patchworkbox.co... No more crawling around the floor on your hands and knees. No more aching joints. No need for masking tape or pins. What's more you'll see a superior result and you'll never go back to the "old" way again!
Thank you for showing a different way to thread a needle and tie a knot in a threaded needle than I've seen. We don't all have the same information from our pasts, and we don't all assume what other people know. Only saw someone quilt, but wasn't taught details. Not assuming makes you a great teacher. I appreciate sharing. Your ideas will make my quilting more interesting. I HOPE you make more videos. You're my favorite.
This is an extremely clever technique. As someone who is challenged with space, and who does not want to crawl around on the floor, I truly appreciate it. Thanks for sharing!
I like the use of the boards. I would suggest marking the center of each board and label it as zero. Then mark/tape each side with inch marks. This will allow you to easily center the fabrics. For bigger quilts, use longer boards. Use painters tape to initially hold the fabric on the board.
Thank you so much. I I think I have tried every method known to quilting and this is far the best for me. It was so stable from beginning to end and not a pucker in sight.
Ok, I love you! I have been trying to figure out how I can finish my grandsons quilt without ending up killing myself. I have had 10 back surgeries and getting up and down is impossible for me. Thanks for putting this method out there and thanks to the comments sharing other tips too. I LOVE IT!
Hi, firstly I would really to thank you for going out of your way to try and help others, like myself, I found your video very informative and helpful. Yes as you so mentioned early in the video it isn't your original idea, but who knows even if it is Sharon's, Quilting has been around for a long time and she may have picked it up from someone else. I personally find it insulting that their are such rude people who would go out of their way to criticize you for something like Plagiarism, who obviously doesn't know what it means, as we all know apart from her, for you to Plagiarize something you have to have owned the material for yourself, and not informed the reader or in this case listener, where it originally came from. As for the music, yep it was the only part of the video that wasn't fantastic, but I don't see those who like putting crap on others out there helping anyone like you are. Again Thank You So Much.
Thank you sooooo much for this tip. It will definitely make my life easier when I'm ready to put my backing, batting and top together. Please continue to share any other tips you might have to make quitting an even more joyful experience. :-)
What an awesome discovery !!! Thank you soooooo very much for sharing Sharon Schamber 's method. My next shopping trip is to Lowe's for the necessary boards.
I basted a very large quilt this way. It was amazing. I did use a table at the church, but you do not need a huge table. Just enough for the width of your quilt.
Thank you for taking the time to show this technique! I hate that it received such sorry reviews. Personally being a beginner...I like when someone explains things that I may learn to use in the future. I learned to quilt ONLY by watching RU-vid and lots of tips from blogs and sites. I'm thankful that techniques are passed down person to person. People helping other people learn this amazing craft is what it's all about! Even experienced quilters learn new things...and to the ones who had a difficult time hearing, you don't always have to hear things to learn the techniques. I would much rather see a video and have clear visual steps than to hear someone tell me what I'm seeing. Thanks again....
Same here. Good old YT tutorials. Haven't made a quilt yet but this is the first video I've seen where the artist used thread to baste and not straight pins or safety pins. I like that! Too bad there's no such thing as a basting gun...or is there?
I love that you took the time to make this video. Basting with thread is so easy and fast, and the method requires very few supplies. The fact that I can fold up a quilt after hand basting until I have a chance to work on it is one of the biggest advantages of hand basting. I easily can put my quilt aside if I need my workspace, and nothing shifts. So far I have managed to work atop a table for each step of quilting.
I have gotten so much information from the videos and I can't stop watching them. Thanks RU-vid! I have solved several problems and also learned a lot Of easier techniques
The music in the background makes it very hard for a person with a hearing problem to understand what you are saying. Would really be nice if the music was turned down. I would have loved to of heard everything.
i was going to comment the same. The music starts out so loud then you can't hear the speaking at all. When I turned it up enough to hear it, the music was back. I had to turn the sound off and trying to read the captions and see the demonstration is extremely frustrating.
I don't have great hearing but I hear her just fine. It's probably your computer. Go to the audio window and fine tune the speakers to what works for you. I need to do this for some videos. Thank you so much Florence for this great technique. I never saw it on Sharon's vids but came across it here. Bless you for sharing.
I have one question. When doing a larger quilt, how do you keep the top/back on the board, do you secure it with tape or do you have to have other people to help you begin rolling them onto the boards?
LoL I finished my top and was quilting my backing thinking everything was going well when lol and behold my backing material crinkled up and I did not notice it . I pinned the quilt with safety pins and moved on just straight stitch method. I was nearly done and I noticed this problem . I do not have a good table method as this lady had. Oh my gosh I could cry !!!!!! Louise Visscher
I have watched youtube videos where people use POOL NOODLES to do this .. It WORKS and the pool noodles are LIGHT WEIGHT and you don't have to deal with a heavy board...
