Omg they should pay you! I've been debating whether it would be worth it to buy this frame and you showed me what it would look like to do a big quilt. THANK YOU! I think this is going to save my shoulders and neck! Thank you!!!
I am so glad I watched you I have a cutie frame I'm learning to quilt I have a Q unique 16x Elite I haven't had it for very long the quote on making about a queen size or bigger 15 8 inch squares of Christ 14 down I cut squares with two different material colored material and I cut that in half and sew them together but for some reason I could not get all the lines to line up straight I took it apart I put it together I took it apart I put it together to the point to where it's that's it and I am so glad to see you using the cutie frame now I know how much easier way to lay out my quilting and everything thank you so much
I am so happy to have found this video! You have done a wonderful job of instructing and you’ve alleviated my fright to BEGIN on my new Little Rebel and Cutie Breeze set. I made a beautiful queen quilt top a few months ago and I was so afraid I’d mess it up that simply FROZE and have been so scared to move on to the FMQ. You’ve truly inspired me and calmed my fears. Thank you 😊
Great instructional video on using the cutie. You do an excellent job of explaining the steps. I’ll rewatch when I get my frame and begin to quilt. Thanks for taking the time to explain everything so clearly. Way better than the Grace Company video.
Love this video, helped make me comfortable to get started. I actually bought the Husqvarna Designer Fabric Frame second hand (and an Artistic Quilter 18-made by Janome but just like the Tin Lizzie) rather than the Cutie-is on a stand, and what I could find for what I wanted to spend. I was still intimidated after reading how to load and such but actually watching someone do it makes me feel confident about it. Plus I only had planned to do baby or throw size but now I’m sure I will be able to finish my already made larger quilt tops-made over the years but never finished. Thanks so much for taking the time to walk us through everything; best class ever. God bless!
Great video. I've had this same frame and machine for about 6 months but it's good to see how other people do things. Learned a better way to do a few things. Thank you!
Thank you so much. I have had my cutie for a year and had only completed small projects. Baby quilts. Nothing I had to move. I am a visual learning and your video gave me the confidence! I am very pleased with the outcome and looking forward to completing more!!
Awesome tutorial!!!!! Wonderful narration, instructions, and cameras angle! I learned a ton!I just bought my cutie frame and have been practicing with the sample fabric that was included. I have an older Bernina, and I can only sew about 4.5" before I have to move my fabric again, but it's a start, and I'm loving it! I am looking forward to buying a longarm machine very soon! You are a great teacher. Thank you so much for the video!
Thank you, thank you - this video was very helpful. I've had my Cutie for about a month and I'm just getting ready to put my first "real quilt" on it. I've been practicing on an old sheet (2 layers of sheet with batting in between. You've made re-hooping look very doable.
Best video ever for anything connected to sewing. Very clear. I've been wondering where I could find a class on quilting on a frame, and this was as good as a class, I think. Thank you so much! I'm going to look for more videos from you!
Thank you for this very informative video! I have had my Cutie Frame for a little while. I have only quilted on it about 6 time’s, they have been fairly small projects. I do have some queen size quilt tops that my husbands mum had made. This has given me the ‘courage’ to get cracking on them. Thank you again.
I have a Cutie frame, and a Baby Lock Jazz II. So far I have been struggling with getting my first quilt set up on the frame. I have succeeded in making a very comfortable hammock for my cats! Videos by actual users are so helpful.
Thank you so so much. You explained everything so well. Glad to see that went off line a little in basting....that would me!! It's good to see the steps in the process. Where others might only give a little info. you were pretty thorough. I just got a Q'nique myself and I have the cutie but only used it once with my regular machine. Thank you for your video I saved it so I can watch again. 😊😊😊
Thank you so much for this video. I’ve been wondering if the Cutie would work for me and you made it easy to see that it would. Appreciate your time in preparing the video for us.
Thank you for the great video I just got my machine and frame less than a week ago and was freaking out about leader cloths and do I need the or not You make so much sense to me and it seems easier
Very helpful video, am thinking of purchasing the cutie but needed 1st to understand how to work with large quilts on the frame. Very good video. Thank you!!
