What do you use to aid in your quilting process?
How about blue painter’s tape? I have used it for the following:
- Attaching a paper bag to my sewing table to collect clipped threads and fabric bits.
- To stabilize a pattern or fusible web while tracing the pattern.
- Guide for hand or machine quilting.
- Guide for half square triangles (HST).
- Attach LED lighting for different machines (versus permanently attaching to one machine).
- Use as a design function: define a perimeter for quilt design and fill in with improv blocks or blocks of multiple sizes. Add additional blocks, fabric or sashing to complete the quilt.
- Display quilt blocks at a quilt weekend or retreat.
What other ways do you use blue tape? Leave your notes in the comments!
I just used blue tape to mark my 12″ ruler at 7.5″ so I could square up some blocks. It helps keep me on the right lines.
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I use it when pinning or basting a quilt. I tape the backing and batting to the floor.
One more quilting use for the blue tape….I tape my backing fabric to the table, floor, or deck when layering a quilt in preparation for quilting. I tape the backing tight, not stretched, to the stable horizontal surface.
Lay on the batting, spray baste (yes I spray baste), baste the batting to backing and then that to the top of the quilt. When finished I remove the tape from the backing. You have a single unit your based quilt ready to go to your domestic machine to quilt.