Basting Down the Top and Sides

hey everyone welcome back it's Adam with Adam so fun this is the quilt that I loaded up in my loading video today I want to show you how I go about finishing this loading it up and getting it ready so I can start stitching I use a plumb line too when I first laid this out so I'm going to stitch a plumb line which is going to stitch only the backing and the batting and it's gonna I'm gonna use my channel locks that are in my pro stitcher and I'm gonna stitch a straight line all the way across so then I can lift up my quilt I have a straight line so that's why I always joke that only one side of my quilt is straight because this straight edge of this quilt is going to be laid right up onto that straight line and I'm going to be able to stitch it down and I know that this at least this edge is straight this quilt I know is not straight because I measured it before I put it on like I said I always measure them but let's get to it alright so I am going to personal preference just me I like to baste with my stitches at 5 stitches an inch we there are basting stitches in this you can do a quarter inch a half inch one inch two inches and four inches the thing with basting in these machines is when you're in the basting function function or using those basting stitches you can't stop needle down and I always like to stop needle down I don't know why again it's just a personal preference so if I pop that up to five stitches an inch I can still stop needle down so if I'm going across I can stop especially when I'm sewing the top of this on but um I don't know I guess that just gives me some more stability or makes me more comfortable alright I just changed my I've to change my tension because I was using some monofilament thread in the last project and I just traded it out for some tri-level poly so I'm gonna select 72 that's my forty weight thread kind of my median range for that on the Infinity I can just I program in some presets so whenever I change threads in and out I can just hit that preset and it sets it for me now I'm going to use the channel locks that are in the they come with the pro stitcher for this you can see I hit this little green button right here there it's the lock with the right and left it also selects it in my pro stitcher screen so first thing I'm I have it locked I'm going to make sure that if I come all the way to the right then it goes it's looking good it's where I want it and I'm about an inch down from the edge of my batting and about two inches from those pins and I like that so I'm going to come over here on the side needle Dale needle up you can see that I don't have my side clamps on yet I'm not going to put them on yeah I'm going to do that after I base down the front of this so I did that I'm gonna hit my star button which is the tile function on my machine I can hit start and I hold it a little bit at the beginning [Music] now I try not to fuss with things too much I don't want to fuss with my daddy too much because if I if I'm sliding my hand over my batting and I do it sometimes but if I haven't got that valley and quite straight it will shift it and kind of move it and I'll get a little bit of a pleat usually it's small so I don't worry about it too much especially if it's gonna be up near this basting line but so I've got all the way to the end and I'm going to pull up my bobbin thread so what I'm gonna do is I give myself a good yank of thread after my pigtail but before my needle and I'm going to move my machine over I let that go because now that extra is here I don't like to pull that tension through my needle and I'm going to slide my machine back so I turn off my channel lock just so I don't move it front and back just in case I spot I just let the Machine back to where I took that last stitch I have my finger in all my excess I'm going to needle down needle up and move away again so now it's brought up my bobbin thread it's brought I have my top thread and I moved it far away so now my thread tail is a good six to eight inches and I can snip this all right there and I don't have anything hanging sometimes I'll just pull it over the side and snip it but then I have threads hanging it I don't like those because they will get stuck into your wheels so now I have this this nice basted straight line I do this is a little saggy for me so I'm going to do a few more clicks to tighten up that back get my machine out of the way again there's some threads here so I'm going to pop those off I keep a big cottage-cheese container that was from Costco I washed it and this is so light I can leave this up on the machine especially if I'm free motion quilting and this is my scrap bucket so usually it's sitting up here but obviously you can't while you're going to load and unfortunately for those of you have the Amara and the Forte you know you have that little magnetic piece right here we don't have that so I have a command hook that holds my scissors I'm going to take my top and remember we left a lot of slack like this top goes up almost the full width of my throat because I don't want to have to pull some out especially now that there's batting there you know pulling fabric over batting and then it starts pulling about anything stretch so I have this all in here and I'm going to lay it right on that plumb line now if this weren't quite as straight as as it is I know the top is straight I know the sides aren't straight but if I had some so a little bit of fullness not a ton but if I just had a little bit I could grab my pin cushion that's not here but I do have a pin right here in the center but I could get some pins and I would just pin this in maybe here I don't pin it too close to the edge and