The soup can trick has been a game changer for me! Thank you so very much for sharing your tips and tricks with your fellow quilters. You make our experience so much more pleasant!
Lora Parker 🎉Woohoo! Isn’t it great to learn a new trick that is so helpful!?!?!😊 I love sharing my out of the blocks ways of puzzling through the inevitable “near Oopsies” that happen when we go from the pre planning in a perfect world on paper or screans or in my dreams... to the reality of stitching on a real Quilt of fabric!😱 I’m so glad you enjoyed this video... you probably already know, but we have over a Hundred Helpful Videos here for FREE... and some online classes to purchase available at SederQuilts.com 🌸blessings upon blessings to you! Tutoluu!💗
Funny how you find things AFTER you need them LOL. My last quilt had issues when I came to the end after floating the top but after watching this video, I'll have a better handle on it next time. Thank you!
🌸You are welcome! and ...😕Ohhhhh Phooey! 😬But, hey... if that hadn’t already happened, 🤷♀️you would not have known you needed to watch this. Now, if there is a next time, you’ll have good Options to utilize! Thanks for watching and letting me know you found my Quilty Stuff helpful. 💗Blessings to you! Tutoluu!🌸
Seems I am always thanking you for such great info, but I love all your tips, when you are new to this , it is wonderful to have experienced people teaching you the what not to do along with the other good options. Love your channel and watch as much as I can. Thanks again and have a great day.
Dwight Hill 🌸ohhhhh you give me good goosebumps! 🤗. It warms my heart to know that you and others enjoy my Helpful information🤓💗🥰❤️😎. We now have quite a few classes for sale on my website SederQuilts.com/shop (short, affordable, and most have printable handouts, too). I encourage folks to watch as much of my free tutorials here, first... but if you like my style... and when you are ready to take the next step... you will enjoy my classes... 😎FMQ, Frugal Piecing, ProStitcher (Standard and Premium): Basic Computerized functions, Edge to Edge, Chunking Borders, Creative Cropping, and soon to be released (as soon as I finish typing the handout) Cropping around Appliqué within an E2E! Thank you so much Dwight for your kind comments on so many of my Quilty Video Tutorials! 😊I appreciate you so very much! Have a wonderful day!💗 Tutoluu 🌸
Oh, thank you! I forgot about measuring precisely for the borders! And for explaining WHY the fullness happens! (Better to prevent than to try & fix when you're quilting!) I quilt on a domestic machine, and love it! Thanks for all the tips & techniques!!
Joanne Donovan 🌸You are so welcome! I do enjoy sharing lots of helpful hints... and knowing what not to do, and explaining why it happens, and understanding a few options, and how to fix it, and encouraging abundant forgiveness for all the Oopsies, and on and on we go... 🎉I’m so glad to hear that you enjoy our videos full of tips and techniques! 💗Thanks for stopping by! Come back again! Tutoluu!😊
YOU SAVED ME with this video!!!!!! I was doing a small baby quilt and almost to the end, when the wavy border (at the bottom) surfaced!!!!! I lost sleep over this one. The borders are white soI couldn't sneak any tucks in. I tried starching and steaming and it worked! THANK YOU!!! I love your videos and subscribed to you!
Michele Gnazzo 🎉🎉🎉yeaaaaaaaay! Oh I’m so happy to be helpful! There are Lots of Options.... each quilt is different... 🤓time for the happy dance 💃 💃💃 Thank you for subscribing !🌸
Thank you for the great tips....I came back and watched this video again when I was quilted my final border. The soap can trick is awesome too....I really felt I needed two more hands and to my surprise two cans of soup was the answer! Thank you again.
Kathleen Ross 🌸Those little helpful hints come in handy! I really try to include as many tips as I can think of while we record🤓 an extra hand or two makes things easier🤗 sometimes we need to improvise! I’m so glad you are finding so many gems and keepers in my Hundred Helpful Free Videos! Keep watching... there’s more to come. Thanks for sharing SederQuilts😎Tutoluu!🌸
Love it! You are so helpful! My daughter just quilted one of her tops and came up with about 2” extra... We ended up making small darts at seam lines and hand stitching them where they wouldn’t show the stitching thread... She was very pleased with the result and it was a great teaching moment about measuring the center of the quilt to cut the borders! Even better was the teaching moment of there always being more than one way to skin a rat!😜 Your soup can idea is a new one that I will put into my “toolbox “!
cathyjanehale ohhhh Cathy Jane, you warm my heart! I love to be helpful and so appreciate hearing from anyone who enjoys my videos! How sweet that you and your daughter are working through some teachable moments! I like to encourage Quilters to Experiment and puzzle out what might work for this situation... There really are many options that could work... 😉 Breathe 🌸 Enjoy❄️ Merry Christmas to you and all of yours🎄Paola Jo☃️
This is very helpful! After quilting on my longarm for a year many of these issues have been unresolved by all the "official" instructions. Will be watching this more than once!
