Preparing your quilt for quilting

Piecing

  • Press all seams accordingly as you are piecing. 
  • If they do not lay flat, this will cause folds and bunching on the top of your quilt. Puckers, tucks, and fullness cannot be quilted out.  
  • Make sure all seams are secure.  
  • Clip all loose/long thread tails on the front and back of quilt top. Dark threads may shadow under lighter fabrics.  
  • Twisted seams cause bulk which may cause a bump in your quilt.
  • Avoid twisted seams by pressing to one side and alternating the direction with each row.  
  • If you have borders, try to make them lie flat. Wavy borders could result in small puckers.  
  • If your quilt is designed to have rounded edges, please wait until after the quilting is completed before rounding.
  • Remove all pins.
  • If the quilt top is directional, please mark the top with a safety pin and a note.

Borders

  • Your quilt should be as square as possible.
  • We will center and square the top to the machine and backing fabric as best as possible.
  • We take every effort to keep your top straight by following the lines of your quilt top.

Backing

  • Backing needs to be 6" to 8" longer in length and width than the quilt top (3" to 4" all around).
  • Example a 60" x 60" top would have a backing that is 68" x 68".
    • The additional backing is required for fastening the backing to the longarm frame.  
    • If seaming your backing, sometimes it helps stay stronger if you shorten your stitch length and use a 1" seam width, and press the backing seam open OR to one side.
    • If your backing is directional be sure to mark which end is the top.
    • We will do the best we can, but because as we quilt, the material shrinks a little, so we cannot guarantee your backing will be perfectly centered.
    • We will do our best to center your backing but this is not always possible. when piecing your backing consider an off-center design.

Embellishments

  • Please wait to put embellishments like beads, or buttons on until after the quilting is complete.
  • If your top or back does have any embellishments we can "mask" them( quilt around), each mask is $ 7 extra.
  • Prairie points should be added after quilting. if added before they will get sewn down in the quilting process.

Longarm quilting price list

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