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Hand Quilting
quilt with a running stitch. Shorter hand quilting stitches are
deemed to be better. Not to worry - even though your stitches
may start out fairly long, with practice and the right needles,
thread and thimble, your stitches will get shorter.
To prepare your quilt, the backing, batting and top must be
layered and secured. Securing the layers can be done by hand
basting with extremely long stitches, by pinning with safety
pins, or now many quilters are using plastic tabs like stores
use to attach price tags to clothes.
Hand basting takes somewhat longer to do than the other methods,
and if you are hand quilting, all of the methods are comparable.
With nickel pla...
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