Karen Ganote 🎉thank you so much for the encouragement! Yeaaaay! This is exactly why I like to THINK OUT LOUD through all the OODLES OF OPTIONS... We are Quilting on Fabric... not graph paper nor computer screens.... every little thing that COULD potentially go goofy 🙃... sometimes does! Please share my OUT OF THE BOX/BLOCKS explanations with your friends🌸enjoy🎉
Elsie Oakes 🌸You are certainly welcome! I’m glad you find my Quilty Stuff helpful! Hopefully you’ll like most of my free hundred helpful videos... if so, I also have wonderful short classes at SederQuilts.com🌸
Thanks Paola!! I was so excited to see this post this morning! My machine is coming Monday and I’ve got a stack of quilt tops impatiently waiting! LOL!! Bought some clearance fabric to practice on and can’t wait to get it going.....thanks for your help!!!
Elizabeth Jones 🎉yeaaay! I’m so excited for you! Enjoy and breathe! Play play play with those first few quilts.🌸 thanks for the great question, keep watching and following SederQuilts.com
Jenny Smink 🌸You are so welcome! Thank you for letting me know you find my Quilty Stuff helpful. I love to be helpful... especially to newbies! We hope you enjoy playPlayPLAYing with your Longarm! 🎥I have over a Hundred Helpful tutorials here on RU-vid... 👩🏫and Classes and Cool Tools available on my website SederQuilts.com... 💃💃💃and more fun stuff on Facebook... Search for SederQuilts!🌸 Enjoy and Tutoluu!🌸
I don't have a long arm quilting machine. However, I did get tips on improving sewing on borders to make it less work for the long arm quilter. I saw Jackie's quilt and it is fabulous! Carmen
Carmen Rae Delaney thank you! I like to be helpful and share as many helpful hints as possible 🤓 I agree, Jacki’s Quilt is gorgeous! I look forward to more quilts from you gals🌸
S. Parker oh thank you so much! I love to teach and share my tricks and helpful hints! Please feel free to ask specific questions that you have! And subscribe so you can easily find all my videos (I have 100... oh my!) I do have a few online classes for purchase, too at MKQuilts.com🌸thank you so much for enjoying my explanations😊
Patricia Hale you are so welcome! I do like to offer options... and there are usually many good choices to pick from🌸 Thanks for watching my Quilting videos 😊I’m glad you enjoy them! Please feel free to Share them🌸
Hi there, I've just discovered your wonderful youtube channel. Great vids - may need to watch all 100 of them (omgoodness)...they're sooo useful. I'm not a long-armer...yet (but I'm workin' on it! :)). Not only do you explain things thoroughly, you give us quilters confidence. Yep, we CAN DO it, if we follow your amazing directions and helpful hints. One day, we all hope to be as good as you. Cheers, from Oz! ;)
Carol Wood 🌸❤️🌸❤️🌸oh thank you sweetheart! Keep experimenting and puzzling it out 🤓Yes, you Can do it... 💃Enjoy each little success 🎉I love to be helpful and I miss being “in person” with people (severe scent sensitivities & environmental allergies) ... so this video techno stuff has turned out to be such a blessing for me! I’ve even had some individual online training sessions with a few Quilters! ❤️May I please quote you on my Facebook page? I hope you enjoy many many of my videos! Say hello to the Wiz for me😉
Wow, loved your quick reply and sentiments! The Wiz says "hi" back to you and hopes one day you'll pay a visit Down-Under. So many quilters over here...I'll spread the word you're online with lots of useful tips and good 'ol-fashioned friendliness. Yes, WE SHOULD 'LOVE' ALL OUR QUILTS! Happy days, quilting friend!
