Do you tack your quilts ready to hand quilt? Do you pin them? plastic tack them? What method suits you?
I have found that I can't produce a neat piece of work with out tacking, tacking and more tacking!
It's such a bore isn't it, when all you want to do is get quilting. If you have skipped this step you may have had times when you regretted it. When you turn your lovely piece of work over and see tucks and creases! Oh Noooo! What to do? unpick? start tacking? or just live with it?
Like knitting a tension square in knitting, I have found tacking an essential, though tiresome, part of producing a nice hand quilted finished item.
So next time you're tempted to speed up the process and pin your 'sandwich', put some music on and relax into some tacking! It'll be worth it in the end!
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