quilter1050 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 I have a king size New York Beauty to quilt for a customer, she has painstakingly pieced the backing so that the circular medallion (on the front) will fit into pieced squares on the back. She marked the center lines horizontal and vertical with large basting stitches. I have never tried to place a top section onto a specific backing section before. If I quilt the center medallion first, then work to sides or top or whatever would be best, would this be the way to go? I have never started in the center before. Are there any tricks or tips you could share or suggest ?? or a different avenue altoghter?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renae Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 I have never done one like that before either. Maybe if you basted everything first so it doesn't move then start your quilting. Would that help your problem any? Maybe Claudia....Myrna....or Dawn will jump in here and give you some good advice because I'm just guessing. But to me, I would make sure it was very stable before I started quilting if she has a specific area she wants the medallion to fit in on the backing. It's just my 2 cents worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Renae Haddadin does this and teaches it in her technicalities class. You would have to baste it together, lining it up by matching top with back. I would use my needle up/down and baste in 1" stitches. I'd match the center, then line up the next section and so on until you have it all basted together. Then quilt it. It will be tricky and take some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 I would run the other direction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilter1050 Posted July 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Thanks friends for the replies and thoughts. I think Mary Beth may be right on. Anyway, it is a pill I must swallow. Heidi may have a great suggestion about basting from center out first. Myrna, Claudia others, just jump right in. Thanks to everyone's reply. SM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewlinzi Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Depends how big...If it's not too big like less than 50" square - I'm a very lazy quilter so I sew the top and sides down 1/8th inch, work on the centre with fancy stuff then carry on attaching sides as I go down and finally get bottom of quilt sewn on then I can roll it backwards and forwards as much as I like cos you can't roll back if you go too far down with stitching until the bottom of the Q is sewn Then I can complete all the small filler. Now, this works for me because I quilt most things to death but I don't know what would happen if you were going to be more traditional and do less quilting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smorris Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Hi everyone, I'm doing something like this right now. The quilt measures 94x64. I put the long sides on the rollers marking the edges in the centre longways and width ways with pins. Then I put a pin in the centre edges longways and widthways of the top. Typically quilting will shrink the quilt up about 2% so I lay the quilt top on the backing and batting matching up the pins on both and then moved the top up (towards the top edge of the batting by 1%. I'm on the last row and it looks like I will be very close to being centred. This will always be guesswork though because you need to take into account the thickness of the batting and the density of the quilting and I'm not quilting from the centre out, I just quilt as normal from the top down. Good luck Sue in Australia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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