Jaimie’s “Lucy Quilt” + Design of the Week

Hello,
I hope you are having a great week!! I am excited to share with you this cute quilt that Jaimie made!!

This is called the Lucy quilt by Cottoneer. It is a free quilt pattern when you sign up for their email list.

I love the contrast of the colors, black and white fabrics!

I used bamboo batting from Winline, which is so wonderful!! I also used white Omni thread from Superior Threads.

I created some Lined designs, one of which I used. If you’re a longarm quilter, and you’ve tried quilting lines back and forth, then you know about the possibility of thread breaks. Machines don’t love quilting from right to left and the thread likes to break or shred. There are some great tips like…turning the needle to a 5:30 position and having just the right speed as it’s quilting out. A new tip, which I got from Kaitlyn at Knot and Thread, is to spray your thread with water. She said to get your spool pretty wet to start and then spray it good again each time you roll the quilt. This was a huge help for me. I heard another quilter say that Glide thread really helps them with thread breaks. I shared these tips in a highlight bubble on my Instagram, as I was quilting this quilt. Check it out!! I typically have 3-5 breaks per line, and ended up having 5-6 in an entire section…which is a big difference. My machine is definitely temperamental. Play around with those tips for machine, and figure out what is best for you!

The reason the design goes back and forth, is so that it can quilt out an entire section without stopping. I have quilted many quilts where I quilt one line at a time. Which takes a lot of time and wastes more thread.

Jaimie also asked me to bind her quilt for her. I see one side on with the sewing machine, and then hand stitch the other side.

I used my Lined 1/2” design for this one. I also have a Lined 1/4”, Lined 3/4”, and a Lined 1” available in my shop. All the details are listed in each individual design. These are also the Design of the Week!! All four are already marked 20% off, no code necessary, until Wednesday of next week.

Okay…so this is important!! During design setup before you quilt, you want the design to look like the one above, not below. There should be no vertical lines. On the Gammill Statler that I quilt on, there is a box checked for the “maintain aspect” option when I’m setting up the design. You’ll want to uncheck that. The width of the design should be the width of your quilt boundary with no repeats, and then the height of the design must be the height that I share in each of the individual design descriptions. For example, this Lined 1/2” design must be set at 11.5” height in order to get a 1/2” spacing between each row. I have had requests for a line design that quilts back and forth, for years. This is what I’ve done to make it possible. Setup options may be a little different on your machine, but I’m sure the concept is similar.

Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great week! - Leisha