I think understanding how it works ahead of time is very important to avoid disappointment or regret. That’s why I like to show “real world” projects and not small examples made specifically for the tutorials.
Christie! Thank you so much for this video. It's good to know I can use my cutie frame this way. Right now I have the Babylock Jazz II on it but in the near future I'll be getting a "real" long arm machine. I was very intimidated by the costs but looking at just the machine you have it seems very do-able.
I really love my Q'nique 19. Keep an eye out for previously-used sales now that the new Elite series is out and maybe you can catch a deal. I bought mine as a refurbished machine to save some money and it has worked great for me.
This was helpful. I have the Q-Frame but yours looks bigger. I have the q-15 and my front bar all the way out. I still get only 10-12 inches to quilt in depth. Thank you.
The Q-Zone frame is bigger (longer) than the Cutie, but I have a Qnique 19 which has more throat space than the Q15. No matter what machine you use, you'll lose about 3 inches, so 10-12 inches sounds about right. I get about 14-16 inches on mine.
Am enjoying this, my tax refund will be buying me a Grace Cutie and my current quilt went to the local library to be layered. Their big table made the job easy and my herd of cats couldn’t be causing me problems. I do have table space but it’s not possible to do anything without the cats.
Yes. I stitch in the ditch and then do the rest of my free motion. Or depending on how the design is I might be able to stitch in the ditch as I go. I try to make sure a section is ditched before filling it.
I believe the table size is 24"x53". The frame takes up the whole table front to back (24") and there are a couple inches free on the side. I have just enough room to squeeze by on the right side of the table (my cutting table is next to the frame) and just enough space to squeeze by behind the Cutie (the closet doors must be closed for me to get by). My desk is to the left of the cutie and there is no room for me to walk by the frame unless I pull my chair out. In front of the cutie frame is several feet. Enough for me to be quilting at the frame and my husband to walk by. We squeezed it in. 😂
This looks just like my cutie frame 😮 I have a juki machine, having trouble with free motion quilting my sewing machine won't grab the bottom thread it sews perfect with the feeddogs in place 😔
Thanks for sharing this. I just got my Cutie. I see you and many others don’t use leaders. It seems such a waste not to use them. Why do you and others not use them.
I don't find it a waste. This King size quilt in this video for example, I think it was 108"x108"? I had to buy 3 lengths of fabric for the backing anyway, because 42+42 was not going to be wide enough. So I had lots of extra backing fabric to serve as leaders. Most often I am doing throw size quilts, say 50x60. So again, I need 2 lengths, and the 80-ish inches I get from sewing them together is more than enough to serve as leaders. I also often use the backing fabric to cut the strips for my binding, so the extra fabric does go to use. I did make my own leaders from a canvas-type fabric I got from Joanns, for those cases where the backing isn't big enough. (such as the quilt I'm working on right now, actually.) But pinning the quilt back to the leaders is just another step that needs to be done before I can put my quilt on the Cutie. I want to get to the quilting faster . 🙂
I have a Q'Nique19. Sorry I don't have a quilt ready for trimming, however I learned how to do it from this video: ua-cam.com/video/TcgOsoWXy2A/v-deo.html Hope this helps!
Would you tell me what sized table you have your cutie frame on. It looks like there are drawers in it. Thank you for a great video. I am ordering the frame this week.
Hi again. Because of health reasons I had to wait to order the Husky workbench that you are using,. Is your bench the 52” or 62” size? Also is there room on the table to use a pantograph?
I have the 52" because that's all that will fit in my space. Either size should work. You just need a tabletop no smaller than 24x48". Because pantographs will go within the base of the frame, any table that fits the Cutie frame should work with pantographs.
I see that you use the Grace Q’nique 19. I found one for $4900. Recertified. I have the cutie frame. I am torn between such a good price or buying the Q’nique 19X or 19x elite. If you were buying a machine today which would you buy? I am not a professional quilter and will use it for quilting personal quilts, etc. Thank you for your advice.
