Quilting 2.0
Today’s sewing machines are sophisticated embedded systems with exacting precision, automated stitch control, and touch-screen interfaces:
Photo: Brother International
My Aunt Yetta sewed quilts—and most of her family’s clothes—on an antique treadle sewing machine that was powered by her foot.
The next 50 years of technological innovation added electricity and the zigzag stitch—and that was fine.
One Brother model’s LCD offers a “needle’s-eye view” that lets a quilter line up the work exactly; precision is an important consideration for many quilting techniques. (One look at my own wandering quilting rows shows why.) Other features recognize the distance between the seam line and the edge of the fabric, even on gentle curves. Quilters care about quarter-inch seams because even slight inaccuracies in quilt blocks, of which there may be hundreds, compound themselves across a quilt that’s three meters wide.
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Ǩhalil Koros
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Mostafa Dafer
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Paddy
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I think what you have is wonderful! I do all kinds of picieng and my Aunt does the quilting for me. I take an idea all the time and run with it, idea being where I start. Nothing I have ever made ends up like what the picture looked like to start with. They are far more fabulous in my and the reciepients mind. The first true quilt I made, the class instructor thought I was unsaine with what I chose for fabric. Well, it turned out great and even she had to admit it was nice after all. That was a lot of years ago now, but many quilts later, I am still told I should follow the rules, and so should my quilter. But neither of us do and we both have great sewing businesses. So keep stitching and loving every minute of it!
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