I figured it might be useful for quilting. I find that basting is quite
enough for garment layers of velvet, satin, etc., though.
During the second half of the 19th century, home sewers could buy
fabrics pre-quilted by machine.
Fran
Lavolta Press
www.lavoltapress.com
I got a walking foot when I machine-quilted something. The batting
changes the game entirely — even with a light spray adhesive to
"baste" the layers together, the loft of the batting will still let
the top & bottom layers shift.
If I was going to hand-baste the quilt first, I might as well
hand-quilt it. With a walking foot I can go freestyle with the stitching.
It depends on the level of accuracy desired — some people are ok with
machine quilting on a historic garment that would have been done by
hand. I assume there are 19th and 20th C garments that were originally
machine quilted.
-Carol
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