3 Tips for Quilting with Knit Fabrics! Quilting a Baby Clothes Quilt with Leah Day
Leah Day is finally turning her baby, Betty's, clothes into a quilt and she's learning a lot about quilting with knit fabrics. She shares 3 great tips for quilting your onesie quilt successfully in this quilting for beginners video!
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Leah Day
Leah Day is an online quilting teacher and founded LeahDay.com in 2009. She teaches quilting online via free YouTube videos and is also a dealer for Grace longarm machines and frames. Her mission is to empower and encourage quilters of all skill levels learn to make beautiful quilts.
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Chapters
- 0:00Need tips for quilting knit fabrics?
- 0:15We're quilting Betty's Baby Clothes Quilt!
- 0:26Quick review on piecing this onesie quilt
- 0:40Mistakes I made machine quilting this quilt top
- 0:58Tip 1 - Use a Batting!
- 1:51Tip 2 - Don't use a Weird Backing!
- 2:24Tip 3 - Minimal Quilting on Knit Fabric Quilts
- 2:50How to Select Your Batting
- 3:25What I used for machine quilting this baby quilt
- 4:25Betty loves her baby clothes quilt!
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Leah Day is finally turning her baby, Betty's, clothes into a quilt and she's learning a lot about quilting with knit fabrics. She shares 3 great tips for quilting your onesie quilt successfully in this quilting for beginners video!
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The tutorial video is 00:04:41.
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Video Transcript
1. Make sure you use batting in the middle! Even if you use flannel for foundation piecing, you'll want more bulk to make the quilting process easier.
2. Don't add anything extra weird! The knits are hard enough to work with - adding minky to the background will make that even more difficult. So stick with what you know, cotton fabric.
3. You'll want to make this one more open in quilting - dense quilting will cause the fabrics to stretch, so pick a somewhat more minimal design.