I just looked up the prices on the 19x and elite and holy cow! I also bought my Q19 recertified and have had no trouble with it. No regrets at all. It doesn’t have the bobbin estimator or the edge detector but I’ve been fine without those features. Nice to have, sure, but not necessary. If I were buying a machine right now, I’d buy the recertified Q19 because I don’t feel the new features are worth such a huge price difference. Recertified machines go fast and aren’t always available so you might want to jump on that deal. On the other hand, Grace’s spring fling is next month and they will have sales… but who knows what the sales will be. Often they bundle several items with the machine for free. I’m not a professional quilter either, and I love my Q19 and would buy it again in a heartbeat.
Okay, I can see already that you have something attached to the frame that doesn't come with the frame. To camera right, there are two blue bars. To camera left she is adding clamps that are not part of the Cutie Frame package. I'm seeing the need for additional clamps in all the videos I have viewed so far. Off to Harbor Freight for clamps. I'm regretting more and more my haste to purchase a Cutie Frame. And now, they've upgraded the frame. What's with the blue painter's tape? And the rubber bands? The frame is easy enough to assemble. I don't think there are adequate warnings about the adjustments necessary to fit the machine onto the frame. The videos make it all look so easy. I'm going to be taking lessons on a long arm at a local quilting store.
The clamps on the left side just hold that side taut while quilting. Grace sells bungee clips to accomplish that purpose, but I did a DIY to save money. You could eliminate the need for clips altogether by pinning extra fabric on the sides of the quilt and using the blue clamps that came with the frame. That's a completely $0 cost solution. The blue tape on my clamps just give me a visual of how far to the side I can quilt. I'm not sure what rubber bands you are referring to? I'm also not sure what you mean about the "adjustments necessary to fit the machine onto the frame"....what machine are you using and what adjustments are you finding necessary? I'm sorry to hear you are regretting purchasing your Cutie. I really love mine. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you learn to love your Cutie.
Loved your video. Could you please share a link to the side clamps and toggle cords you use? They look so much easier than what I’ve been using. You make a big quilt seem do-able without all the hassle of basting. One more question. Do you ever use pantographs? And how would this change how you load your quilt. Maybe you have a video on this? Thanks in advance.
I just used stuff I already had. The toggles are these: joann.app.link/bEnbLC5MNBb (probably available on amazon too), the cord is elastic cording, and the clips I had from a photo backdrop set but they are similar to these Heavy Duty Muslin Clamps 4 1/2 inch 6 Pack a.co/d/4ybPsVs Hope this helps!
I don't do pantographs but I think the only thing I would do differently is take the time to make sure the quilt was as perfectly straight in the hoop. Then when shifting the quilt, I would drop the needle and use channel locks to make sure it stays straight. Grace now sells channel locks for the Cutie but you can also use Handiquilter's channel locks (you can see one hanging in the handle of my Q'nique.) Moving to the next row would be a little more challenging because you'd have to move just the right amount forward and also make sure you hoop the quilt straight. Also depending on the pantograph pattern you may want to do all the rows left to right instead of alternating between left to right and right to left. To me, having to hoop that carefully is not worth it. I prefer to freehand and use rulers and do what's called "custom quilting" rather than pantographs or edge to edge designs. Stitched by Susan is a good channel to watch for learning how to freehand edge to edge designs. Angela Walters is great for learning how to freehand more custom style. Hope this helps!
Christie, you have helped me so very much..mentally more than anything! I’m new to my Cutie and have been quilting using my embroidery module and edge to edge quilting up till now on my Bernina. I’ve been so consumed that the quilt had to be so perfectly straight on the hoop. You’ve given me the understanding that if I don’t do a panto or E2E I can either free motion or custom quilt without that much stress!!! Hallelujah! So many of your little side comments have been so eye opening to me. Thank you for the clamp links and all the help!!
@@cmarks101010 so glad I could help! I also have a bernina and have tried quilting with the embroidery module but it was soo not for me. 😂 Too much stress trying to get it all lined up. I call myself a lazy quilter… I prefer to get good results with the least effort. 😉
Nope, because I always have at least one side that has all three layers secured. In the first hooping, it's the line of pins at the top. In subsequent hooping, it's the quilting I just did in the previous hooping zone. Every time I re-hoop my quilt, I make sure my backing is smooth, radiating out from either those pins or the previous quilting. As long as I never hoop a section that has NO securing within it, I always know my backing is smooth from the last place I quilted. I hope that makes sense.
