Category: Long Arm Quilting

I love the idea of making an “enders and leaders” quilt during the year. I don’t have a huge problem with threads tangling on my Juki, but I know that every time I’m clipping threads, even automatically, I’m using up thread. I’m trying hard have less waste in my quilting process and also trying to maximize my sewing time. But honestly putting little bits together and slowly seeing a quilt come to life while working on others is super fun. Here is one I finished not that long ago. Bonnie over at Quiltville has a lot of info on Ender…

While I really love my Juki 2010Q for piecing quilts (it really does the best quarter inch seam), I don’t love it for quilting. It does totally fine straight line quilting, but when I start to free motion quilt things go haywire. I’m pretty sure somewhere along the way (I’ve had the machine about a dozen years) I messed up something and it seems I always have strange loops and skipped stitches. I want to admit it also could be the random fabric I use – not always plain quilting cotton. I often reuse clothing and I love vintage (and…