Carol Wood oh in a perfect world, I would love to travel ... Ill click my heels and see what happens ... I played Glinda the Good Witch back in College drama days. 😉I now have followers from 25 countries... that seems unreal😎...It would be fun to tour about and puzzle out lots of quilts with all you sweet folks! Australia would be on my short wish list🌸 Are you familiar with Karen Hogan? We have worked together on several computerized designs. Still amazes me how we can visit half way around the world! 😎 in the mean time, we have videos🎥Enjoy!🌸
First time watching your video! I will subscribe! New to long arm with the Baby lock Cornet using the upgraded frame! Lots to learn but you make it look easy. Thank you!
THANK YOU! I have learned so many things watching your video that my brain just might explode. 😀 I'm subscribing to your channel! Keep up the awesome work!
Kara Pickett 🌸🎉💋🤓Yeaaaaaay! Thanks for the encouraging kind words! Breathe and enjoy... don’t explode🎉... let it soak in and sink in... 😎re-watch it later so it makes the most sense🤗 💗Thank you for watching and subscribing! Please share with your Quilty Friends! 🤔If you have specific questions, I am available for private tutoring, and I’m always looking for suggestions for new tutorial videos. 😊Thanks again! See you soon... Tutoluu!🌸
I just found your channel. I also have a Fusion. Are your leaders attached to your poles with Velcro? If yes, have you found that your leaders get a bit out of line? Have you ever removed and reattached your leaders? I’m going to look through all of your previous posts for more info. PS My first step in preparing a quilt to put on the long arm is to press it and measure it on a flat surface. I’m fortunate I have a ‘very old’ ironing board that is 54” by 18”. Your tips on boards are wonderful.
Luann Fischer 🌸💗🤗💗🌸Hi! Yes...check out this tutorial ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7TNo1UdgbQs.html for extra tips about Leader Grips... 🤓then search “SederQuilts Leader Grips” for more tips about loading quilt backs smoothly... 😎 I agree with you... I like to press both the back fabric and the quilt tops... and I prefer to use widebacks as often as possible 🌸🤓 I also have ⏰short affordable online classes (most with printable handouts📝) at SederQuilts.com/shop. Great basics for ProStitcher Premium as well as Free Motion Quilting. 🌸Enjoy watching! Thanks for your comments💗Tutoluu!🌸
MaryAnn McNees 🎉🌸yeaaaay! I’m glad you found me, too! I have over a hundred free videos here on RU-vid... many are organized into playlists🤓... and more tips on Facebook too😉. I love being helpful 🌸
Happy 100th Love your video's, the quilts I have done just for myself always have more at the end are a little bit wavy, I pin my quilts on the machine, maybe I am pulling and yanking to much while I am rolling it on my machine, will have to try some of your ideas. Cheers from Australia ( would love to have a class with you in person maybe one day)
Ilse Bartlett 100 thank yous!🎉 ahhh yes... it’s so easy to pull them too tight as we roll. ... all that tension has to go somewhere... iit ends up at the bottom or the edges... 🤔 when it first dawned on me that things were too tight... I would purposely un-click it one or two notches at each advancement... even left a post it note on the roller bar for awile🤣 a Happy howdy from Minnesota USA! Maybe some day we could do a live via internet class together... this techno stuff is pretty cool for long distance communication! I’m glad you enjoy my helpful Quilting videos 🌸thanks for watching🤓
At what cruise speed do you use, I have the exact same machine, second hand and the lady selling it to me said to always run it slow, is this right?? Thank you for your most informative videos. An actual cruise speed would be really helpful.
🌸Oh boy! Excellent questions! I usually run with Cruise on 5%... and use the thumb button to start&stop frequently... so it’s almost like having Precision AND Cruise at the same time! Speed is a personal preference (and there are Oodles of good options!) Experiment with your speed... too fast is not good for many reasons, but waaay too slow is not always a whole lot better... you need to find YOUR Best Speed for the type of stitching YOU are doing. 🤓If we are concentrating on following ditches or appliqué edges, Slower is best... 🐌🐛🐌🐛🐌 💃But if we are in our happy place stitching big curvy flowers or a huge quick meander, the machine needs to be going Fast enough to Keep Up with YOUR rhythm!💃🎶💃🎶💃 You are so welcome! The HQ Fusion is a Wonderful Work Horse of a Quilty Machine! Please continue to Follow along with my Videos... I love to be helpful... and I don’t plan on getting rid of my Fusion... hopefully there will be many more new Helpful Videos coming from my new Quilty Studio soon!🎉 🥰Thank you so much for watching and commenting! ✅Check out my Online Classes at SederQuilts.com 🌸
Our Time To Quilt! 🌸Thanks Deb! I love to share Helpful hints and teach based on What my Students Want to Learn! 🤓If you have suggestions, questions, or comments... let me know😉
Question: will denser quilting still eat up extra fullness in the borders if you are not edge to edge with your design, but handling the borders separately? (So- dense quilting in the main area of the the quilt and separate handling of the borders.) or, do you need to have your quilting design flow over into the borders and treat the whole quilt as one piece? I hope that makes sense. I can try to clarify if it does not. You can let me know. Thank you so much for all the extra information you added into this video. It is extremely helpful to know what does not work, and I appreciate so much that you typically include that information, too! Hope you're having a great summer! I'm your neighbor! I'm right over here in Wisconsin! Thank you again!
