Last week I finished quilting Lesley’s lovely linen and cotton quilt
top which she’d entrusted to me.
She’d decided on all-over feather meander, which I love quilting – you need to keep your wits about you though, so you don’t end up quilting yourself into a corner!
Lesley chose a thread to match the plain linen fabric. I haven’t quilted any linen before, and I did really like the effect. Maybe I’ll be making a linen quilt in the future?
Just after I’d taken the quilt off the frame I dropped a bobbin on the
floor behind the quilt frame, and as I was scrabbling around trying to find it,
I noticed the effect of the light from the window coming through the needle
holes on the quilt. You can see the seam allowances of the quilt top too, if you look
carefully - hold a quilt top up to the light and the seam allowances are
like the leading in a stained glass window. (Don’t be alarmed –
the holes disappear! Longarm machines use
fairly sturdy needles, so they withstand the hammering they get in an
industrial machine. Immediately after
you’ve quilted a top you can see the holes when you hold a quilt up to the
light, but they close up soon afterwards!)
See – no holes to be seen!
lovely!
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