There are so many different things that you need to know when you are quilting. One thing that you need to decide when quilting is if you would rather hand quilt or quilt with a machine. If you hate to hand quilt but feel like it is something that you need to do, here are some pros and cons of hand quilting to help you decide if hand quilting is really worth the work.
The first pro to hand quilting is that you can see every stitch that is being sewn. This is a pro because you can make sure that every stitch is being sewn Hand quilting can also be a con. The con of hand quilting is that you can see every stitch that is being sewn. If you see every stitch you will know if you have messed up or if one stitch is more crooked then the rest.
The second pro to hand quilting is that you can make custom designs in your quilts. If you are hand quilting your blankets you are guaranteed that there won’t be another quilt out there just like it. You can hand quilt in initials into your quilts or different designs that you can make a look of its own.
The second con to hand quilting is that it does take longer than if you quilt with a machine. Hand quilting also takes more time because it might be harder to put the needle in and out of a quilt then if you quilt on a machine.
The third pro to hand quilting is that you can see your mistakes before it is too late. This will help you to not have to unpick as much as you might if you were quilting with a machine. You will also be able to change your mind in the middle of a quilting project and add or take away something that you decide you don’t want.
The third con to hand quilting is that you might have to figure out how to make certain designs that might be easier to do with a machine quilter.
The fourth pro to hand quilting is that it is easier to get into hard to reach places that you might not be able to get into if you are quilting with a machine. For example if you are doing the edges of a quilt it might be easier to hand quilt it then to try to quilt with a machine and to get the edges to lay right.
The fourth con to hand quilting is that you might not be able to get the stitches as tight as you could if you were using a machine quilter. A machine quilter combines to threads that interlock which cause the stitches to be stronger.
There are a lot of pros and cons of hand quilting. You just have to weigh the different pros and cons of hand quilting against each other to see if it is worth the effort of hand quilting or if you should bypass hand quilting al together. Hand quilting is a personal preference that each quilter has to decide for themselves if it is worth it or not. Each quilter also has a different way of hand quilting. Some quilters will tell other quilters that they are hand quilting wrong because it is not the way that they do it. If you are going to hand quilt you will want to have a technique so that your hand quilting will be a littler easier. Just make sure that before you decide one way or the other about hand quilting being right for you that you weigh all the pros and cons of hand quilting.