Any Tips please

[Vegegrow]

I'm making a Juxtapostion quilt for DD http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/quilt-patterns/quilt-throws/juxtaposition
I have never quilted something so closely before ....I'm pressing well  pining and spray sticking ... any other tips
( face fabrics are all batiks batting is cotton I think and backing is a quilting cotton)

[Iminei]

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[Vegegrow]

 a quilted with lots of close lines.. suggested 1cm apart I wanted to know where I should start ... in the middle? and direction should all the lines be in the same direction.. no replies so I went on  a you tube hunt .. no help there  so relied on google .. lets hope it works....

[fajita]

I'm no expert but I'd start in the middle and work out, alternating top to bottom, then bottom to top.

[Vegegrow]

I have already started Fajita  following this online tip from the modern quilt guild

How to work your way through your quilt:
 I recommend that when it’s possible, always work from the center out of your quilt.

If you’re simply doing vertical straight lines along the entire face of the quilt, sew your first line right down the center of the quilt and then work your way out to the right.  Then flip the whole quilt 180 degrees and repeat this process
.
  ....... lets hope it works

[fajita]

I'd also add, take regular breaks, rather than waiting til you go cross eyed, or just plain cross!

[Lowena]

Middle and outwards is what they always suggest... Ruby is the queen of close quilting 

[Vegegrow]

Sat down this morning to  stitch my next line and spotted my big mistake  so undid my 5 lines of quilting ... it had to be wrong there didn't it ....unpicked 2 lengths of blocks... turned them round checked to see if any of the patterns  were the same .. they were... unpicked and swapped them over ... re-stitched the blocks...  re-sewed the blocks to the quilt along one edge ... slip stitched the other edge ... stitched in the ditch down that seam to secure....... and breath

[maliw]

A glass of wine to help you relax?

[Vegegrow]

  ..... several Maliw as all is restored and quilting is going well I love this quilt I do hope DD likes as well

[rubywishes]

Sat down this morning to  stitch my next line and spotted my big mistake  so undid my 5 lines of quilting ... it had to be wrong there didn't it ....unpicked 2 lengths of blocks... turned them round checked to see if any of the patterns  were the same .. they were... unpicked and swapped them over ... re-stitched the blocks...  re-sewed the blocks to the quilt along one edge ... slip stitched the other edge ... stitched in the ditch down that seam to secure....... and breath

Good grief, I'm with you in soul and anguish Vegegrow!  ......and breath, and drink  Can't wait to see the finished result. Looks gorgeous.

[Vegegrow]

All done ... some of the rectangles are a bit wavy but love the  finished result

[fajita]

That's a really lovely quilt. 

[Iminei]

Beautiful!

[Ploshkin]

What gorgeous colours.  Nobody will ever notice wavy rectangles (what wavy rectangles) - quilts spend most of their life scrunched up a bit or draped somewhere.