‘Learn How To’ Hand Quilt with Sandie Lush | Award Winning Hand Quilter | Welsh Quilts

I've got a cheaper nasty thimble underneath nice and smooth because I'm going to slide the needle along it and I've got one with decent simple dimples on the top because I need it to hold the needle. That underneath thimble goes right up against the fabric before I start because I'm going to put the needle onto it I am NOT going to put the needle in and dig around underneath trying to find it. So onto the needle and I'm gonna transfer the grip and now balance the needle between the two thimbles. I'm going to bring my thumb forward which helps with the rocking motion. I'm going to lever the needle back push the thimble towards the needle and I'm going to push th e needle it comes off the e dge of the thimble. It doesn't matter if I haven't started at the edge of the thimble because I'm pushing the thimble, eventually the needle will come off anyway I'm going to tap the needle because if I if I push it hard I'm going to get a big stitch so I'm only going to tap it as I want smaller stitches move the thimble back put the needle in and do it again and again and possibly again and I can look at them on the needle to see if they're okay. That gap is a little bit bigger than the others but you won't notice when I've pulled them all through so I'm going to go with it anyway. Now I'm going to turn it around and I'm going to slide the needle down to the next bit. Now while my friend here has the camera I'll show you another trick. Sometimes you can't get the needle all the way to where you want to go and there are limits to how much you can do this but if you bring the needle in a little bit further than you want to go don't pull it all the way through only keep the eye in turn the need around 180 degrees and then pop it up where you want it and then you've gone from A to B and you've got nothing on the front and you also haven't got a big stitch on the back. That's called traveling that is the one thing you can do by hand that you can't do on a sewing machine yeah and now I'm back here I can go back and I can do a little bit more they're better than they were. So if I just leave that there for now - it's practice because it isn't sewing. - it's getting the motion. Yeah it's doing two things because what's happening is you're putting the needle in, you're pushing the needle that way, but you're pushing the thimble that way. That's why it comes up. This thimble is making a barrier to prevent the needle traveling to a point. So this is the one that actually governs the gaps, because if it's not there the needle keeps traveling underneath. So this one does the gaps and this one pushing needle actually makes the stitches. If your gaps are bigger than your stitches it's much much easier to push that needle a bit further and make a bigger stitch than it is to try and figure out how to help to make the gaps a bit smaller. if you can get them even it doesn't matter how big they are with practice they will get smaller, okay, but even counts for more than tiny. But this is what's happening underneath. There's a thimble, needle goes onto it, as I lever the needle back I'm starting to push the thimble and I push the needle and it comes off. So it's this one that's doing the work, okay. But if you can't get on with these, there is one called the Comfort Thimble, it's quite big it's white on top and it has blue rubber around the outside and it stretches over knobbly knuckles. It hasn't got any metal in it and it is actually very comfortable and that's good for on top but it's no good under. - "What do you use for marking your quilts out?" - Watercolour pencil. I'll do the writing the right way. The one I'm working on is marked with that. The pink thread is actually blending with the markings so you won't be able to see them afterwards, but it'll wash out. On my Satin it comes out straight out with cold water because the satin's shiny, if it's cotton it might need a bit of soap, but that one was done with brown. This one's done with pink. I mainly use pink brown and blue. Because it's light you can get the needle through it nicely, it's a natural so it breathes, so it's nice to sleep under and it's good for babies it's not going to make them hot and sweaty. It's as good to machine quilt as it is to hand quilt and there are very few waddings you can say that about. Normally you have to decide 'is this going into my sewing machine or am I going to do it by hand'. I don't think they're any bad waddings out there, what you is sort out which ones are good for the technique that you're going to use. But any bit left over from this, you can felt it, you can dye it, or you can do all sorts of other things with it. I have a quilting friend who's now retired who used this and she dyed it and it actually became part of the outside of the quilt. She had the wadding outside of the two layers of fabric and it changed color with the dye that she'd done on it so it actually made part of her art quilt. There's all sorts of things you can do with it. You can't do that with the polyester it's what it is but it is nice to hand quilt, okay. You can get the Hobbs Polydown in the show but I've only seen Hobbs Tuscany Wool and that is slightly thicker than the Heirloom. The Heirloom is the nicest and if you're going to buy it you can buy it by the meter, but its actually thinner and nicer if you buy the prepackaged stuff. Trouble is only comes Queen and King so what you do is to get a crowd of mates and you buy it and you cut it up and share it around. I get six cot quilts out of a queen sized piece yeah, and given I've just made I've made 26 quilts I've actually got through quite a few Queen sized pieces. But wadding's just a minefield. - "What size needles do you use?"- Size 10 - size 10 - yeah. There you go, available from The Crafty Quilter and Contented Cat. Very nice. They are rolls-royce needles, they are beautifully sharp and they don't bend easily. Yeah, yeah, but actually a between is short and stubby it's supposed to be strong because when you do that with it, between the quilt, a lon g one bends and a fine one bends. I'm going to move it now, and come back the other way. I'm going to finish off this so you can see how to finish off as well - yes please - sorry, getting your camera range - the hoops got a life of its own this morning. There you go. "Thank you for Watching" - Katie from Arnold's Attic

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Length: 10min 2sec (602 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 31 2020