in progress. When the top is finished, the next step
- without stopping for breath! - is to baste the quilt and then
start quilting. If you pack the top away because you have to go
out and get batting and backing you might never get back to it.
A quilt is not a quilt until it is a quilt - it is a quilt top
and, unless you want to use it for a tablecloth, it is not
finished!
9. Keep your tools in good condition. When you put a new blade
in your rotary cutter, buy the next one. Nothing slows you down
like a blunt cutter (two cuts instead of one). Have your
scissors sharpened regularly. Keep your different types of pins
in different containers so you don't have to hunt through one
big pin tin for the right sort of pin. Change your sewing
machine needles regularly (I use a new piecing needle and a new
quilting needle for every second quilt). Clean the fluff out of
your sewing machine after every quilt.
10. Look after your patterns. The small zip-lock bag most
patterns come in are seldom large enough to keep it all in after
you have opened it up and pored over it, and never big enough to
hold all the templates and little scraps of paper you add when
it is an applique pattern. Put the pattern in a large zip-lock
bag and keep it all together, rather than trying to squeeze it
all back in the original bag (trust me - it's hard enough for me
to fit my paper-hungry patterns in the original bag before you
buy it, let alone after you have opened it up! ). If you
can't fit all the bits and pieces in the bag you might leave
some out and then that wastes time in looking for them later.
Christine Abela Gecko Gully quilts and socks:
http://www.geckogully.com Web site development:
http://www.geckogully.com/websites Once-A-Month Cooking:
http://www.geckogully.com/oamc Gifts:
http://www.geckogully.com/gifts
About the author:
Learn how I make a quilt a week!
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