A brave quilter having decided she’d be willing to make memory quilts for others using fabric worn by their loved ones made this quilt.
As pretty
as it looks, it caused major problems with the quilting. The denim seams were simply too thick to
stitch over. With a long arm machine, one
can adjust the height of the foot but when I did, the foot was too high for the
shirt fabrics and caused long, skipped stitches.
Travelling
with a line of stitching from the shirt fabric over the denim was simply
impossible. When the foot got to the
denim it would push everything to the side I am moving to, causing a huge
bump. I had to then start and stop to be
able to at least quilt the shirt fabric.
Although
not impossible, the choices for quilting such a quilt will always be limited to
either quilting the shirt fabric or the denim.
Even if I did the shirts first, then raised the foot for the denim, the
bumps would already have been created as these appeared even whenever I got to
the end of a shirt block where the seams meet.
At least
I’ve given it a try and can now warn the quilter that this might not be the
best idea. Rather stick to one thickness
of the fabric.
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