This is the best video I've seen walking through all the steps. Thanks so much!
Glad it was helpful!
I agree! I'm so glad to find you!
Omg they should pay you! I've been debating whether it would be worth it to buy this frame and you showed me what it would look like to do a big quilt. THANK YOU! I think this is going to save my shoulders and neck! Thank you!!!
Thank you, SO much for going thru this process with us!!! To see the real workings and setups are greatly appreciated ❤
I am so glad I watched you I have a cutie frame I'm learning to quilt I have a Q unique 16x Elite I haven't had it for very long the quote on making about a queen size or bigger 15 8 inch squares of Christ 14 down I cut squares with two different material colored material and I cut that in half and sew them together but for some reason I could not get all the lines to line up straight I took it apart I put it together I took it apart I put it together to the point to where it's that's it and I am so glad to see you using the cutie frame now I know how much easier way to lay out my quilting and everything thank you so much
I am so happy to have found this video! You have done a wonderful job of instructing and you’ve alleviated my fright to BEGIN on my new Little Rebel and Cutie Breeze set. I made a beautiful queen quilt top a few months ago and I was so afraid I’d mess it up that simply FROZE and have been so scared to move on to the FMQ. You’ve truly inspired me and calmed my fears. Thank you 😊
@@BBsummers I’m so happy the video helped you! I hope you’ve been quilting!
Great instructional video on using the cutie. You do an excellent job of explaining the steps. I’ll rewatch when I get my frame and begin to quilt. Thanks for taking the time to explain everything so clearly. Way better than the Grace Company video.
This is a great video. Thanks
Thank you, thank you, thank you. You have helped me a lot. Judith
You are so welcome
Love this video, helped make me comfortable to get started. I actually bought the Husqvarna Designer Fabric Frame second hand (and an Artistic Quilter 18-made by Janome but just like the Tin Lizzie) rather than the Cutie-is on a stand, and what I could find for what I wanted to spend. I was still intimidated after reading how to load and such but actually watching someone do it makes me feel confident about it. Plus I only had planned to do baby or throw size but now I’m sure I will be able to finish my already made larger quilt tops-made over the years but never finished. Thanks so much for taking the time to walk us through everything; best class ever. God bless!
I believe we have talked on the FB group. So glad the video was helpful for you. Can’t wait to see some of your photos of your finished quilts!
Great video. I've had this same frame and machine for about 6 months but it's good to see how other people do things. Learned a better way to do a few things. Thank you!
Thank you so much. I have had my cutie for a year and had only completed small projects. Baby quilts. Nothing I had to move. I am a visual learning and your video gave me the confidence! I am very pleased with the outcome and looking forward to completing more!!
AWESOME quilt ! I'm starting one after next week it's HUGE . i really need this video THANK YOU !
Awesome tutorial!!!!! Wonderful narration, instructions, and cameras angle! I learned a ton!I just bought my cutie frame and have been practicing with the sample fabric that was included. I have an older Bernina, and I can only sew about 4.5" before I have to move my fabric again, but it's a start, and I'm loving it! I am looking forward to buying a longarm machine very soon! You are a great teacher. Thank you so much for the video!
Thank you so much for the kind words. I’m happy the video helped you. Enjoy your Cutie!
Which Bernina do you have? I have an artista 180 which I love. 🙂
Thank you, thank you - this video was very helpful. I've had my Cutie for about a month and I'm just getting ready to put my first "real quilt" on it. I've been practicing on an old sheet (2 layers of sheet with batting in between. You've made re-hooping look very doable.
Thanks for taking the time to do this!
Best video ever for anything connected to sewing. Very clear. I've been wondering where I could find a class on quilting on a frame, and this was as good as a class, I think. Thank you so much! I'm going to look for more videos from you!
Aw, thank you! If you haven't already, check out Leah Day. She has some good videos on quilting on a Q-Zone frame as well as a Continuum frame.
