How to Prepare Your Quilt Top for Long-Arm Service


-Top of Quilt Clip: all of the threads that poke through the quilt top.

-Top of Quilt Iron: quilt top to achieve flat a uniformed design.  "Pressing" will prevent fabric being stretched out of its original shape.  Use spray starch, a spray bottle with water, or the steam setting on your iron, which ever method you prefer. Having a quilt that lays flat, is the goal so that the Long-Arm Quilter can give you the best results possible.

-Back of Quilt Top Inspect: Quilts tops need to have their backs inspected, so turn them over and look to see if the back of your pieced quilt top needs some attention too.  Quilt backs consisting of lots of threads can be clipped and seams can be ironed flat on the back of your quilt top, for a better pleasing finished result from the quilting process. 

-Top of Quilt Top Lint: Use a lint brush or lint-tape roller to remove animal hair, loose threads, lint, etc. from the fabric quilt top.

-Backing Fabric Prep:  In order to "load" your quilt on the long-arm quilting frame for quilting, there needs to be at least an extra 4 inches of backing fabric on all 4 sides to attach the backing fabric to the quilt frame.  This is very important in supporting the quilt to the long-arm quilting frame and helps with "squaring up" the quilt. 

-Batting:  You are welcome to bring your own batting with you.  Please do not bring 100% polyester.  I usually carry wide-width-batting so please as what I am currently carrying.

 

Every Quilt deserves to be finished!  Let me help you finish your quilting projects.

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