It does mean that your quilt has to be washed to remove the glue but I like to wash all my quilts anyway to puff up the batting.
We use Elmer's washable school glue with Sharon Scamber's glue tips
Step 1 glue
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Step 2 stick
Step 3 adjust
Step 4- press
Step 5- Sew your perfect scant 1/4 inch seam
... on your current favourite sewing machine!
LBOW (Light Beige Oyster White) Singer 301. Only made in the US out of aluminum. It makes a perfect straight stitch, is slant shank, gear driven and the feed dogs lower for free motion quilting. It is the perfect portable quilters machine.
Once everything is glued, chain sewing is incredibly fast because you are not aligning the patches and can focus on your accurate scant 1/4 inch seam allowance and there are no pointy things to hurt yourself with!
Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteGlue basting is probably the single best technique that I've found for tricky issues. It can be used in situations where pins simply don't do the job. Likewise, it may also be used in situations in which we normally use pins, or don't use pins at all. These situations, as you say, allow us to concentrate on the seam rather than dividing our attention to both alignment and seam allowance. Also, for fabrics which are thin, the glue allows considerable stabilization.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to see a technically bad video of a situation in which I use glue, check out my YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ujL89aPZ6M
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