Thank you for this very informative video! I have had my Cutie Frame for a little while. I have only quilted on it about 6 time’s, they have been fairly small projects. I do have some queen size quilt tops that my husbands mum had made. This has given me the ‘courage’ to get cracking on them. Thank you again.
I’m so glad my video helped! You can do it! It takes some practice and patience but ai promise it gets easier
I have a Cutie frame, and a Baby Lock Jazz II. So far I have been struggling with getting my first quilt set up on the frame. I have succeeded in making a very comfortable hammock for my cats! Videos by actual users are so helpful.
Are you a member of the Cutie Quilters facebook group? There are many experienced members there who may be able to help you.
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@sophuzzy have you found Bonnie's videos yet? Her channel name is Quilting on a thread I think. Her Cutie videos are excellent
Thank you so so much. You explained everything so well. Glad to see that went off line a little in basting....that would me!! It's good to see the steps in the process. Where others might only give a little info. you were pretty thorough. I just got a Q'nique myself and I have the cutie but only used it once with my regular machine.
Thank you for your video I saved it so I can watch again.
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Great tutorial Christie... very helpful.. I have the same setup as you. This is the best tutorial of how to quilt on the cutie that Ive seen!
Aw thank you, I’m glad it was helpful!
Thank you for sending the information. Ordered my cutie frame and ordering the Husky table today,
Great tutorial
Hope it was helpful!
Thank you so much for this video. I’ve been wondering if the Cutie would work for me and you made it easy to see that it would. Appreciate your time in preparing the video for us.
Glad it was helpful! I love my Cutie frame!
Thank you so much for the video. I’m thinking about getting one
Very informative. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the great video I just got my machine and frame less than a week ago and was freaking out about leader cloths and do I need the or not You make so much sense to me and it seems easier
Very helpful video, am thinking of purchasing the cutie but needed 1st to understand how to work with large quilts on the frame. Very good video. Thank you!!
I think understanding how it works ahead of time is very important to avoid disappointment or regret. That’s why I like to show “real world” projects and not small examples made specifically for the tutorials.
Christie! Thank you so much for this video. It's good to know I can use my cutie frame this way. Right now I have the Babylock Jazz II on it but in the near future I'll be getting a "real" long arm machine. I was very intimidated by the costs but looking at just the machine you have it seems very do-able.
I really love my Q'nique 19. Keep an eye out for previously-used sales now that the new Elite series is out and maybe you can catch a deal. I bought mine as a refurbished machine to save some money and it has worked great for me.
This was helpful. I have the Q-Frame but yours looks bigger. I have the q-15 and my front bar all the way out. I still get only 10-12 inches to quilt in depth. Thank you.
The Q-Zone frame is bigger (longer) than the Cutie, but I have a Qnique 19 which has more throat space than the Q15. No matter what machine you use, you'll lose about 3 inches, so 10-12 inches sounds about right. I get about 14-16 inches on mine.
oh my i'm going to quilt one almost as large but with wool. oy ! It's gonna be so heavy . But I love the look :)
I was going to do wool but this is a gift and I wasn’t sure about allergies.
i love keepsake quilting
Am enjoying this, my tax refund will be buying me a Grace Cutie and my current quilt went to the local library to be layered. Their big table made the job easy and my herd of cats couldn’t be causing me problems. I do have table space but it’s not possible to do anything without the cats.
Are you using an ordinary domestic sewing machine withou out any fancy extras?
Do you stitch in the ditch on blocks to stabilize also ?
Yes. I stitch in the ditch and then do the rest of my free motion. Or depending on how the design is I might be able to stitch in the ditch as I go. I try to make sure a section is ditched before filling it.
Thank you so much. This answered my question in so many ways. I would like to know about how much space your machine and frame takes up.
I believe the table size is 24"x53". The frame takes up the whole table front to back (24") and there are a couple inches free on the side. I have just enough room to squeeze by on the right side of the table (my cutting table is next to the frame) and just enough space to squeeze by behind the Cutie (the closet doors must be closed for me to get by). My desk is to the left of the cutie and there is no room for me to walk by the frame unless I pull my chair out.
