Mid-Arm Sewing Machine

I recently had a friend come over and she was extremely surprised by the fact that none of my machines are automated right everything that I do I actually move under a stationary needle nothing nothing a thing I don't have the type of machines where you just put it in and you know the Machine does it for you so I wanted to kind of show what that looks like and how we actually quilt a quilt right so what is a quilt a quilt is essentially a pieced right top which is all these small pieces of fabrics pieced together in order to create the top right and then you have the batting which is you know this puffy stuff in the middle that's a nice soft texture and then you have the back which obviously is the back of the quilt so anyways I wanted to just quickly show people some of the process of you know how we do this so this machine here is called a midden and it's called that it's called a sweet-16 because of the throat size of the machine is 16 inches from from here to here thus allowing you to move much more material through this part here right so when you're dealing with really large quilts like this one which is a king size it's very important to have that as much room as you can from the needle which is here right through to the back of the machine so that you can move an entire large quilt through it anyhow that's kind of the basis of it and I wanted to show you just a little bit about how I actually go through and quilt a large project hold on one second you get this all right hopefully you can see that so this is what I use is just a thick plastic ruler a template I have other shapes that I use as well but for this one I will just use this I have these very cool gloves that I will often use I don't know where the other one is so special Michael Jackson gloves are on they again have these kind of rubber sticky pads to them allowing me to move the fabric more successfully under the needle alright so I get my thick plastic template I line it up here and then I just will go through and like that right and then just keep moving it around and line it up this ruler has grids on it so that I can kind of track where I am and so I'll just go through and do this square by square until the whole thing is done but essentially that's it and it is manually manipulating and moving the fabric under a stationary needle the entire fire scene my threat to the rope all right time to rethread then this is what it looks like when it's not quilted and this is what it looks like when it is very nice

Channel: Quilting Cowboy

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Id: KxN3kFUM6QI

Length: 3min 28sec (208 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 01 2019