smerrill Posted June 19, 2011 Report Share Posted June 19, 2011 Does anyone have any ides for me. I am quilting a t-shirt quilt with wiil batting, as I get in to the t-shirts I am getting puckers. It really seems extra bulky. would it be helpful to raise my hopping foot and if so how would I do that? I am new to this forum so i hope this goes through I could use the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newmillie2010 Posted June 19, 2011 Report Share Posted June 19, 2011 are the t-shirts stabilized? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerrill Posted June 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2011 Yes, but some of them look like they are still a little stretchy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newmillie2010 Posted June 19, 2011 Report Share Posted June 19, 2011 i use a woven fusible stabilizer, making sure that the non-stretchy width lays with the stretch in the t-shirt, if that makes sense. i want to minimize that t-shirt stretch as much as possible. and in thinking about your issue, i realized that i do not do a t-shirt next to another t-shirt. i always have sashing or a cotton fabric block next to the t-shirt blocks. so i don't get a stretchy block butted up against another stretchy block. make sense? and then i put on a 2-3 inch inner border before i put on a wider border. just the way i do it. others will step in here as soon as they get back from treating those father's to their father's day dinners! post a pic if you can demonstrating your puckers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerrill Posted June 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2011 Thank you for the great information, the quilt does have sashing around each t-shirt. I seem to have a lot of drag while quilting. Dawn at APQS was able to email directions on raising my hopping foot I will see if that helps my problem. I was just glad to get any kind of reponse knowing that it was Fathers day. And I just needed to walk away from the project to put my head on straight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFQuilts Posted June 20, 2011 Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 I've done plenty of t-shirt quilts, with and without sashing. It sounds like the stabilizer used on this quilt may have been ironed on with the 'stretch' of the stabilizer in the same direction as the 'stretch' of the t-shirt material. Regardless, I agree that you need to raise your hopping foot. If you have the manual for the machine, the info on raising the hopping foot is in there. Good luck and don't be too frustrated. This should be an easy fix. Lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerrill Posted June 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 Thanks Lynn I needed your encouraging words. I took the night off and thought about my problem. I will raise the hopping foot tonight and see what I come up with. I am not wrong in thinking its OK to stitch through the t-shirts am I? I just can't be frogging them anymore. Or I'll have to buy a really cool patch for the customer to put in that spot. Shirley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted June 20, 2011 Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 Shirley, If the t-shirts have a lot of that rubbery letters or decals that could be causing your problem. Not sure really how to solve that problem completely. The last one I did I had to slow down and held my hand on it to further stabilize it. I wonder if putting press-n-seal over it would help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay Anderson Posted June 20, 2011 Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 When the decals are "rubbery" I place a bit of the golden threads tissue paper over that area, quilt, then tear it off. The paper keeps your hopping foot from draging on the decal. Helps me anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerrill Posted June 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 Those are great ideas, I could see a tissue paper like product might elimimate the grab on the t-shirt. This quilt was suppose to be my easy project after having just finished a big quilt. So much for my thinking. I have been learning something on every quilt I quilt. It has been fun. Shirley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmland Quilter Posted June 20, 2011 Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 Thanks for the tissue paper idea. I, too, have a t-shirt quilt coming up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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