you'll see why in a second but I could throw some pins in there and that will is one extra layer it's gonna hold everything hold everything talk while I go now I load the top with my the handi quilter versa tool you can see on the machine that it has the ruler base on it it has the shirt foot on it there's a hundred ways to do again hundreds to do everything this way I like to it I use my my versa tool because it has this straightedge and it has these little holders so it will hold the quilt down as I stitch from point A to point B it has a line an edge line here to here where the needle is going to connect that line so I can get this really close to the edge and I like probably about an eighth of an inch and this helps hold everything down well I stitch and I noticed that when I finger walk I kind of finger walk at a diagonal and I was shifting the quilt top over a little it so this is what I found works a little bit better for me so I'm gonna change the setup and I'll see you right back here in a second all right so we're back I'm using a different color thread so you can see it but not thinking you can't really see it here but I wonder if I let me turn these lights off really quick you might be able to see that line here's my stitch line so here's my straight plumb line my top is laid right onto that so now I'm pumping those lights back on so you can see so now I'm gonna come over and try not to do this I obstruct the camera so I'm in a needle down needle up in that corner and bring up my bobbin all right and so I come back Hammond sometimes they take a few stitches I this is if you don't have the top feature and then I pick a few stitches and then I tie off here's my threads I'm gonna leave these here for now I will come back and cut them later but you can see my ruler base I have my sure foot have my versa tool if you can hear the thumping in the background that's my dog's upstairs running around so now I have this line I'm going to drop this here I can see my dash lines now remember if you're using a ruler and you can't read what the ruler says that means your ruler is upside down I'm still in five stitches an inch I'm still stopping needle down so I can move over stop I'm always stopping my machine when I move my ruler and you can see that the sides want to pull because they aren't clamped down yet as you get more towards the center that's gonna even itself out and it will stop there's a little bit of a bump there this can also be used if it's not a straight edge maybe there was a little dip in that edge you could use it and kind of push your fabric up if you need to all right so I'm continuing all the way across I'm not trying to win any races at this point because remember this is the only edge of my quilt that I know that is gonna be straight now when I get to the end here I leave my needle down so now I have everything sewn down all right so I stopped my needle down I we have all this extra because I gave myself extra so I wasn't having to fight at that front edge so now I can fold all this extra up just kind of get it out of the way I will come lock my ratchets and I can roll this so my back is taut my top is taut now I can get my versa tool and Stitch down the side [Applause] again I I like to use a versatile because it keeps my fingers out of the way I tend to do things a little bit fast and sewing over my finger fast isn't gonna make it not hurt any less so sometimes at this point I put my side clamps on sometimes I don't it just depends on how I feel I'm like how fast I'm trying to get through something one day and that day I do always stitch my sides down and I've been reading I usually stitch from the top to the I just stitch from here to the bottom but I did see something that said if you stitch from the bottom to the top that it makes it a little bit easier to control the some fullness if you have some fullness I'm just let's see let's do it I'm just trying to keep my thread in that quarter inch seam allowance so again there's my I'm going my versatile all the way my needles yeah I want to pull up my bobbin so I'm going to pull some slack move my machine out of the way a good six to eight inches grab that slack and come back needle down needle up in that last stitch move that away and you can see here's my bobbin thread here's my top thread I've made a long enough tail under the quilt because now a bobbin tells this long there's my top and when I go to pull up my bobbin on my next row whenever I start quilting everything's gonna be perfect so um this is when I would put on my side clamps and go to the pro stitcher to set up my design and that will be another video all right so that's basting down the quilt I will I will if I were pretty machine this I would promotion this advance so my next section base down my sides and then continue to go I hope you learned something maybe the versatile trick is something that you want to try because you weren't a big fan of finger press or finger walking some people use channel locks so then they know that is straight I just find that I like using the versa to a little more um so if you're perfectionist maybe channel locks cuz then you know that edge is gonna be perfectly straight this is just this is just the way I do it so thank you for joining me remember you can find me at Adam so fun calm Adam so fun on Instagram and Facebook shoot me out some questions if you have them I'm always happy to help and we'll see you soon bye

Channel: Adam Sew Fun

Views: 5,179

Rating: 4.9375 out of 5

Keywords: pro-stitcher, pro stitcher, Adam sew fun, adamsewfun, handiquilter, loading a quilt, basting a quilt

Id: cwjEjRB2iZs

Length: 14min 30sec (870 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 30 2020