![]() That’s all I started with, and it gets the job done. Let’s be clear – all you really need for machine quilting is a quilt sandwich, whatever thread you currently have in your machine, and a sewing machine. Baste well and your quilting will be much smoother and easier! You can find a full basting tutorial for pins and spray here. Once your quilt sandwich is smooth and ready to go, the first step is to get your tools ready. Successful machine quilting mainly lies in the preparation of your quilt sandwich. I hope to encourage you to machine quilt your own quilts too! It makes it much easier to quilt with the speed and space! For this tutorial, I’m using my baby Geode quilt top as an example ( pattern available here), as we draw towards the end of the Geode QAL. I now have a super fats, straight-stitch only Brother machine with a 9″ throat space. So I won’t accept any excuses about how small or inadequate your sewing machine is, because with time and practice, anything is possible! My Aurora sampler quilt would have be to be the crowning achievement of that baby sewing machine. That tiny Elna 1000 (with it’s throat space of less than 6″) ended up free motion quilting larger quilts of up to full throw size. ![]() I then ventured into adding batting, but using the same process to sandwich it all together, and then adding some “straight” lines along the seams at an attempt at machine quilting.īut oh how wrong was I! Over the following year, thanks to the internet, I began to self-teach myself how to machine quilt on my little domestic sewing machine. ![]() Machine quilting seemed like a daunting step! I mean, I just had a baby Elna 1000, surely I couldn’t quilt at home on my domestic sewing machine? My first couple of (baby) quilts simply had the pieced top and flannel as the backing, which I stitched right-sides together, flipped it out, and top stitched around the edge. For the first few quilts I ever made, I technically didn’t even quilt them.
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