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Prepare Your Quilt for Quilting

  • Press all seams well.  I recommend all seams pressed to one side, not open.  The threads of an open seam can be sliced through during the quilting process.  This will result in a weak spot in a seam of a block.
     

  • Ensure all seams and stitches are secure.  Please stay-stitch all biased edges and pieced boarders 1/8” to help ensure the stability of your top.
     

  • Please check wavy or ruffled borders.  Fullness or puckers will not allow a top to lay flat when quilted.  Extra pressing or reseaming - $30/hour.
     

  • Please mark the front, top and center of your quilt top and the top and center of the back with fabric safe tape or pins.  Do not baste your quilt.
     

  • Frigga Green Needle Designs will sew on a strip of cotton waste fabric (to all 4 sides) in order to reduce distortion to the edges that is commonly seen when longarm quilting.

Prepare Your Backing:

If the Backing is pieced, remove selvaged edges; all seams must be pressed to one side.  Please check that backing is square.  I recommend a ½” seam allowance when joining backing pieces.

Sew your backing with a 1/2" seam allowance

Sew your back with a 1/2" seam allowance

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Press your seams to one side

Trim off your selvedge to 1/2" seam allowance

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