I am not a very good free motion quilter. Okay, I'm a terrible free motion quilter. I have taken classes and I think I am getting a bit better, but truth be told, I still suck. Frankly, who wants to spend all that time and energy creating a quilt top and ruining it with crappy free motion quilting. I envy those who do this well. It is truly an art.
After I purchased my Baby Lock Ellegante 2, which has many quilt stitches on it, I thought this would be great!! I can quilt my own quilts and have them look like a pro did the stitching. The problem: hooping a quilt. What a drag. Especially when the quilt comes unhooped from wrangling it into the machine. This happened more than I care to count. I began to cuss like a sailor.
I thought I had the answer. Sticky stabilizer!! I wouldn't have to hoop the quilt if I used sticky stabilizer!! Great concept, crappy results. First of all, that stabilizer isn't cheap. Second, if you have an intricate quilting design, you can be picking stabilizer off the back of your quilt for hours. No fun.
So, I went to my Baby Lock Dealer and asked (okay, I begged) for help to resolve this issue. There had to be a better answer. So, here it is:
This thing worked great. You can get it at your sewing machine dealer, or on Amazon for about $150. (The cost of having a full-sized quilt done by your long-arm professional). Magna Hoop use your own hoop (make sure you have the correct size as stated on the side of the box) that you can simply leave in your machine. Mark your quilting area on your quilt, slide it over the hoop, and a set of magnets placed on an acrylic frame will hold down the your quilt. I did a quilt border on a 64 X 80 quilt in the time that it had taken me to do one side in my previous, awkward hooping system. No hoop burn, nothing to pick off the back of your quilt, no cussing.
I AM IN LOVE!!!
After I purchased my Baby Lock Ellegante 2, which has many quilt stitches on it, I thought this would be great!! I can quilt my own quilts and have them look like a pro did the stitching. The problem: hooping a quilt. What a drag. Especially when the quilt comes unhooped from wrangling it into the machine. This happened more than I care to count. I began to cuss like a sailor.
I thought I had the answer. Sticky stabilizer!! I wouldn't have to hoop the quilt if I used sticky stabilizer!! Great concept, crappy results. First of all, that stabilizer isn't cheap. Second, if you have an intricate quilting design, you can be picking stabilizer off the back of your quilt for hours. No fun.
So, I went to my Baby Lock Dealer and asked (okay, I begged) for help to resolve this issue. There had to be a better answer. So, here it is:
I AM IN LOVE!!!
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