Brenda Wallgren 🌸Excellent questions! Yes, Denser Quilting anywhere will eat up more fullness... in a single area, or in random spots, or in just the borders. 🤓... so... if every thing is flat and square and even, and you do Dense Quilting in an area, that area will SCRUNCH up, making the areas near it appear wonky. 😎... this is one of the main reasons why my FIRST Online Quilting Class teaches you to STABILIZE, then add the important DETAILS, and finally add FILLS. 😉... this is why I Burp and Fluff with each advancement, to manage and minimize the wrinkles and crinkles that develop when stitching real fabric with thread (vs the planning on computer screens or graph paper). 💗... please Subscribe and Watch as many of my FREE Hundred Helpful Quilting Videos as possible... and purchase my Online Classes at SederQuilts.com ... Schedule your very own PaolaDay Holiday.... Wisconsin is right in my neighborhood! ... and continue to ask Clarifying Questions! I love to be helpful! 😊 Thanks for stopping by! Tutoluu!🌸
Judith Thorpe you are so welcome, my dear! I truly do like to be helpful. Especially for the newbies 🎉 there are so many tricks to learn.. try as many as you can, and find what you like. 🌸If you click the thumbs up, this video will be saved to your liked videos, making it easier to find again... or if you subscribe to my channel, you will be notified when I post new videos. I posted several tips on Facebook this week that you might enjoy, too. I’m listed as SederQuilts there as well.
I always wonder about fixing clients quilts, I see it as an opportunity for me to explain to them why they have too much fabric in their borders. I used to fix my clients quilts but I was getting too many with problems which meant I was spending too much un billable time on clients quilts.
Kay Marl 🌸 I have found out the hard way that not everyone wants helpful hints... at least not right away... if you notice it right away, while the client is still there, you can ask casually ...or offer gently ...that you have a few tricks to make things appear their best... and then, depending on their response... and the degree of difficulty... you can offer a quick free tip (or inexpensive first lesson... now or another day) or ask if they want to undo and redo a border seam, or have you do it... etc... 🎉it might go better to have these chats after they already love your magical abilities 😉 Be a blessing and offer encouragement! That’s my motto!💗 Tutoluu!🌸
Terrie Olsen 💗Thank you! I’m glad you find my Quilty Stuff helpful!🌸I have Latex/Rubber allergy and severe sensitivities to lots of other stuff... so I covered the handle grips with cotton socks! I sometimes wear a mask or gloves too, if the quilts have fabric softener or air freshener smells.😷 Relax, turn on some happy music, 💃Wiggle your arms, 🤓Breathe and Enjoy your Quilting!🥰 Tutoluu!🌸
Excellent question!! You may certainly remove the extra belly bar! (I keep mine handy underneath the frame most of the time.) I do really like to utilize that extra bar for Loading the Back Fabric with Leader Grips, so I get my exercise moving the bar up and down to the floor again. Here's the link to another video of mine, showing you how to use Small Magnets with Handles to load smooth happy backs: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8qroe8H-Bp8.html and Here's the link to buy a Set of Three Small Magnets (order two sets, you're gonna love them!) www.sederquilts.com/https:/www.sederquilts.com/shop/tools/908/ Thanks for watching and commenting!! Tutoluu!
Cross My Quilt 🌸Welcome to the fun of Longarm Quilting! I hope you continue to enjoy my helpful videos! Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss an episode! 🌸
Excellent question!! I come from a utilitarian quilting background, so yes, I've used lots of sheets over the years. Nowadays I quilt for hire and use what the client brings. I certainly prefer quilt shop quality wide backs (108" wide), but there are oodles of good options. Thanks for watching!! Tutoluu!
I have a question. What do you do when you know the quilt is straight to the frame and you baste down the sides to keep it square and get to the bottom and its longer on the ends than in the middle. You cant use channel locks to baste across the bottom so what do you do?
