Advancing the Quilt – Getting Started with HQ Simply Sixteen

Wow one-pass I'm ready to go with my second pass so we need to take our clamps off which means release the quilt from the frame back in there release it here and now I want to start back on the left side of the quilt so I'm going to do the same thing again move shift the quilt down and they can shift that under the needle there but I need to now move it forward so I'm going to go ahead and put that clamp in and lock it into place on this bar give myself enough throat space now I need to put a clamp here but I here's my quilting area so I need to pull that forward I can see that I've got enough space there because I kind of interlocked it put my first clamp on making sure I have enough space on this side and place that clamp straight up there okay I can go ahead and pull this quilt and down pull it up as high as I can get it so that I can get to my stitching clamp that in and tighten it up now with my clamps I can go ahead and tension those up and I can put one clamp right here and then tension this over here and then my next clamp I can put right here but the one thing that I do want to do is I've got this quilt flapping in the way so I need to figure out what to do with that I've got clamps for that I've got what we call C clamps so I'm going to go ahead and roll that on there and I can go ahead and tension that on to the quilt and that manages the quilt up there so that now I can start stitching again okay we're not done we've got some more to teach you today so I can feel there's a bump here and as I want to as I quilt I feel that and I don't want that I need this to have a smooth flow let me show you what you don't do first of all it came with three more clamps so when there's just a small amount of quilt here rather than put these large quilt clamps on and it's bumping that's where it's bumping we are going to use the small clamps so when I use this small clamp and clamp it to the pole it won't bump against the throat of the machine so we'll take this off so when your quilt gets to the bottom that's when you want to use these because then it'll roll around a lot of quilt but for these small ones this is going to manage this right all the way I think we'll put this one right here between those two clamps that manages that and it's not going to hit the throat space of your machine now it's time to quilt so go ahead and move our big clamps and take that one off because I don't think I'm going to need it and we're ready to go let's quilt

Channel: Handi Quilter

Views: 19,652

Rating: 4.9344263 out of 5

Keywords: Handi Quilter, Longarm, Quilting, HQ Simply Sixteen, HQ Little Foot frame

Id: YjQfubxjUCs

Length: 4min 18sec (258 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 17 2015