In front of the cutie frame is several feet. Enough for me to be quilting at the frame and my husband to walk by.
We squeezed it in. 😂
What kind of sewing machine do you use? Is it a special one? It doesn’t look like a domestic machine.
@@sdcgren6301 it is a Qnique 19 longarm. However domestic machines can be used on the Cutie as well.
This looks just like my cutie frame 😮 I have a juki machine, having trouble with free motion quilting my sewing machine won't grab the bottom thread it sews perfect with the feeddogs in place 😔
Hmmm. I don’t know much about Juki machines. Are you trying to pull up the bobbin thread to start quilting, or is it not forming stitches?
Do you press your backing fabric before you sandwich ?
No I’m lazy! 😂 I figure it’ll crinkle up after it’s washed anyway.
Thanks for sharing this. I just got my Cutie. I see you and many others don’t use leaders. It seems such a waste not to use them. Why do you and others not use them.
I don't find it a waste. This King size quilt in this video for example, I think it was 108"x108"? I had to buy 3 lengths of fabric for the backing anyway, because 42+42 was not going to be wide enough. So I had lots of extra backing fabric to serve as leaders.
Most often I am doing throw size quilts, say 50x60. So again, I need 2 lengths, and the 80-ish inches I get from sewing them together is more than enough to serve as leaders.
I also often use the backing fabric to cut the strips for my binding, so the extra fabric does go to use.
I did make my own leaders from a canvas-type fabric I got from Joanns, for those cases where the backing isn't big enough. (such as the quilt I'm working on right now, actually.) But pinning the quilt back to the leaders is just another step that needs to be done before I can put my quilt on the Cutie. I want to get to the quilting faster . 🙂
I wonder what your machine is? Also, please do a video on squaring up a king-sized quilt on a 24 by 36 cutting mat!!!
I have a Q'Nique19.
Sorry I don't have a quilt ready for trimming, however I learned how to do it from this video: ua-cam.com/video/TcgOsoWXy2A/v-deo.html
Hope this helps!
Would you tell me what sized table you have your cutie frame on. It looks like there are drawers in it. Thank you for a great video. I am ordering the frame this week.
It’s a Husky table from Home Depot. It's 52x24" and has two drawers. The drawers are great for storing rulers, extra bobbins, machine accessories, etc
Hi again. Because of health reasons I had to wait to order the Husky workbench that you are using,. Is your bench the 52” or 62” size? Also is there room on the table to use a pantograph?
I have the 52" because that's all that will fit in my space. Either size should work. You just need a tabletop no smaller than 24x48". Because pantographs will go within the base of the frame, any table that fits the Cutie frame should work with pantographs.
I see that you use the Grace Q’nique 19. I found one for $4900. Recertified. I have the cutie frame. I am torn between such a good price or buying the Q’nique 19X or 19x elite. If you were buying a machine today which would you buy? I am not a professional quilter and will use it for quilting personal quilts, etc. Thank you for your advice.
I just looked up the prices on the 19x and elite and holy cow! I also bought my Q19 recertified and have had no trouble with it. No regrets at all. It doesn’t have the bobbin estimator or the edge detector but I’ve been fine without those features. Nice to have, sure, but not necessary. If I were buying a machine right now, I’d buy the recertified Q19 because I don’t feel the new features are worth such a huge price difference.
Recertified machines go fast and aren’t always available so you might want to jump on that deal. On the other hand, Grace’s spring fling is next month and they will have sales… but who knows what the sales will be. Often they bundle several items with the machine for free.
I’m not a professional quilter either, and I love my Q19 and would buy it again in a heartbeat.
I just watched your video and it really as a big help. Are you in Maryland? I noticed your tee shirt? I am in Maryland. Thanks again for the video.
I am in Maryland!
@@christiespeich6537 I am in hdg would love to see more video on how you use the cutie I just got mine set up.
Would it be possible to use the curved quilting pin?
@@sdcgren6301 I’m not sure what you mean. Like the curved safety pins? Sure I don’t see why not. Just harder to take out than straight pins
Thank you for your reply, I’ll try both ways when I get my quilting frame.
