OraLee

I started to free motion a quilt and didn't like the way it looked so I sat down and took out all of the stiches. Now I am hand quilting it. Has anyone ever done that before?

Lisa_wanna_b_quilter

I have not done it, but I setting here looking at a quilt I need to pull several rows of stitching out of. I'm putting it off.

AnnaK

YEP! I'm about to do that to a table runner I thought I could do cause it was a small project. I am just not good at that machine quilting stuff. This will give me something to do while we watch TV and they are Christmas presents anyway so I have lots of time.

jljack

I've heard of others doing it. I don't do FMQ on a regular machine, so I hven't had that experience. However, I think the people who do FMQ have practiced and practiced and practiced on junk pieces before they do a "real" piece. Just a suggestion, IMHO

Judy_M

I made my first quilting project. A table runner, not straight edges but with points at each end. Was sewing the binding pieces together and 3 times I sewed them together wrong. Luckly I added 10 inches to the binding when I cut them so I had enough to go around the runner. Then the mitered corners frustrated me, so I walked away from it for a couple of hours. I'll finish it later on today.

amma

I think that has happened to most of us :D:D:D

renee765

I did just the opposite. I started hand quilting a wall hanging, then decided the hand quilting just didn't fit the design, so I pulled it all out and machine quilted it. The thing that saved me was a hint given by another quilter on this board to use a small metal crochet hook to pull the stitches out with. It worked wonderfully, and I didn't snag any of the fabric. Sometimes ya just gotta listen to the quilt.

quiltluvr

I stink at FMQ so I'd only attempt hand quilting, tho' I haven't yet.

NewYearsOld

Yep! Done before. I like to call it Reverse Sew. It doesn't sound so harsh!

craftybear

ha ha