She gives a lot more information than an experienced person would need here. But the method of attaching the three layers together isn't important, it's the way she lays them out and gets them together. Then pin, baste, or spray.
@@kfccooksmom does spray basting clog the sewing machine needle ? I am just starting to quilt and i just got rulers Christmas beginners ruler set and think spray basting may be importing
Great tutorial, thank you! To those referring to this basting method originating with Sharon Schamber, this is not the case. As we may never know the true inventor of this method, the Gee’s Bend quilters have been utilizing this method of basting long before Ms. Schamber was around.
Any marker that reappears can be removed with water and baking soda. Put a little baking soda in a spray bottle with water and spritz. Its permanently removed even after ironing. I use in heirloom sewing all the time and we iron heavily.
Annette Williams, Oh thank you for telling us that! I have a hand pieced this quilt that was started close to 40 years ago, when those blue markers were new. No one ever said not to iron over those marks! Well, not until years later. 😬 It wasn’t finished and I stopped working on it because I figured it was ruined! (I did a LOT of pressing on it.) I kept asking at quilt shows, etc, and nobody knew if it could be removed. Now I have hope. Thank you so much!
Love this...I think I can do it...??? If I am making a large quilt do I need to increase the width of the boards I use??? I know I must increase the length.
I just used this method on a quilt that is about 15 inches longer than my boards. Longer boards would work better but I made it work by rolling my batting on a long wooden pole. I can see that having a third board for the batting would be helpful with a larger quilt. Mine is twin size and I used basting spray instead of thread basting. It's working out great.
Thank you so much for this video, this method is so much easier for someone like me with painful knees. no more crawling on the floor and trying to get back up.
I have done it on a large quilt. Worked so good my friends were all excited, and one went right home and did it. I'm doing a demo at a quilt show using this method in a few weeks, and hope to get some video of doing it on a larger quilt.
I agree those turquoise water soluble markers are unpredictable . I’ve known them disappear in humidity, reappear, and once I washed a marked quilt a little warm and it set brown marks which won’t come off. The quilt endures 35 years later and the marks are still there I think. So it was warmth or detergent, not sure which.
Fantastic. I have very bad back and legs so just cant get up and down from floor. So this is a useful idea for me. Quilts t big I send to be done by long arm quilter and she puts the layers together I just give her them. And all done beautifully. GREAT VIDEO..
Absolutely trying this method. Basting is ALWAYS where my quilts go wrong. In fact, I relegated myself to only doing throw-size quilts because my bigger tries were such disasters! I am excited to try a "real" quilt after watching this video. THANK YOU!
Now this is a method that appeals to me - being raised in the forest industry (sawmilling), the idea of using boards seems so right! And your basting stitches are great - they surely keep the panels in place whether you are working with them or not. I haven't taken the leap to actually do quilting on my pieced projects - too scared of making mistakes (fabric bunching underneath, etc)., but after seeing your video, it gives me the confidence to do it this way. Being like Danielle where I learned quilting by watching numerous RU-vid videos , it is wonderful that you take the time to share your knowledge with those of us wanting to learn and also have a professional result with fewer tears!
Wonderful!! I've never seen this way of holding the fabric while basting, thank you so much!! I've just begun working on a small quilt and this method will help me tremendously :-)
Love this tutorial. Have used this method 5-6 times now and love it. The backs of my quilts are so much smoother now. But, it would be nice if you spoke louder or you turn up your microphone.
Thank you for this great video! I have done some Queen sized quilts by taping them to the floor and pinning them but my knees won't take this anymore. I tried spray basting but found it does not wash out well so I personally would not use it for a baby quilt. I tried basting a baby quilt using the boards and it was much easier to get all layers smooth. I also found that it was the easiest to quilt with free motion quilting and stitching in the ditch - I did not get any puckering. I have not tried using a combination of boards and spray instead of the boards and hand basting but it should work. I do not like using pins because I use a special mat for the machine bed that helps the fabrics glide during free motion quilting and found that pins leave marks in the mat.
This looks the answer to my problems!! What size do you have the beams cut? Do you have several so that you can baste more than one size quilt or do you just go with your largest sized quilt when cutting the beams?
I bought 8 foot boards. If I have a larger quilt I'll have to buy some larger boards. Maybe I'll have my husband figure out how to extend the boards to fit various sizes.
I used this method combined with pin quilting with pinmoors on a twin size quilt. Simple, fast and easy and it basted perfectly. Thank you to you and Leah Day!!! Now I won't dread sanwiching my quilts anymore. :)
Joanne I would love to see photos or a video how you handle queen size boards. I've got 6 ft boards and find it difficult to keep the same tension throughout the length.
I had my speakers at full volume and could not hear a word she said. Also, she did not roll her top straight. I do like the technique but think round rollers, such as pool noodles, are better and easier.