Okay, I can see already that you have something attached to the frame that doesn't come with the frame. To camera right, there are two blue bars. To camera left she is adding clamps that are not part of the Cutie Frame package. I'm seeing the need for additional clamps in all the videos I have viewed so far. Off to Harbor Freight for clamps. I'm regretting more and more my haste to purchase a Cutie Frame. And now, they've upgraded the frame. What's with the blue painter's tape? And the rubber bands?
The frame is easy enough to assemble. I don't think there are adequate warnings about the adjustments necessary to fit the machine onto the frame. The videos make it all look so easy.
I'm going to be taking lessons on a long arm at a local quilting store.
The clamps on the left side just hold that side taut while quilting. Grace sells bungee clips to accomplish that purpose, but I did a DIY to save money. You could eliminate the need for clips altogether by pinning extra fabric on the sides of the quilt and using the blue clamps that came with the frame. That's a completely $0 cost solution.
The blue tape on my clamps just give me a visual of how far to the side I can quilt.
I'm not sure what rubber bands you are referring to?
I'm also not sure what you mean about the "adjustments necessary to fit the machine onto the frame"....what machine are you using and what adjustments are you finding necessary?
I'm sorry to hear you are regretting purchasing your Cutie. I really love mine. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you learn to love your Cutie.
Loved your video. Could you please share a link to the side clamps and toggle cords you use? They look so much easier than what I’ve been using. You make a big quilt seem do-able without all the hassle of basting.
One more question. Do you ever use pantographs? And how would this change how you load your quilt. Maybe you have a video on this? Thanks in advance.
I just used stuff I already had. The toggles are these: joann.app.link/bEnbLC5MNBb (probably available on amazon too), the cord is elastic cording, and the clips I had from a photo backdrop set but they are similar to these Heavy Duty Muslin Clamps 4 1/2 inch 6 Pack a.co/d/4ybPsVs
Hope this helps!
I don't do pantographs but I think the only thing I would do differently is take the time to make sure the quilt was as perfectly straight in the hoop. Then when shifting the quilt, I would drop the needle and use channel locks to make sure it stays straight. Grace now sells channel locks for the Cutie but you can also use Handiquilter's channel locks (you can see one hanging in the handle of my Q'nique.)
Moving to the next row would be a little more challenging because you'd have to move just the right amount forward and also make sure you hoop the quilt straight. Also depending on the pantograph pattern you may want to do all the rows left to right instead of alternating between left to right and right to left.
To me, having to hoop that carefully is not worth it. I prefer to freehand and use rulers and do what's called "custom quilting" rather than pantographs or edge to edge designs.
Stitched by Susan is a good channel to watch for learning how to freehand edge to edge designs. Angela Walters is great for learning how to freehand more custom style.
Hope this helps!
Handi Quilter Channel Locks (Pack of 2)
www.amazon.com/Handi-Quilter-Channel-Locks-Pack/dp/B0778QVXQR
Christie, you have helped me so very much..mentally more than anything! I’m new to my Cutie and have been quilting using my embroidery module and edge to edge quilting up till now on my Bernina. I’ve been so consumed that the quilt had to be so perfectly straight on the hoop. You’ve given me the understanding that if I don’t do a panto or E2E I can either free motion or custom quilt without that much stress!!! Hallelujah! So many of your little side comments have been so eye opening to me. Thank you for the clamp links and all the help!!
@@cmarks101010 so glad I could help! I also have a bernina and have tried quilting with the embroidery module but it was soo not for me. 😂 Too much stress trying to get it all lined up. I call myself a lazy quilter… I prefer to get good results with the least effort. 😉
Do you ever experience puckering since your sandwich is not basted within the layers?
Nope, because I always have at least one side that has all three layers secured. In the first hooping, it's the line of pins at the top. In subsequent hooping, it's the quilting I just did in the previous hooping zone. Every time I re-hoop my quilt, I make sure my backing is smooth, radiating out from either those pins or the previous quilting.
As long as I never hoop a section that has NO securing within it, I always know my backing is smooth from the last place I quilted.
I hope that makes sense.
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