Video Transcript for Before Machine Quilting – Pull the Thread Up

Hi I’m Marci Baker and thanks for joining me today. I am going to share with you some tips on machine quilting and show you why I like Qtools Quilters Gloves for whenever I am doing my machine quilting.

So here were are going to be doing some free motion quilting and I have my darning foot on and I’m going to make sure that I pull my bob and thread up. I know that early on I needed to remember to do that and sometimes I forget and it makes a big birds nest underneath. What we are gonna do here is we are going to take and put the needle down and back up and I’m going to use the end of the thread and I’m going to run it underneath and get that loop and then I pull that loop and that gives me my bottom thread.

So I have both of my threads there and now I’m going to make sure that I hold on to those as I start to quilt. Now the second way to pull the thread up is go ahead and take a stitch like we did before and then I learned this from a long arm machine quilter, they move the machine, well we are going to move the quilt, pull that up, pull that thread up and then we will take this and push it right back to where we have it and then we will line that needle up and take that stitch and have needle down. Stop it with needle down.

Now as we get half the threads up at the top we are going to hold on to them tightly and then start machine quilting. A couple of other things I like about these gloves is that this is a 100 percent cotton and with the open fingers it allows my hands to stay cool while I’m quilting rather than getting really hot. And the tucks on the back give me a comfortable fit but not so tight that I feel that my wrists are being held in place. And because you have the open fingers,we can work with the thread and the scissors very easily and not have to take our gloves on and off all the time. The threads fall away very easily.

So try Qtools Quilters Gloves. I know your going to like them and I hope you enjoy your quilting.