How to Baste Your Quilt - Quilting Basics Tutorial #5 with Leah Day
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Learn how to baste your quilt easily in this Quilting Basics Tutorial with Leah Day. Find the quilt pattern for this block here: leahday.com/pr...
Each month Leah will release a new block pattern for you to follow along piecing and quilting. The patterns include both piecing AND machine quilting designs and templates for you to use to mark your quilt blocks. You'll also find new quilting video tutorials to guide you every step of the way.
At the end of the year we'll trim down our blocks and bind them together to create a beautiful Flower Festival quilt! This Quilt-as-you-Go technique is perfect for beginner level quilters with small home sewing machines.
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Incredible!!
You are very talented.
Thank you Amina!
Leah Day , you are welcome.
Leah, I feel really uncomfortable saying this, but in a prior tutorial about matching seams you said that it takes years to perfect which might be discouraging to those beginners who have caught the quilting bug including me. However, I have been watching your series and am learning a lot. Thank you very much for listening!❤️
I understand your point Holly, and I do try to be encouraging in all my videos. I think my point was to not obsess too much about your first quilt, or even your first 100 quilts. If you keep ripping out that one troublesome seam, you'll never finish that first quilt, you'll never move on and keep building skills.
And also - I'm still learning and growing with this craft even after years and years of quilting. I don't think it's discouraging to say it takes years because it takes years to truly master anything! Building the skill into your hands, just how you handle fabric, hold the quilt, run your machine - there's a lot of little things in there that are subtle and easy to take for granted, but make a huge difference and they can only be learned through lots and lots of projects.
Hi Leah, love all your videos and have learned a lot from you. I had a couple of questions, one, have you used golden threads quilt paper which would be similar to your freezer paper method but I was thinking for the whole pattern? And couldn't you use the water soluble in just the bobbin or just the top? Thanks again for all you do.
Great questions! On marking with paper - whether it's golden threads or freezer paper, I've found it easier to mark in sections. So I'd mark the feathers with one piece of paper, the vase with another, the background with 2-4 pieces. The reason is the block shifts and as you quilt it also shrinks and the paper might have fit great to start, but then begins to wrinkle and distort and really get in your way. So I'd mark one section at a time as you quilt it. Another thing - you really want to be able to see your ditches so make sure to cut your paper a little smaller than the space it's covering so you can see where the seamlines are on the surface.
As for water soluble thread - always top AND bobbin so it washes out completely. If you use regular thread here it would get caught by the overlapping stitching and stay in the quilt and not look good.
I'm going to try the invisible thread. My question is do I still need to pin before I baste?
Yep. No matter if you're using invisible thread or colorful thread, the pinning process holds your quilt together so the layers don't shift. Otherwise you'll get puckers and pleats on the front or the back.
Where did you get the plastic pin guards you use
You can find them on my website! We're out of stock right this second, but they will be back in stock by the end of the week - leahday.com/products/baste-your-quilt-kit
Do you use spray basting?
No, I really don't like basting spray. If you do use it, just be sure to spray outside because it's not a good chemical to use inside.
Could you give us your reasoning on why you don't like spray basting?
Help!! My wash-a-way thread keeps breaking in my machine!!
Try lowering your thread tension considerably on the top. It doesn't really matter if it breaks because it will all wash out anyway, but it does get annoying. Lower tension will usually get it working again.
Thanks Leah. I did do that and it did work. Had to lower my top tension down to about 2.5.