This is the quilt from Kimberley, I’ve been referring to and when the quilter gave me the size, we both realized that it was too big for my frame. She offered to unpick one border but me, with my big mouth, said let me give it a go and I did.
The first
problem I encountered was that with the ruler base on, the machine could not
reach the edges of the quilt, so I had to remove that, meaning ‘no ruler work
at all’. Then I didn’t have enough space
to the sides to add the side clamps which keeps the backing taught and prevents
pleats and puckers.
So off I
went, quilting with one hand while the other kept the backing taught, it was NO
fun at all. I however needed to put
circles in the centre of the star-shaped blocks and after doing most of the
free-motion quilting, I unzipped the quilt, put the ruler base back on and
quilted perfect circles with a template.
Luckily these were not at the edges.
This quilt
just had so many different areas and it was back and forth rolling all the time,
changing modes and changing thread colours but I did it and vowed to NEVER
again quilt another too big for my frame.
Pictures in
no particular order. This added up to 17
hours and 46 minutes of quilting.
Backing
Brown steps
Cream steps
Curvy lines
Completed
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