It’s definitely a long arm day! My arms are so tired and feel like weights—why? Because my friend and I were doing our long arm machine quilting!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Longarm quilting is the process by which a longarm sewing machine is used to sew together a quilt top, quilt batting and quilt backing into a finished quilt. The longarm sewing machine frame typically ranges from 10 feet (about 3 metres) to 14 feet (about 4.25 metres) in length.
What if you take this lovely fabric and place it where most people will not see it?
That's what we call "backing"!
and we use this fabric to 'back' our quilt before it goes on the long arm--
it's laid down first--then comes the batting--we prefer 80 cotton/20 poly.
Next comes our quilt top--one that we've been working on for months--block of the month!One block to construct each month--slow and easy it goes!
Machine is making perfect stitches and off we go with our 'free' motion quilting!
The corner design fit just perfectly!
And the beauty is off the machine, ready to be trimmed and bound. This quilt will be bound with a nice yellow--that will set off the aqua.
Sorry to say--this isn't my creation--but my friend Cheryl has made another great cover for her bed.
Here is my finished (well, almost finished) quilt. This was a year long study with rows--sponsored by Tuning My Heart--I wrote about this quilt top several blogs ago--I just didn't need that last row of baskets--did I? Anyway, drop by Debra's blog and take a peek of her wonderful creations.
My quilting consist of snails, stars, and hearts--I'm not a whiz at this free motion but learning more as I go along!
Next to the trimming and binding--will most likely look though my binding box
to see what I can sew together for this hodge podge colorful quilt. That is one way I use up bits and pieces of leftover binding.
Happy stitching y'all!
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