I’ve been working on a signature quilt that will be presented Thursday for the past 4 or 5 days. Putting the top together was quick. Machine quilting it has been a nightmare! To be fair, I’m not really set up to do machine quilting on anything much larger than a table runner. A Featherweight table is perfect for piecing and cutting but for machine quilting? Not quite wide enough.
The signature quilt is about 60 by 70 and really was a challenge to work with. I was only quilting straight lines on it, but manipulating the quilt sandwich when I changed directions was unbelievable. Having to hold it so as to reduce the drag caused by the weight of it was frustrating. If I’m going to do more machine quilting (and at this point that’s a big if), I have got to figure out a better set-up!
Later today the binding goes on and then my favourite part — tacking down the binding. Pictures will be posted as soon as it’s finished.
Quilt Obsession 
I hear you! I enjoy quilting smaller projects on the machine. Any quilt larger than a wall hanging can be quite the headache here. I’m determined to master it someday.
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Oh lordy bee, I don’t want to fight with this stuff either – painful. I’m sure you’re right though – a user-friendly set up would make the whole thing better.I let you do that and see how it works out before I try. “hee”
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I love tacking down the binding, too!
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