Question Thursday #6

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

8 Responses

  1. Hi Leah,
    thanks to you I found the Isacord Tread and it works absoutely perfect for me after I brought a treadholder too. I looks beautiful and it never breaks ☺
    I´m very thankful to you, you do a great work!!
    Liebe Grüße
    Bente – Germany

  2. Malini says:

    Hi Leah,
    I'm glad to see that your feeling better.
    Thank you so much for answering all my questions. Great post on threads and needles. It does make a huge difference.

    Take it easy this week.
    take care!

  3. Becky says:

    Great post! I'm having a horrible time with skipping stitches too. My big variable is a new machine. I'm just about to get rid of it and get a new one :(. Thought I'd share how I like to layer the quilt together, using binding clamps to get that back (of the quilt, not the sewist) nice and "tight". http://becky-beckysblabber.blogspot.com/2010/11/spare-your-knees-alternative-way-to.html

  4. patsroamin says:

    I just wanted to add a comment to the "picking stitches" question. I've found that if you give the end of the thread a sharp tug upwards, it pulls the bobbin thread up just a little making more room to get the seam ripper in. I've used this hint way more than I care to admit.

  5. June D says:

    Leah – Wonderful that you are feeling better- and thank you for visiting my blog! I'm wondering for that design last week – were you able to do it in one pass or did you break thread? I know it wasn't the real point of the lesson but it was so attractive I had to try it out!

  6. Polly says:

    Thank you for sharing so much on your blog! We love reading it! You've been chosen to receive a blog award. Go here to check it out!! http://www.auntpollysporch.blogspot.com/2012/02/sweet-mrs-pickles.html

    Thanks for blogging! Polly

  7. Linda says:

    Careful, though, about getting the back fabric too tight. I would maybe say taut instead of tight. One of my backs was so tight that when I untaped it and it relaxed, the quilt top looked puckered–even though it was already pin basted by that time. I went on and quilted it, thinking it would "quilt out" (why do we always think that?). It never really did, and the quilt doesn't look horrible, but it could sure look better.

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