Create a Smooth Surface for Quilting with This Tip

Quilting Digest | October 27, 2017 | Quilting How-To
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It’s Inexpensive, Slippery, and There Are No Edges for the Quilt to Get Caught on!

Do you struggle with moving a quilt smoothly through your machine while free motion quilting? This solution from Laura at Sew Very Easy is inexpensive, easy to do and creates a wonderful surface for quilting.

A snow carpet, or roll-up plastic sled, can easily be used to cover your machine and table. Its slick surface causes the quilt to move easily over it. Plus, you can tape it down to your table and eliminate edges that your quilt might get caught on.

Laura shows you exactly how to do that in the following video.

Click here to watch the video at YouTube if it doesn’t play on your device.

This also works well if you can’t lower the feed dogs on your machine. Plus, when not in use, you can roll it up and put it away. It will unroll flat the next time you want to use it.

You can purchase a classic roll-up sled here.

 

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2 Comments
  1. Adrena Madden Reply

    Thank you. This is a great help for my Singer that does not have the feature to lower my feed dogs. Wonderful tip.

  2. Laura Reply

    I’ve been using a white teflon sheet. This is MUCH better. Have ordered two. Thank you so much for making this video.

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