Sandra Easthope 🌸Excellent question!🤓 As you advance the quilt each time, try to keep the piecing lines parallel to the belly bar. Often times, the bulk and lack of bulk will cause some uneven wind ups... the teensy slight difference will multiply with each advancement, but you might not notice till the end... If you keep each row as straight as possible (not perfect, but as happy as possible)... and encourage the fullness to go where you want it to be... with “patty-cake,” and “frosting on a hot cake” (those are technical terms😉 for “loving it into place”) ... you won’t end up with all of it at the end. I have a very helpful class “Fullness into Fabulous” at SederQuilts.com (on the second page of classes) full of tricks to utilize and minimize the wonkyness that appears with real fabric on a Longarm frame. 🌸 Thanks for watching, asking, and sharing SederQuilts! 💗Tutoluu!😎
🌸good catch!😉 cotton socks😂 to cover the soft grips ... due to my latex allergies and environmental sensitivities. I should probably make something cuter and more Quilty... but they work!🌸
Every time that I have tried to float a quilt the center of the quilt has pulled in at the center. I very carefully straighten the quilt and stitch the edges down as I roll the quilt. However at the end the center of the quilt is bowed in too much to suit my OCD. The quilt lays flat, everything looks good until I get toward the bottom. Again, I feel that I am not stretching but fluffing the quilt quite nicely as I go so I can't figure out what it is that I am not doing. Have any ideas?
marsha ryan 🤓My first recommendation is to watch the horizontal lines of the Quilt in relationship to the belly bar... usually the borders need to be pushed towards the back just a tad as you go. Often has to do with the bulk and lack of bulk (of seams in the pieced body. and the empty sides of the back fabric)... and the tightness of the wind up on the back bar... add in even the slightest fullness or stretch of the borders (or saving the border stitching to be turned) and it all shows up at the end with a tight center. 🤓The stitch scrunch of a dense design also exasperates (or is the correct word exaggerates? ) this situation ... 🤓The third possibly is pulling things too tight.
Great information: how about a quilt with 8 - 12 points coming into one space which makes a nice hump and it is a stack and whack? How would you quilt it and handle it?
Beverly Herren 🤓excellent question! Oodles of Option... press the points as creatively as necessary and as flat as possible... 😳whack it with a fabric wrapped 2x4 ... use a design with an open center... don’t try to stitch into that thick mess and break a needle or throw off the timing of your machine. 🎉I will put your question on our “videos to do” list... so watch for that in the future.... if I don’t get that type of quilt top in, I’ll try to make a few orphan blocks for examples 😉 Thanks so much for the great idea! See you soon! Tutoluu 🌸
Wow! I might do that too! My grips are a foam rubbery stuff and when I quilt for a long time, my hands feel tacky. Thanks for the tip and quick response! Love your videos,keep on quilting.
frekybyrd🤗 it has made it much easier for me to Quilt longer and more comfortably 🤓it’s a win win🎉 keep coming back to watch more helpful Quilting videos!
cindy skaggs 🤓Yes, those silly scissors! I’ve moved them a few times, and I have several others within reach, but I miss them terribly when they aren’t there! I’ve been trying to remember to tuck them into the handle socks so they don’t dangle in the way during filming. Thank you for reminding me. I will try to be better... There’s always room for improvement and I appreciate your suggestions!🌸
Pam Shirley oh boy... Great question! 🤓there are so many options.... this might need to be series...🌸Thanks for the suggestion and question! Stay tuned...💗
Pam Shirley load the worst side first. Deal with it right away. Gather it in a bit... (ease it in) soup cans ... draw the correct side boundaries... or use painters tape on the belly bar... spray water, steam, starch, steam... love it into place... pin it like gathering a ruffle... use piano keys... Or stretch it ever so slightly... use water and stretch it a bit with the iron. There are tricks to make it slightly more square than it is. Or... do the best you can to work with it as is. Let it be happy and wonky... Breathe and enjoy. Pretend it was pieced by your 7 year old grand child. Or your 103 year old granny. Love it. Cherish it. Finish it. Be thankful you don’t have three in a row like that. 😊🌸💗
Louise Hughes 🌸 Yes! I DO talk with my hands! 👐 My husband has always said, “If you want her to be quiet, just hold her hands!” 😂 I might be able to do a little less with my hands, but probably not. Thanks for the suggestion! 🌸Tutoluu!
